Financial Overview
We have worked hard to develop a long term, sustainable funding mix combining trading income from schools with significant multi-year partnerships with grant making trusts (GMTs) and national brands. In 2022/23, we raised £3.1 million in support of our mission to become the leading specialist provider for disengaged Key Stage 3 students.
Annual Turnover
- 2018 – £775k
- 2019/20 – £1.6m
- 2020/21- £2.1m
- 2021/22 – £2.8m
- 2022/23 – £3m
- 2023/24 (F) – £.3.3m
To ensure we continue to be sustainable while achieving impact at scale, in 2022 we set up a trading subsidiary, Youth Beyond Borders (YBB). YBB is a youth creative agency selling commercial services to brands. YBB donates all its profits to FBB and so far has donated £94,000 to support our work. In 23/24 YBB’s turnover is forecast to be £800k, meaning the total size of the ‘Beyond Borders’ group will be £4.1 million. While YBB has its own chair and Board, the FBB Trustees are ultimately accountable for the performance of YBB.
Foundational Texts
These are the 4 texts which have informed the theoretical foundations of our programme.
- Heather Geddes: Attachment in the Classroom.
- Bessel van der Kolk: The Body Keeps the Score.
- Sarah Jayne Blakemore: Inventing Ourselves, The Neuroscience of the Teenage Brain.
- Carl Rogers: On Becoming a Person.
FBB Resources
A list of our most recent published works (please click on the text to view).
FBB Reading List
These are the seminal texts which have shaped our working culture.
- Aaron Dignan: Brave New Work.
- Frederick Laloux: Reinventing Organisations.
- Hillary Cottam: Radical Help.
- Kegan and Lahey: An Everyone Culture: Building DDOs.
- Kim Scott: Radical Candour.
- Soraya Chemaly: Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger.
- Bell hooks: The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity and Love.
- Bell Hooks: All About Love.
- Johann Hari: Lost Connections.
- Owen Eastwood: Belonging: The Ancient Code of Togetherness.
- Robert Pink: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us.
- Sara Ahmed: Living a Feminist Life.
- Amy Edmondson: The Fearless Organisation
- Richard Erskine: Relational Patterns, Therapeutic Presence.
- Audre Lorde: Sister Outsider.