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.

Objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED ARE:1. THE PROMOTION OF THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CHARITIES AND THE EFFECTIVE USE OF CHARITABLE RESOURCES THROUGH:A) THE PROVISION OF SERVICES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, RESEARCH, ADVICE AND CONSULTANCY SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS, CHARITIES AND/OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS; ANDB) THE PROMOTION OF THE REPLICATION, SYSTEMISATION AND INCREASED EFFICIENCY AND REACH OF SUCCESSFUL CHARITABLE PROJECTS.2. SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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

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 (representing three months of expenditure), 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

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

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Emma Colenbrander — CEO (source)
• Alex Storey — Director (source)
• Hannah Barker — Director (source)
• Nora Dettor — Director (source)
• Tyler Spencer — Director (source)
• Nicola Little — Director (source)

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).

• Oak Foundation — “In partnership with funders like Oak Foundation , The National Lottery Community Fund and This Day , we’ve designed and delivered 10+ mu…” (source page)
• The National Lottery Community Fund — “In partnership with funders like Oak Foundation , The National Lottery Community Fund and This Day , we’ve designed and delivered 10+ mu…” (source page)
• This Day — “In partnership with funders like Oak Foundation , The National Lottery Community Fund and This Day , we’ve designed and delivered 10+ mu…” (source page)
• Health Foundation — “In 2017, we partnered with the Health Foundation to develop the Exploring Social Franchising programme.” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adarsh Parekh
• Donald Porteous
• Michael Frost
• Peter Freedman
• Ruth Ling
• Sam Owilly

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

Operates in: Camden

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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

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 SHAREDIMPACT.

• SHAREDIMPACT income £347k
• SPARK SOMERSET income £1.6m
• Spring North Ltd. income £2.8m
• THE SPRINGFIELD PROJECT income £1.7m
• SPRING HOUSING ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £15.3m
• SIMPLE REASON income £61k

Side by side with its peers

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