SPRING IMPACT

Registered charity 1153130 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ICSF, INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR SOCIAL FRANCHISING

1. Consultancy: Work with partners to help them achieve their social mission by scaling their impactthrough replication.2. Research: Contribute towards the global knowledge-base on scale up and replication. 3. Advocacy: Promote sector-wide awareness and understanding of the reasons for scaling social impact. Build eco-systems that support an organisation's social replication journey.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£3.5m
Latest spending
£3.3m
Registered
2013
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a consolidated surplus of £254,173 for the year ended 30 June 2025, with total income increasing by 5% to £3,522,146. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £1,149,953, which exceeds the stated policy minimum of approximately £900,000, providing sufficient resources to continue delivering charitable objectives.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £160,001 - £170,000 — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median £70k)
“In the band £160,001 - £170,000 1” — page 32
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Largest income source: Restricted grants (66% of income)
“The principal funding sources of Spring Impact in the reporting period were £2,318,388 from Restricted grants and £1,203,758 of contracted income for our work on scaling social impact.” — page 10
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Note 28
“During the year, Spring Impact received funding totalling £473,761 (2024 : £1,128) from the Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund. The funding was directed by Donald Porteous, a Trustee of Spring Impact, through his donor-advised account with the fund. Of the total funding received, £157,070 was recognised as income in the current year (2024: £316,691), with £nil deferred at the year end in line with the project's performance-related conditions. No amounts were outstanding to or from Mr Porteous and the funding was provided in support of restricted projects.” — page 41
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: Spring Impact (Trading) Ltd
“Spring Impact (Trading) Ltd: Spring Impact (Trading) Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of Spring Impact. The subsidiary was established to undertake trading activities and manage projects that fall outside the charitable activities of the parent charity.” — page 9
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Total income
£3.5m
Total spending
£3.3m
Cost of raising funds
£207k
Reserves (reported)
£1.1m
Employees
29

Reported reserves equal ~4.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 5.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Camden

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
30/06/2025£3.5m£3.3m
30/06/2024£3.3m£3.1m
30/06/2023£2.4m£2.6m
30/06/2022£2.8m£2.6m
30/06/2021£2.0m£2.1m

Common questions

Is SPRING IMPACT financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a consolidated surplus of £254,173 for the year ended 30 June 2025, with total income increasing by 5% to £3,522,146. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £1,149,953, which exceeds the stated policy minimum of approximately £900,000, providing sufficient resources to continue delivering charitable objectives. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP.

What does the highest-paid employee of SPRING IMPACT earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £160,001 - £170,000 band.

Who funds SPRING IMPACT?

Funders whose own accounts filings name SPRING IMPACT as a grant recipient include This Day Foundation, THE CENTRE FOR INNOVATION IN VOLUNTARY ACTION.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
This Day FoundationFY2023£1.0m
This Day FoundationFY2024£413k
This Day FoundationFY2025£400k
THE CENTRE FOR INNOVATION IN VOLUNTARY ACTIONFY2022£2kDonation

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
Sport England23/02/2021£160kScaling Support Programme
Sport England20/09/2019£575kScaling Support Programme
The National Lottery Community Fund21/09/2018£1.6mScale Accelerator

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with IMPACT INITIATIVES.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
SPRING IMPACT£3.5m£160,001 - £170,000—above—no doubt
IMPACT INITIATIVES FY2025£3.4m£70,001 - £80,0001above—no doubt
SHAREDIMPACT FY2025£347k—0unclear—no doubt
IMPACT FOUNDATION FY2025£2.2mmore than £70,0001below—no doubt
Spring North Ltd. FY2025£2.8mUnder £60,0000above—no doubt
SHAREDIMPACT FOUNDATION (UK) LIMITED FY2025£326k—0above—no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.