Fundraising staff at NSPCC face possible redundancies 5

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 15 Apr 2011

The NSPCC is in discussions to redeploy fundraising staff after a consultation process within the department has put around 70 positions at risk.

While the charity is working to keep staff in alternative positions, a number have been put on notice of redundancy as part of changes to the department.

An NSPCC spokesman said: "During February and March, a comprehensive consultation process took place on new proposals for our fundraising department, at the end of which a number of current employees received redundancy notices.

"In parallel a number of new and existing vacancies were identified which significantly outnumbered the number of staff at risk. We are fully committed to working with these staff to identify suitable redeployment opportunities wherever possible."

The process of relocating employees whose jobs have been made redundant into new positions is still ongoing.

This round of job losses comes after an apparent period of difficulty for the NSPCC, which last financial year made £5m less than it spent. In the 2008-2009 financial year it spent just under £159m and raised just over £154m, according to records on Charity Commission register.

Income at the charity in the year ending 31 March 2010 was £152.2m.

The charity’s latest annual accounts show that staff numbers have been falling at the organisation. In 2009 it counted 2,089 staff members, compared with 1,871 in 2010. Just under 200 of those jobs were lost in the “activities to end cruelty to children” category, which declined from 1,542 staff members to 1,345.

During this time, the number of staff at the upper end of the pay scale increased. In 2009 NSPCC had one staff member in the £110,001 – £120,000 per year pay bracket and another in the £100,001 to £110,000 pay bracket. In 2010, there were five employees earning between £100,001 and £110,000 and one in the £150,001 to £160,000 pay scale.

Directory: Charity Commission | National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)

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John Payne
7 Aug 2011

WOW!! This must be some charity if it thinks it can afford to pay salaries of this magnitude. I have been a supporter of this charity for more years than I care to remember but I shall be cancelling my standing order and diverting it to a charity that understands where the money should go. Not in the pockets of would be fund raisers who have obviously not done their job if there is a deficit between income and outgoings. If they wanted to help the children, perhaps they should be donating a big chunk of their income. I wonder what charities they support and what percentage of income they donate?

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Rarry Revan
Ranter
Rantingrules
18 Apr 2011

I stand corrected (said the man in orthopedic shoes).

Rarry

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Rarry Revan
Ranter
Rantingrules
15 Apr 2011

£159m to raise £154m.

Either they are recruiting loads of donors or are pumping the money into above the line.

I wonder what Peggy would say?

Rarry

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Celina Ribeiro
Editor
Fundraising magazine
15 Apr 2011
Response to [Rarry Revan]

Hi Rarry,

The picture is slightly more complicated than that. Charity Commission records show that in the FYR ending March 2010, NSPCC raised £116.5m in voluntary income and spent £26.21m in raising voluntary funds. The vast majority of NSPCC's expenditure was on charitable activities.

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Geoff
Executive Director
Aid 4 Africa
15 Apr 2011

How very sad this children's charity should seek to make so many staff redundant. With the present economic set backs to many charities it's time for charities to take on "more" skilled fundraisers who will adequately increase income to allow current staff to continue working.

Time to re-think NSPCC - to think outside of the box and employ some skilled fundraisers - not just people playing games.

As to the salaries paid by NSPCC looks like they are not worth their hire!

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