Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 13
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • All female board: -3
  • Grant maker support: +13
Overall GiG Score: 21 ?

MATERNITY ACTION 

Maternity Action works to challenge inequality and promote wellbeing for pregnant women, new mothers and their families. Maternity Action provides telephone advice and web-based information on maternity and parental rights; training for health professionals, advisers and community workers;and undertakes research, policy and campaigning.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is completely female
  • Over half the Board have joined recently
Established: 15 years

www.maternityaction.org.uk

info@maternityaction.org.uk

02072532288

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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
31/01/23£854£782£72£20£555£3705.72515
31/01/22£568£638£-70£6£483£3676.92372
31/01/21£922£590£332£0£553£3206.51772
31/01/20£416£453£-36n/an/an/an/an/a38
31/01/19£403£405£-2n/an/an/an/an/a3
31/01/18£398£299£99£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/17£238£217£21£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/16£193£133£60£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/15£173£152£21£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/14£137£166£-29£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/13£200£154£47£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/12£128£126£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/11£132£100£31£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/10£50£42£8£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 2.3%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 2.5%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 5%
Liabilities/Income: 3%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 67%
Reserves/Spending: 5.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 8 months
Quick Ratio: 13.2
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
Who works here?
  • 25 employees
  • 15 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
Access to Justice Foundation£750,500
Esmee Fairbairn£211,000
Trust for London£152,384
Joseph Rowntree Foundation£135,000
City Bridge Trust£111,200
The Legal Education Foundation£110,000
Department of Health£80,000
The Bromley Trust£60,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Access to Justice Foundation - Improving Lives Through Advice Grant
£500,000 01/03/2024
The Improving Lives Through Advice programme is made possible by a £30 million grant from The National Lottery Community Fund, thanks to National Lottery players. Working in partnership with the ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Maternity Action
£6,000 06/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Rosa UK - VftF R5-MATACT-2022
£7,000 15/12/2022
£7,000 has been awarded to Maternity Action to influence the Department of Health and Social Care to suspend charging migrant women for maternity care. A campaign video featuring anonymous stories ....more
Trust for London - Maternity Action
£10,400 29/09/2022
This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-02.02.2022-9479
Access to Justice Foundation - Help Accessing Legal Support (HALS)
£130,500 13/09/2022
Help Accessing Legal Support (HALS) is a programme of The Access to Justice Foundation with the Ministry of Justice. We are working with organisations to sustain and improve access to early social ....more
The Bromley Trust - Restricted grant towards the Maternity Care Access Advice Service (MCAAS)
£60,000 04/07/2022
Maternity Action are dedicated to promoting, protecting and enhancing the rights of all pregnant women, new mothers through specialist information, advice, advocacy and policy work. This is a three ....more
The Legal Education Foundation - JFF Host 2022
£110,000 15/06/2022
A grant to Maternity Action to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 9. Co-funded by Trust for London.
Trust for London - Maternity Action
£104,000 05/05/2022
The funding is for the continuation of policy and campaigning work to reduce pregnancy and maternity discrimination in the workplace, to strengthen legal protections for pregnant women and new ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Maternity Action
£100,000 14/04/2022
24
£100,000 over two further and final years (£49,500; £50,500) for a p/t Advice Worker (28hrs) to provide a London specific telephone advice service with additional appointment-based advice and ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Maternity Action
£20,000 18/03/2022
An unrestricted grant of £20,000 (This grant is renewable - year 2 of up to 3 years). Maternity Action delivers free, specialist advice on employment rights, maternity pay, maternity benefits and ....more
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£60,000 09/08/2021
A flexible grant as part of wave 2 of the Community Justice Fund. A pooled fund to support the specialist legal welfare advice sector in its response to COVID63
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Maternity Action
£20,000 22/04/2021
An unrestricted grant of £20,000 (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years). Maternity Action delivers free, specialist advice on employment rights, maternity pay, maternity benefits and ....more
Barrow Cadbury Trust - COVID-19 - Maternity Action
£34,000 07/10/2020
5
This grant will ensure pregnant women with low incomes and from migrant communities will have legal support and be provided advice to help them navigate affordable healthcare.
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£60,000 21/09/2020
A flexible grant as part of wave 1 of the Community Justice Fund. A pooled fund to support the specialist legal welfare advice sector in its response to COVID19
Trust for London - Maternity Action
£37,984 18/08/2020
7
The funding is for Maternity Action to establish a pro bono email advice service on employment rights for pregnant women and new parents, following COVID19. It also plans to develop a new model of ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Maternity Action
£180,000 12/05/2020
36
Towards unrestricted core costs to protect and strengthen the employment rights of low-income women.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Maternity Action
£25,000 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
