Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 11
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • All male board: -3
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

HEALTH EQUALITY AND RIGHTS ORGANISATION

HERO provides LGBTQ people with accurate and credible information so they can build skills that enable them to make informed choices about their health and well-being. HERO encourages LGBTQ people to create social change in our communities by providing a platform where LGBTQ people are heard and valued.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why is the Board completely male?
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£430£240£190n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£230£283£-52n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£212£244£-31n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£263£244£19n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£231£269£-38n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£243£271£-28n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£289£398£-109n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£199£298£-98n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£88£327£-239n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£257£350£-93n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£408£541£-133n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£680£640£40£45£878£83215.680
31/03/11£759£679£80£39£838£70912.590
31/03/10£737£746£-8£105£758£67610.9110
31/03/09£719£681£38£84£766£66711.7110
31/03/08£842£652£191£110£729£63711.7110
31/03/07£622£639£-17£93£538£4147.8110
31/03/06£679£602£77n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£592£630£-38n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£566£598£-32n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 38%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Established: 25 years
(32 years as a company)

http://www.lgbthero.org.uk

hello@lgbthero.org.uk

02077386872

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Reducing racial tensions
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Greater London Authority£59,830
National Lottery Heritage Fund£43,711
National Lottery Community Fund£26,049
The London Community Foundation£22,159
McCarthy Stone Foundation£9,791
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
McCarthy Stone Foundation - 2023 Autumn Community Grants
£4,895 17/10/2023
Grants up to £7,500 to support programmes that connect and engage older people.
Greater London Authority - LGBTQ+ Votes Matter - Don't Lose it | 2023/24
£44,830 14/08/2023
LGBT HERO will work in partnership with the LGBT Consortium to deliver an outreach, training and awareness campaign. They will run in-person drop-ins, information stalls in LGBTQ+ venues, community centres, educational settings and community events ....more
McCarthy Stone Foundation - 2022 Autumn Community Grants
£4,896 07/08/2023
Grants up to £5,000 to support programmes that connect and engage older people.
Greater London Authority - LGBTQ+ Votes Matter - Don't Lose It
£15,000 13/01/2023
LGBT HERO delivered a social media awareness raising campaign for LGBTQ+ Londoners, with a focus on Trans and non-binary Londoners. They co-created resources and trained volunteers to help share the message among their peers at in-person community ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Let's talk: Suicide and stigma in the LGBTQ+ community
£8,809 22/07/2022
The funding will be used to develop and create a series of conversations to be produced on video and audio where people will discuss their experiences of suicide across the LGBTQ+ community. The project aims to give people the confidence to seek ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Health Equality and Rights Organisation
£43,711 08/06/2022
GMFA at 30 | Looking back, moving forward
National Lottery Community Fund - LGBTQ+ Domestic Violence and Abuse Project
£8,965 27/05/2021
The funding will be used to continue to continue working in partnership with LGBTQ+ communities to develop online resource working towards an awareness campaign.
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Health Equality and Rights Organisation T/a LGBT Hero
£8,133 24/11/2020
16
LGBT HERO wants to develop online digital media interventions aimed at Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans women focused on improving mental wellbeing such as anxiety/depression, tackling isolation/loneliness and increasing knowledge of services who can ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Health Equality and Rights Organisation T/a LGBT Hero
£14,026 23/04/2020
Strengthening how LGBT HERO can deliver our services online while increasing peer-support for LGBTQ+ people in London through online community forums and groupwork. To do this we need to upgrade our systems, hardware, software, and prevent extensive ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Tackling hate crime in the LGBTQ+ community
£8,275 03/04/2020
9
The organisation will use the funding to work with LGBTQ+ people to help develop resources for their website which will contribute to an awareness campaign.
Department of Health - LGBT HERO
£20,639 01/04/2019
LGBT HERO
National Lottery Community Fund - OutLife content engagement programme
£7,146 27/02/2019
12
The aim is to tackle health inequalities whilst highlighting LGBTQ rights.
National Lottery Community Fund - LGBT+ image representation project
£5,912 06/12/2017
12
This project will create an online support service for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. This will provide information relating to health and wellbeing, signposting people to relevant services.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Health Equality and Rights Organisation
£28,800 29/03/2012
the costs of the Sport and Social Groups including the salary of a part time Manager, CRB checks, volunteer expenses and overheads
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 8/9 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 38-68
  • ALAN DANIEL PALMER Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Head Of Policy And Research
  • DR RORY MCGILL Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Consultant In Public Health
  • IAN RICHARD WATTERS Appointed: 2020, Occupation: None
  • JONATHAN HAWORTH Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Journalist
  • MARK EDWARD LEWIS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Senior Advisor
  • MICHAEL HARVEY Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Operations Manager
  • ROLAND THOMAS BRUNNER Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Management Consultant
  • SHAMAL WARAICH Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Project Manager
  • TIMOTHY JAMES O'RAHILLY Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Author
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 02/08/1999, number: 1076854
  • Registered at Companies House on 31/03/1992, number: 02702133
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • 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
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; all on time
Main office

Health Equality&Rights Organisation
Unit 74
Eurolink Business Centre
49 Effra Road
LONDON

Objectives

(A) TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE PUBLIC HEALTH IN PARTICULAR AMONGST THE GAY MALE, LESBIAN, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER POPULATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. (B) TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE SUBJECTS AFFECTING THE HEALTH OF THE GAY MALE, LESBIAN, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER POPULATION INCLUDING THE CAUSES, SYMPTOMS, TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF ILLNESS IN PARTICULAR THROUGH THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH AND THE DISSEMINATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF RESEARCH.

Defined Area of Benefit:

GREATER LONDON

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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