Finance Score: 4
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 0
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

FRIENDS OF MANDRITSARA TRUST 

Provision of funds, prayers and personnel for the Good News project, including a 57-bed mission hospital, (offering surgery, X-ray, blood transfusion) and serving about 30,000 sq miles. Also a busy Community Health programme, a nursing training programme, primary and lower secondary schools, plus a Christian local radio station.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

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£538£383£155£0£446£38212110
31/12/21£338£408£-70n/an/an/an/an/a1
31/12/20£370£510£-140n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/12/19£386£411£-26n/an/an/an/an/a1
31/12/18£518£365£153£0£533£47115.5101
31/12/17£281£278£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/16£265£245£20£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/15£254£260£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/14£376£316£60£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/13£262£303£-40£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/12£265£374£-109£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/11*£257£294£-37£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/10£428£374£54£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/09£433£227£207£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/08£223£164£59£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/07£180£184£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/06£256£268£-13£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/05£183£165£18£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/04£122£105£17£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.1%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 0%
Liabilities/Income: 0%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 86%
Reserves/Spending: 12 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 14 months
Quick Ratio: 421.4
Asset Split ?
Established: 22 years

www.mandritsara.org.uk

FoMTtreasurer@mandritsara.org.uk

01480300382

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Overseas Aid/Famine Relief
  • Religious Activities
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Christian religious associations
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Madagascar,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 11 employees

Who's supporting them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 37-76
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 28/06/2002, number: 1092709
  • Registered at Companies House on 24/12/2001, number: 04345183
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR11: 23 days late,
Main office

29 Priory Road
Needingworth
ST. IVES
PE27 4SD

Objectives

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE ASSOCIATION IS ESTABLISHED ARE:-1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DOCTRINES AND PRINCIPLES OF THE PROTESTANT AND EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN FAITH.2. THE RELIEF OF ILL-HEALTH AND SICKNESS THROUGHOUT MADAGASCAR AND ELSEWHERE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
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