Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 8
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

NATIONAL AXIAL SPONDYLOARTHRITIS SOCIETY

Providing information to the general public about the Condition and providing support and advice to people living with the Condition, their families, carers, service providers and employers. Advocating to ensure that every person has timely and effective diagnosis, treatment and care of the Condition. Funding and disseminating research into the management and cure of axial SpA and its causes.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

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 £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/12/23£1,028£1,158£-131£113£1,038£7337.612250
31/12/22£1,027£1,519£-492£185£1,179£7706.113250
31/12/21£1,182£1,138£44£118£1,722£1,10311.613250
31/12/20£829£1,164£-334£151£1,655£1,17512.114270
31/12/19£2,226£236£1,989£33£1,989£1,62782.711285
Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 14.3%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 10.7%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 11%
Highest pay band: £100,000-£110,000
Liabilities/Assets: 31%
Liabilities/Income: 45%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 71%
Reserves/Spending: 7.6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 7 months
Quick Ratio: 4.9
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 6 years

www.nass.co.uk

admin@nass.co.uk

02087411515

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Outpatient support services
How it operates
  • Makes grants to individuals
  • Makes grants to organisations
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • People With Disabilities

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
Garfield Weston Foundation£30,000
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy£18,086
DCMS£9,750
National Lottery Community Fund£9,172
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 25/10/2023
NASS Information and Support Programme: Improving the physical health, mental wellbeing and social welfare of people with axial SpA
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 22/04/2022
NASS Self-Management Programme: Improving the health outcomes among axial SpA patients
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - National Axial Spondyloarthritis Society (NASS) - 03/11/21
£1,500 08/12/2021
Core Funding
National Lottery Community Fund - A new education event to improving health outcomes for AS patients in Newcastle
£9,172 11/06/2021
The project will use the funding to deliver an education day event for local Axial Spondyloarthritis (AS) patients many of whom are shielding. This will provide participants with tailored support exercise plans self-management skills and coping ....more
Cumbria Community Foundation - Donor directed
£500 21/04/2021
Donor directed - Pool hire and physio costs
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Computer-Vision aided community back pain Physiotherapy services
£18,086 01/10/2020
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=79429
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,750 03/08/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • ALEXIA KATHERINE DREESE GRANATT Appointed: 2022
  • CLAIRE JEFFRIES Appointed: 2020
  • DR ANTONI TUCK YIN CHAN Appointed: 2020
  • DR HASAN IMAM SYED TAHIR Appointed: 2022
  • DR LESLEY JANE KAY Appointed: 2021
  • DR RAJ AMARNANI Appointed: 2024
  • GILLIAN EAMES Appointed: 2019
  • HANNAH ELIZABETH MURPHY Appointed: 2021
  • NICHOLAS REID Appointed: 2022
  • PAUL CURRY Appointed: 2019
  • RAJEEVENDRA KUMAR MAHAPATRA (Chair) Appointed: 2019
  • RACHEL DAVIS Appointed: 2023
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 29/04/2019, number: 1183175
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
  • 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
5 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from THE NATIONAL ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS SOCIETY on 11/11/2021
Main office

NASS
Unit 6
Cambridge Court
210 Shepherds Bush Road
LONDON
W6 7NJ

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH AMONG PEOPLE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM LIVING WITH THE MEDICAL CONDITION AXIAL SPONDYLOARTHRITIS WHICH INCLUDES ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS (TOGETHER KNOWN AS THE ‘CONDITION’) IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY: A) PROVIDING INFORMATION TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC ABOUT THE CONDITION AND PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ADVICE TO PEOPLE LIVING WITH THE CONDITION, THEIR FAMILIES, CARERS, SERVICE –PROVIDERS AND EMPLOYERS; B) ADVOCATING TO ENSURE THAT EVERY PERSON HAS TIMELY AND EFFECTIVE DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT AND CARE OF THE CONDITION; C) FUNDING AND DISSEMINATING RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS TO ADVANCE SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING OF THE CONDITION AND ITS EFFECTIVE TREATMENT.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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