GLOBAL COMPACT NETWORK UK

Registered charity 1202147 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as UN GLOBAL COMPACT NETWORK UK

Latest income
£3.7m
Latest spending
£3.6m
Registered
2023
Accounts read
FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £105,219 for the year, bringing unrestricted reserves to £365,647. The Trustees note that this amount represents approximately 2.1 months of operating expenses, which is below their stated policy target of at least 3 months. However, the Trustees remain confident that reserves will meet the policy target by the latter half of 2025.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy
As of 31 December 2024, UN Global Compact Network UK held unrestricted reserves of £365,647, representing approximately 2.1 months of the budget for 2025.
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Mercer & Hole LLP.

What the charity says about itself (2024)

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report— the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

The report states they delivered 118 engagement activities reaching over 23,000 registrations.
In 2024, we delivered 118 engagement activities for our members and the wider business community, reaching employees across the UK with a total of over 23,000 event registrations.
The report details their total emissions for 2024.
In 2024, our total emissions amounted to 100.40 tonnes CO2e, with the majority of this attributable to Scope 3 Category 1 (Purchased goods and services) and Scope 3 Category 6 (Business travel).
The report highlights a specific reduction in emissions from purchased goods.
Although this continues to represent a considerable proportion of the organisation’s footprint, a 27% decrease in category 1 emissions is observed between 2023 and 2024.
The report notes a specific outcome from partnering with Route Zero for their summit.
This resulted in 16% of our in-person participants (of which there were 500) reducing their travel emissions using the tool that was integrated into our registration webpage.

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Total income
£3.7m
Total spending
£3.6m
Cost of raising funds
£5k
Reserves (reported)
£366k
Employees
10

Reported reserves equal ~1.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Trustees

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2024£3.7m£3.6m
31/12/2023£3.3m£3.1m

Common questions

Is GLOBAL COMPACT NETWORK UK financially healthy?

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £105,219 for the year, bringing unrestricted reserves to £365,647. The Trustees note that this amount represents approximately 2.1 months of operating expenses, which is below their stated policy target of at least 3 months. However, the Trustees remain confident that reserves will meet the policy target by the latter half of 2025. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by Mercer & Hole LLP.

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