Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 0
  • Spending falling: -1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +5
Overall GiG Score: 5 ?

THE LEAGUE OF FRIENDS OF WEST CORNWALL HOSPITAL 

The League raises funds to provide assistance to the patients and staff of West Cornwall Hospital. The assistance usually takes the form of grants to purchase equipment at the request of the hospitals.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 62 years

01736363134

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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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
31/03/23£19£5£15n/an/an/an/an/a25
31/03/22£6£56£-50n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/21£9£2£7n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/20£20£470£-450n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/19£19£37£-18n/an/an/an/an/a25
31/03/18*£17£757£-740£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17*£15£52£-37£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£20£21£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15*£20£73£-53£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£21£53£-32£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£28£181£-153£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12*£792£305£487£3£1,210£1,21047.600
31/03/11*£72£31£42£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10*£90£171£-81£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09*£90£64£27£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£108£34£74£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£71£45£26£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06*£49£38£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£73£127£-54£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£280£37£243£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
Where it operates
  • Cornwall,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 25 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 13/07/1962, number: 208241
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • 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
  • 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
20 returns made; AR18: 366 days late, AR17: 2 days late, AR15: 0 days late, AR12: 2 days late, AR11: 1 days late, AR10: 7 days late, AR09: 3 days late, AR07: 6 days late, AR06: 0 days late, AR05: 1 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

KEMYELL HOUSE
MIDDLE KEMYELL
LAMORNA
PENZANCE
TR19 6NP

Objectives

TO MOBILISE, ENCOURAGE, FOSTER AND MAINTAIN THE INTEREST OF THE PUBLIC IN THE PATIENTS, THE WELFARE OF THE STAFF, AND THE SUPPORT OF THE WORK OF THE GROUP BY VOLUNTARY SERVICE. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE OBJECTS AND RULES)

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
CharityBase
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