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Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -7
Support Score: 9
  • No PartB
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • All female board: -3
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 2 ?

CARING HAIR

Caring Hair / Cancer Hair Care is the UK's leading oncology hair loss support charity . Our main service is called Cancer Hair Care which comprises of clinics, consultations, online workshops and support via our information website. We also offer educational programmes. We support adults, teenagers, young people & children. These services help people to gain confidence with how they look and feel.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
  • Why are there only 3 trustees?
  • Why is the Board completely female?
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
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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
31/01/23£147£118£28n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/01/22£155£168£-13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/01/21£156£122£34n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/01/20£120£128£-8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/01/19£107£98£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/01/18£60£70£-10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/01/17£82£87£-5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/01/16£96£100£-4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/01/15£99£53£46n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/01/14£99£110£-11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/01/13£123£74£49n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/01/12*£13£9£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 13 years

www.cancerhaircare.co.uk

Support@cancerhaircare.com

01438311322

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • General outpatient health-care services
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

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
John Lyon's Charity£80,000
Hertfordshire Community Foundation£18,421
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation£9,994
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation£4,114
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
John Lyon's Charity - Uplift grant to Caring Hair
£5,000 05/12/2022
Cost-of-Living Uplift
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Providing 180 hair-loss support packages to beneficiaries identified as very vulnerable by their primary health care professionals, building capacity in trained delivery staff, and building links in the local communities to develop culturally-specific support packages, particularly looking at the Asian community.
£9,994 15/09/2022
Cancer Hair Care Side by Side Reach Out
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - 2022 Cancer Hair Care Priority Reach Out
£3,816 10/03/2022
Grant to Caring Hair
John Lyon's Charity - Main grant to Caring Hair
£75,000 18/11/2021
Face the future - Camden
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation - Grant to Caring Hair (Cancer Hair Care)
£4,114 03/06/2020
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to provide support for 66 people experiencing cancer-related hair loss through a consultation via phone or video call and a free pack containing items most beneficial to the individual
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Hair Loss Help at Home -Supporting Hertfordshire Cancer Patients
£4,905 24/04/2020
Grant to Caring Hair
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Hair Loss Matters 2020 Hertfordshire
£9,700 08/01/2020
Grant to Caring Hair
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Hertfordshire Cancer Hair Care BME outreach
£4,983 05/03/2019
9
Grant to Caring Hair
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Urgent support for cancer support services - Hertfordshire
£4,974 03/05/2018
5
Grant to Caring Hair
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Caring Hair
£3,666 04/08/2017
We enable people with cancer to face daily life, giving them the confidence & tools to deal with hair loss including free hair kits & advice
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 49-58
  • JULIA GUPTA Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Hairdresser
  • JULIE SORREL NUNN Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Environmental Agency Manager
  • SAMANTHA ESTALL Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 03/01/2012, number: 1145258
  • Registered at Companies House on 19/01/2011, number: 07498631
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • 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
12 returns made; AR12: 60 days late,
Main office

The Caring Hair Studio
5A Middle Row
Stevenage
Hertfordshire
SG13AN

Objectives

1) TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HAIR LOSS AND OR HAIR OR SCALP PROBLEMS, IN PARTICULAR THOSE WHO HAVE LOST THEIR HAIR THROUGH CANCER TREATMENTS, BY THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT, EDUCATION AND PRACTICAL ADVICE. 2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ALL AREAS RELATED TO HAIR LOSS AND OR HAIR OR SCALP PROBLEMS THAT LEAD TO OR ARE CAUSING A DETRIMENT TO PHYSICAL AND OR MENTAL HEALTH IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAMMES FOR HAIR PROFESSIONALS AND HEALTHCARE WORKERS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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