Department of Health - Maternity Action
£80,000 28/04/2020
See HWA summary:Working with the VCSE sector - encourange two way flow of information and inteliigence betweeen the Sector and the System.
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Maternity Action
£15,000 23/04/2020
An unrestricted grant of £15,000. Maternity Action delivers free, specialist advice on employment rights, maternity pay, maternity benefits and the rights of migrant and asylum-seeking women using ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Maternity Action
£37,644 22/04/2020
The funding will support partnership working to increase our capacity to deliver advice on employment rights and benefits to pregnant women and new parents, a new email advice service, new online ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Maternity Action
£11,200 09/04/2020
A one-off, unrestricted grant of £11,200, equivalent to one regular quarterly payment for the organisation’s current grant. COVID19
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Grant to Maternity Action
£135,000 21/03/2020
36
Advocacy to improve access to maternity care for migrant women
The Baring Foundation - Grant to Maternity Action
£18,600 16/09/2019
The project will pilot a specialist national advice service on benefits for pregnant migrant women and pilot training for advisers and midwives.
Department of Health - Health and Wellbeing Alliance-Maternity Action
£50,000 01/04/2019
The Health & Wellbeing Alliance consists of 21 organisations from the Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector. These organisations engage in intensive co-production with system ....more
Trust for London - Maternity Action
£150,000 28/02/2019
36
The funding is for a policy and campaigning project to reduce pregnancy and maternity discrimination in the workplace, to strengthen legal protections for pregnant women and new mothers in precarious ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Maternity Action
£138,200 31/01/2019
36
£138,200 over three years (£44,800; £46,000; £47,400) for a part-time Advice Worker to provide a London specific telephone advice service with additional appointment-based advice and outreach ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Maternity Action
£10,000 24/01/2019
£10,000 towards advice and casework support to vulnerable migrant women facing charges to access NHS maternity care. Maternity Action works to improve the health and wellbeing of pregnant women, ....more
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Grant to Maternity Action
£75,000 07/07/2018
24
Policy, advocacy and campaigning project
Department of Health - Health and Wellbeing Alliance - Additional Work- Maternity Action
£40,000 01/04/2018
The aim of the Alliance will be to facilitate integrated working between the voluntary and statutory sectors.
Department of Health - Health and Wellbeing Alliance-Maternity Action
£50,000 01/04/2018
The Health & Wellbeing Alliance consists of 21 organisations from the Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector. These organisations engage in intensive co-production with system ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Maternity Action
£112,500 14/03/2018
36
towards three years' running costs of the 'Maternity Care Access Advice Service', that provides advice and support to migrant, asylum seeking and refugee women across the UK
Department of Health - HWA T2 Maternity Action
£42,800 01/04/2017
Reducing health inequalities in maternal and child health for low income women with diverse ethnic backgrounds.
Department of Health - Maternity Action
£50,000 01/04/2017
Health and Wellbeing Alliance
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Maternity Action
£10,000 24/01/2017
£10,000 towards Maternity Care Access Advice Service. Maternity Action works to improve the health and wellbeing of pregnant women, partners and young children and their services include employment ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Maternity Action
£150,000 21/12/2016
36
Towards unrestricted core costs to deliver advice and information to women on maternity rights and to campaign to protect maternity rights and benefits.
John Ellerman Foundation - Core funding - online information, helpline, casework
£80,000 24/11/2016
24
Towards the core costs of their work ensuring pregnant women and new mothers do not face discrimination and/or health inequalities.
The Baring Foundation - Grant to Maternity Action
£138,100 10/02/2016
Maternity Action will support grassroots community organisations in effectively using the law and adopting human rights approaches to ensure vulnerable migrant women obtain essential care and ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Maternity Action
£75,000 18/12/2013
Towards core costs to provide advice and information to women, their families and employers on maternity rights and campaigns on the issue.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 5/6 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 29-56
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 24/03/2009, number: 1128776
  • Registered at Companies House on 21/01/2008, number: 06478568
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment 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
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
14 returns made; all on time
Main office

Unit 4
5-7 Wells Terrace
LONDON
N4 3JU

Objectives

1 THE PROTECTION AND PROMOTION OF THE GOOD PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF PREGNANT WOMEN, NEW PARENTS AND YOUNG CHILDREN BYA) PROMOTING AND CARRYING OUT RESEARCH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND PUBLISHING OR OTHERWISE DISSEMINATING THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCHB) INCREASING AWARENESS AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE NEEDS OF PREGNANT WOMEN, NEW PARENTS AND YOUNG CHILDREN AMONGST HEALTH PROFESSIONALS, SERVICE PROVIDERS AND THE PUBLIC, IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF GUIDANCE AND TRAINING MATERIALS2 THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROVIDING INFORMATION ADVOCACY AND SUPPORT SERVICES IN PARTICULAR IN RELATION TO THE ENTITLEMENTS OF PREGNANT WOMEN AND NEW PARENTS

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase

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