We are tremendously grateful to all our volunteers, donors, and staff for enabling the work of Number Champions.
Since our inception, we have focused on building an operating model which minimises costs while enabling us to deliver a high quality of support to children.
We have therefore kept our staff team small, with our part-time Head of Operations, Lorraine Gerrard joining us in 2022 and our other part-time employees, Julie Cooke and Patsy Smith, joining in the subsequent two years. All other roles in the charity are performed by volunteers.
We also keep our non-staff costs very low. For example, we have no premises and we have found pro bono expert support, including for IT development and for the drafting of our legal documentation.
This enables us to charge an affordable fee to our partner schools covering about 25% of our costs, with the balance of our income coming from donations.
As we scale up, we will need more professional staff to enable us to build and manage an organisation which ultimately can support thousands of children, whilst also maintaining the quality of our service.
In due course we will also need a new staff member to take over the management tasks which are currently carried out by the founder trustees, as they progressively reduce their involvement in day-to-day operations.