PARALLEL HISTORIES

Charity Number: 1174481
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)

Charity overview

Activities - how the charity spends its money

Parallel Histories is a UK educational charity, founded in 2017, to improve the life chances of disadvantaged young people and promote social cohesion through innovation in humanities teaching. We empower teachers to teach controversial history by providing training, educational resources, and debating for young people. Through these three main activities, we work with over 1110 secondary schools.

Income and expenditure

Data for financial year ending 31 March 2024

Total income: £107,800
Total expenditure: £119,053

People

7 Trustee(s)

5 Volunteer(s)

Employees with total benefits over £60,000

No employees have total benefits over £60k for this charity

Fundraising

No information available

Trading

This charity does not have any trading subsidiaries.

Trustee payments

One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity.

What, who, how, where

What the charity does:
  • Education/training
Who the charity helps:
  • Children/young People
How the charity helps:
  • Provides Advocacy/advice/information
Where the charity operates:
  • Throughout England

Governance

Registration history:
  • 01 September 2017: CIO registration
Organisation type:
CIO
Other names:

No other names

Gift aid:
Recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Land and property:
This charity does not own and/or lease land or property

Trustees

Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service

7 Trustee(s)

Name Role Date of appointment Other trusteeships Reporting status of other trusteeships
Tim Ramsey Chair 19 April 2023
None on record
William Albion Trustee 20 March 2024
None on record
Sana Tariq Trustee 19 April 2023
None on record
Harry Edmondson Trustee 19 April 2023
None on record
Paul Franek Trustee 18 January 2023
None on record
Clare O'Sullivan Trustee 17 April 2020
None on record
PATRICK TAYLOR Trustee 01 September 2017
None on record

Financial history

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Financial period end date

Income / Expenditure 31/03/2020 31/03/2021 31/03/2022 31/03/2023 31/03/2024
Total gross income £55.45k £70.15k £131.80k £120.16k £107.80k
Total expenditure £29.57k £52.21k £93.59k £131.26k £119.05k
Income from government contracts N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Income from government grants N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Accounts and annual returns

This table shows the charity's record of submitting annual returns, accounts and trustees' annual report (TAR) for the last five financial periods.
Title Reporting year Date received Received Download
Annual return 31 March 2024 28 January 2025 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2024 28 January 2025 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 March 2023 24 January 2024 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2023 24 January 2024 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 March 2022 14 June 2022 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2022 14 June 2022 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 March 2021 15 July 2021 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2021 15 July 2021 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 March 2020 15 June 2020 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2020 15 June 2020 On Time Download Open in new window
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Governing document

Details of the type of governing document the charity has and when it was established.
It is not the full text of the charity's governing document.

CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 01 Sep 2017

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN CONTROVERSIAL HISTORY TOPICS* BY RESEARCHING AND CREATING FREE EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS, INCLUDING INTERACTIVE VIDEOS AND DISTRIBUTING TO TEACHERS. * FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE CONTROVERSIAL HISTORY TOPICS ARE TOPICS WHICH ARE DISPUTED BY HISTORIANS, HAVE PARTISAN INTERPRETATIONS AND MAY CAUSE AN EMOTIONAL RESPONSE FROM LEARNERS.

Contact information

Address:
1 The Brickett
Sheering Road
Hatfield Heath
BISHOP'S STORTFORD
Hertfordshire
CM22 7LJ
Phone:
07718101000
Email:
bill@parallelhistories.org.uk
Website:

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