Finance Score: 1

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 3

Liabilities <10%: +3
Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -2 times

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +3

Overall GiG Score: 13

THE FOUNTAIN CENTRE

The Fountain Centre aims to enable cancer patients and others with similar chronic illnesses, and their families to regain control of their lives by empowering them with information and support. We offer a wide range of complementary therapies, group classes and counselling.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
This charity has a robust balance sheet
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

Liquidity appeared to be in excess of CC guidelines at the latest year end but spending has been increasing rapidly
Accounts have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/12/22		£580	£505	£76	£57	£805	£634	15.1	0	75
31/12/21		£122	£231	£-109	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	70
31/12/20	*	£520	£358	£163	£39	£867	£738	24.8	0	80
31/12/19		£394	£377	£17	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	117
31/12/18	*	£345	£362	£-17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	119
31/12/17		£531	£303	£228	£43	£692	£629	24.9	10	0
31/12/16		£368	£317	£52	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/15		£312	£315	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/14		£191	£248	£-56	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/13		£200	£240	£-41	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/12		£273	£224	£48	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/11		£183	£158	£26	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/10		£236	£219	£16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/09		£149	£138	£11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/08		£109	£93	£16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/07	*	£149	£92	£56	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/06		£100	£126	£-26	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/05		£127	£76	£51	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/04		£143	£67	£77	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 12.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 12%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 6%
Liabilities/Income: 8%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 79%
Reserves/Spending: 15.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 10 months
Quick Ratio: 8.9

Asset Split ?

Established: 23 years

www.fountaincentre.org

rsc-tr.fountaincentre@nhs.net

01483406618

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

GiG Classification

Community services

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides human resources
Provides services

Where it operates

Surrey,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
75 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Major supporters in last 5 years

Sport England	£5,000
Co-Operative Group	£4,412
Community Foundation for Surrey	£1,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Community Foundation for Surrey - Funding towards the essential running costs of a charity, based in Guildford, that offers support to people suffering with cancer
£1,000	31/01/2024 11.774193548387	Funding towards the essential running costs of a charity, based in Guildford, that offers support to people suffering with cancer
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Fountain Centre
£4,412	23/10/2021	We would like to provide additional counselling for cancer patients and oncology staff who are dealing with the psychological impact of delayed diagnosis and treatment due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Sport England - Cancer Exercise Pilot Programme
£5,000	11/02/2020 11	Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Cancer Exercise Pilot Programme. This project lists its main activity as Exercise & Fitness
National Lottery Community Fund - Fountain Centre (FC) Children and Family Cancer Support Service
£326,194	31/05/2017 60	This group will develop their project to provide counselling and support for children and young people whose parents have been diagnosed with cancer, with an aim of improving the mental and emotional ....more This group will develop their project to provide counselling and support for children and young people whose parents have been diagnosed with cancer, with an aim of improving the mental and emotional wellbeing in these families, from diagnosis, through treatment and beyond. The group will offer workshops in senior schools and run after school sessions for those who are affected by a cancer diagnosis in the family. The project will recruit a specialist play therapist, to work with the youngest affected.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 41-80

DR JANICE EVELYN WHITBY Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Retired

MRS MONICA JANE SIMPSON (PREVIOUSLY ROWL

MATT JARRATT Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Assistant Director Of Operations

NIGEL ANTHONY HOBSON (Chair) Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Consultant

DIANA ROBERTS Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Director

DOUGLAS EDWARD CLARK HUDSON Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Company Director

MARTIN READ Appointed: 2008, Occupation: Business Consultant

MARK IAN MERRYWEATHER Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Chartered Accountant, Other trusteeships: THE MARINDIN HALL, FRIENDS OF THE ABBEY SCHOOL, THE MARINDIN HALL,

VICTORIA MUMFORD Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Divisional Head Of Nursing

WYN ROBERTS Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeship: HART VOLUNTARY ACTION LIMITED,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 26/10/2001, number: 1089086
Registered at Companies House on 14/12/2000, number: 04125713

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Investment
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

19 returns made; AR20: 46 days late, AR18: 46 days late, AR07: 18 days late,

Main office

The Fountain Centre
Royal Surrey County Hospital
Egerton Rd
Guildford
GU2 7XX

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF PATIENTS SUFFERING FROM CANCER AND OTHER SIMILAR CHRONIC ILLNESSES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

GUILDFORD AND SURROUNDING AREA

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