# What do you do when the Charity Commission accounts don't list recipients of grants?

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/01/28/what-do-you-do-when-charity-commission-accounts-don039t-list-recipients-grants/
- Published: 2009-01-28T10:10:27+00:00
- Author: Finbar Cullen

I was recently researching grant-making trusts for a client. In most cases, I could
obtain the information I need from the Charity Commission website, Guidestar UK 
and/or the trust’s own website. In a few instances I wrote to the trust for a list
of recipients, as this information was not always included in the accounts on the
websites. The Eranda Foundation sent me a list of recipients, but The Hedley Foundation
is no longer prepared to do so. While I appreciate I am being a bit of a nuisance,
and putting the administrator to more work, the full list can be very helpful. According
to its website, The Hedley Foundation (www.hedleyfoundation.org.uk) will fund the
education of young people. A copy of the list would indicate that they don’t tend
to fund universities or colleges as they think that “these are usually very well
endowed with funds”. Fair enough(unless you are trying to raise funds for a university,
but this is not mentioned on the website, and we are currently unable to obtain 
a full list of recipients of grants. Er, this might result in more work for the 
administrator … Hey ho!

Finbar Cullen

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## Comments

### By: Les

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/01/28/what-do-you-do-when-charity-commission-accounts-don039t-list-recipients-grants/#comment-3512
- Published: 2009-01-28T14:56:43+00:00

The origin of this “problem” is the Statement of Recommended Practice which is the
framework of charity reporting. Going back 5 years ago grantmaking trusts were required
to list all grants made (with some limits) – this reporting requirement has changed
and made trusts do the bare minimum. In 2004 we built the Guidestar UK data capture
system using the old rules – which means, where trusts list grant recipients, we
capture this information in our database and it appears on the website e.g. 
 [http://www.guidestar.org.uk/gs\_activities.aspx?CCReg=xvrmO7TR5ysS0LP8pi%2bkng%3d%3d&strQuery=esmee%20fairbairn#gra](http://www.guidestar.org.uk/gs_activities.aspx?CCReg=xvrmO7TR5ysS0LP8pi%2bkng%3d%3d&strQuery=esmee%20fairbairn#gra)

In addition we capture the source of funding where it is reported in the accounts–
so for the Holgate Windmill Preservation Society we capture EsmeFairbairn as a source
of funding – see link below. We not only capture grants from grantmakers but also
along local authority grants / conracts, business donations etc – where the name
of the source is stated in the accounts. 
 [http://www.guidestar.org.uk/gs\_summary.aspx?CCReg=1106115&strQuery=Holgate%20Windmill%20Preservation%20Society](http://www.guidestar.org.uk/gs_summary.aspx?CCReg=1106115&strQuery=Holgate%20Windmill%20Preservation%20Society)
Please note, we do not present this information on the free website but we do offer
this as a service through GuideStar Data Service [http://www.gs-ds.co.uk/grantmakers.aspx](http://www.gs-ds.co.uk/grantmakers.aspx)(
FYI rather than a blantant plug for business!!).

Sadly, these two sets of data do not tie up – on theone hand grantmakers not providing
a list and some grant recipients not specifying all sources of funding e.g. Museuem
of Law Trust only reports an overall heading for grants recieved.

Which all means – that we are able to identify SOME of the organisations in receipt
of grants from a particlar grantmaker – either from the source or the beneficiary
end of the transaction.