The 113 members on Beam's website have been referred from 30 partners:

Here are the career goals for our 113 members so far:

Beam is a partnership between two organisations:

• The Beam Foundation - a registered charity that receives all donations and pays for items in the campaign budgets.
• Beam Up Ltd - a social enterprise which supports Beam members into work and builds technology.

To read about how this works, read our FAQ.

Funding

Beam collects a 10% service fee on donations. However, this leaves a significant shortfall in the cost of delivering the service which has been made up by foundations and private funders:

• Greater London Authority
• Nesta
• UnLtd
• UFI
• Social Tech Trust
• Three Oaks Trust
• 13 individual funders

Spending

In 2018, the Beam Foundation's spending totalled £125,558. This breaks down as follows:

• £106,070 spent on campaign items
• £19,488 paid to Beam Up Ltd for Beam's support costs
• A further £86,785 is reserved for future expenditure on campaign items (for example, training that hasn't started yet)

All of this spending was funded by donations.

In 2018, Beam Up Ltd's spending totalled £273,324. This breaks down as follows:

• £82,678 member support staff costs
• £158,921 technology and admin staff
• £4,289 technology costs
• £27,436 other admin costs

This spending was mainly funded by our funders with a small amount covered by the 10% service fee on donations.

Financial accounts

Our public financial accounts are below:

  Beam Up Limited
  The Beam Foundation