Finance Score: -7
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 7
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Good Reserves: +1Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs high: -5
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 6 ?

ACTION MEDICAL RESEARCH 

Action Medical Research is a charity whose objects are to promote medical research into the prevention, management and cure of disabling diseases and conditions. We are a UK-wide charity saving and changing children's lives through medical research. We fund a broad range of cutting-edge medical research most likely to deliver real benefit to babies, children and young people.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end but unrestricted reserves are available
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised
Established: 61 years
(69 years as a company)

www.action.org.uk

info@action.org.uk

01403210406

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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
31/12/22£6,113£7,225£-1,112£3,444£6,542£6,54210.938550
31/12/21£4,452£5,342£-890£2,426£6,804£6,80415.338764
31/12/20£3,600£4,694£-1,094£1,987£6,644£6,6441746762
31/12/19£5,612£6,233£-620£2,769£6,047£6,04711.644762
31/12/18£5,665£6,375£-710£2,804£5,766£5,76610.945762
31/12/17£5,908£6,918£-1,010£3,002£7,261£7,24812.6460
31/12/16£6,823£7,431£-608£3,359£7,949£7,83912.7500
31/12/15£7,468£8,636£-1,168£3,739£6,979£6,9799.7510
31/12/14£7,455£7,888£-433£3,601£8,326£8,32612.7500
31/12/13£7,929£7,772£157£3,497£8,309£8,30912.8490
31/12/12£6,947£7,683£-736£3,434£6,696£6,50310.2490
31/12/11£8,077£8,364£-287£4,085£7,074£6,7019.6510
31/12/10£7,157£7,876£-719£3,628£7,382£7,00910.7530
31/12/09£7,237£7,564£-327£3,239£6,443£6,0249.6530
31/12/08?£6,567£7,770£-1,203£3,193£5,436£5,4368.4520
31/10/07£6,258£6,855£-597£2,619£5,208£5,2089.1500
31/10/06£5,502£6,633£-1,132£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/05£5,407£6,012£-605£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/04£5,163£5,858£-695£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 59.6%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 49.5%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 8%
Highest pay band: £110,000-£120,000
Liabilities/Assets: 54%
Liabilities/Income: 123%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 10.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: -7 months
Quick Ratio: 0.1
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 38 employees
  • 550 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
Masonic Trust£250,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£220,000
The Shears Foundation£5,000
The Grocers' Charity£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Masonic Trust - MCF Medical Research
£250,000 20/07/2022
Establishment of The Masonic Charitable Foundation Action Medical Research Training Fellowship; helping to develop the next generation of children’s researchers.
The Shears Foundation - Action Medical Research for Children
£5,000 27/10/2021
Leukaemia: finding new treatments for when cancer comes back
The Grocers' Charity - 2021 - Action Medical Research
£5,000 24/03/2021
Towards project costs to fund researchers at UCL with The Wellcome Sanger Institute investigating whether children have specific immune cell characteristics, making them less susceptible to Covid-19 ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£220,000 14/02/2020
Reducing the Impact of Traumatic Brain Injury on Children's Lives
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Action Medical Research
£10,375 19/11/2018
We would spend funding on research undertaken at Imperial College London to find a treatment that stops women going into premature labour.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Action Medical Research
£110,000 04/08/2015
36
towards three years' research into whether exercises that strengthen calf muscles can make walking easier for teenagers with Cerebral Palsy
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Action Medical Research
£104,000 04/08/2015
24
towards two years' running costs of a project researching primary ciliary dyskinesia - restoring cilia to prevent lung damage
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Action Medical Research
£133,000 15/12/2014
36
towards three years' medical research into the causes and prevention of preterm birth
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Action Medical Research
£120,000 20/10/2014
36
towards three years' medical research towards improving diagnosis and treatment for severe anaemia
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Action Medical Research
£86,900 10/04/2014
36
towards three years' medical research investigating Perthe's disease, a destructive disease of the hip joint that affects children, especially boys
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Action Medical Research
£150,000 15/01/2014
36
towards three years' medical research investigating new treatment approaches to Mitochondrial disease which cause problems affecting the brain and muscles resulting in severe disability and ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Action Medical Research
£120,000 25/07/2013
24
towards two years' medical research investigating the link between fungi in the airways and asthma severity in children
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Action Medical Research
£120,000 22/04/2013
24
towards two years' medical research investigating the effect of epileptic discharges on the learning process in children with different types of epilepsy, and whether disruption of sleep patterns is ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Action Medical Research
£120,000 22/04/2013
24
towards two years' medical research to identify children with cystic fibrosis who would benefit from intensive early treatment to delay the onset of serious lung damage and which children could be ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Action Medical Research
£120,000 11/02/2013
36
towards three years' medical research into Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome and how it relates to Niemann-Pick type CI in relation to cholesterol in children
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Action Medical Research
£90,000 06/12/2012
36
towards three years' medical research to investigate whether a computerised training programme, designed to improve working memory, benefits children who have survived a head injury
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Action Medical Research
£70,000 19/11/2012
24
towards two years' medical research into the development of new applications or 'apps' to help develop hand and arm movements in young people affected by hemiplegic cerebral palsy
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Action Medical Research
£107,000 10/09/2012
24
towards two years' medical research to establish whether routine testing of thyroid function in pregnant women and correction of thyroid hormone deficiency could have beneficial effects on future ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Action Medical Research
£173,300 10/09/2012
36
towards three years' medical research into the development of more accurate diagnosis of Ataxias, neurological disorders of balance and co-ordination
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Action Medical Research
£94,100 10/09/2012
24
towards two years' costs of research into developing new ways to monitor drug levels in the blood of premature and new born babies to reduce the damage caused by conventional methods
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Action Medical Research
£90,000 13/06/2012
24
towards two years' medical research into finding a way to stop children with a wheeze in early years developing asthma
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 46-69
  • KAREN ANN LAST Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Independent Financial Adviser
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 12/12/1962, number: 208701
  • Registered at Companies House on 12/05/1955, number: 00549089
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; all on time
Main office

Action Medical Research
5th Floor
167-169 Great Portland Street
London
W1W 5PF

Objectives

TO PROMOTE, ENCOURAGE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE RESEARCH INTO THE PREVENTION, CURE, MANAGEMENT AND ALLEVIATION OF DISABLING DISEASES AND CONDITIONS PROVIDED THAT THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH SHALL BE DISSEMINATED FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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