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Finance Score: -4
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 8
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

THE LOSS FOUNDATION

The Loss Foundation is a registered charity providing support groups for people who have lost their loved ones to cancer or coronavirus. We provide supportive bereavement services aimed at creating regular spaces for people to share stories and experiences with others who have experienced a similar kind of loss.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years 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£68£95£-28n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£86£93£-7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£146£56£90n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£53£67£-13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£60£65£-5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£63£72£-9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£66£45£21n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£42£44£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£29£28£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
01/04/14£16£11£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
01/04/13£8£4£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 13 years

www.thelossfoundation.org

hello@thelossfoundation.org

03002004112

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Provides financial or material assistance
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Scotland, Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • 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
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
Wates Foundation£8,636
Co-Operative Group£4,670
Crowdfunder£2,723
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Online Support Groups for Individuals Bereaved by Cancer
£10,000 18/08/2023
The funding will be used to run online support groups for people who have been bereaved by cancer. The project aims to provide advice and emotional support to deal with the challenges they experience.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Loss Foundation
£4,670 22/10/2022
We wish to fund training for more volunteers so that we can double the amount of bereavement support events we are able to provide for people bereaved by cancer or Covid-19.
Crowdfunder - Local Action Fund
£2,723 29/04/2022
Covid response
Wates Foundation - The Loss Foundation
£8,636 09/07/2020
Running online bereavement courses and a peer-to-peer telephone connection service.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Loss Foundation
£9,596 19/11/2018
Funding will help us provide two retreats during 2018 to support those who have lost someone to cancer.
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£2,500 20/06/2018
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Loss Foundation
£3,237 29/11/2017
Helpprovide bereavement support groups for anyone who has lost someone to cancer in the Oxford area.
National Lottery Community Fund - Bringing People Together Through Loss
£9,200 08/02/2017
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This project will use the funding to create new engagement video materials that will raise awareness of the experiences of those who have lost people to cancer. This will improve the way in which this organisation publicises its activities.
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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

  • COLIN WARE Appointed: 2022
  • DR KIRSTEN SMITH BSC MSC Appointed: 2012
  • EDWARD LEVEY Appointed: 2018
  • KATE ROWLANDSON Appointed: 2022
  • PETER OSBORN Appointed: 2017
  • REBECCA MAHALLATI Appointed: 2017
  • SARAH BARRICK Appointed: 2018
  • SHEREEN SALLY Appointed: 2014
  • VANESSA BABOURAM (Chair) Appointed: 2021
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 22/05/2012, number: 1147362
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • 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
11 returns made; all on time
Main office

6 Welbeck Villas
Highfield Road
LONDON
N21 3HN

Objectives

TO RELIEVE THE SUFFERING OF PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE UK EXPERIENCING BEREAVEMENT OR LOSS FROM CANCER, BY PROVIDING SUPPORT FOR SUCH PERSONS.TO RELIEVE THE SUFFERING OF PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE UK EXPERIENCING BEREAVEMENT OR LOSS FROM CANCER, BY THE PROVISION OF SELF-HELP SUPPORT GROUPS.TO RELIEVE THE SUFFERING OF PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE UK EXPERIENCING BEREAVEMENT OR LOSS FROM CANCER, BY OFFERING INFORMATION ABOUT THE EXPERIENCE OF BEREAVEMENT AND HOW TO ACCESS OTHER FORMS OF SUPPORT.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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