Finance Score: -4

Governance Score: 8

Support Score: 8

Pension deficit: -1
Spending declining: -1
Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
Fundraising costs low: +3

12+ Trustees: -1
Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +8

Overall GiG Score: 12

LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE

Research into Tropical Diseases, Education, Training and Technical Assistance.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There are 14 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12

Financial issues to consider:

There is a pension deficit of £20,065,000
Spending is declining
Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

Established: 61 years
(119 years as a company)

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Y/E	Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/07/23	£154,796	£146,898	£7,898	£328	£55,676	£25,870	2.1	805	3
31/07/22	£196,652	£203,314	£-6,662	£205	£47,863	£19,075	1.1	714	4
31/07/21	£210,339	£205,548	£4,791	£271	£55,323	£27,629	1.6	701	4
31/07/20	£228,069	£216,092	£11,977	£108	£48,608	£25,044	1.4	650	4
31/07/19	£242,674	£254,916	£-12,242	£82	£38,986	£15,293	0.7	667	23
31/07/18	£232,397	£227,449	£4,948	£60	£50,183	£30,763	1.6	634	0
31/07/17	£111,496	£110,029	£1,467	£216	£45,801	£29,514	3.2	508	0
31/07/16	£78,358	£75,281	£3,077	£78	£40,413	£25,541	4.1	490	0
31/07/15	£73,066	£69,898	£3,168	£115	£67,168	£21,308	3.7	432	0
31/07/14	£65,390	£63,149	£2,241	£105	£61,526	£17,920	3.4	408	0
31/07/13	£59,994	£57,803	£2,191	£118	£57,092	£15,610	3.2	355	0
31/07/12	£57,716	£55,637	£2,079	£138	£52,913	£12,903	2.8	329	0
31/07/11	£53,524	£52,970	£554	£152	£51,080	£10,484	2.4	317	0
31/07/10	£52,525	£51,161	£1,364	£163	£43,890	£9,900	2.3	298	0
31/07/09	£40,205	£39,346	£859	£121	£39,401	£8,058	2.5	274	0
31/07/08	£42,200	£40,638	£1,562	£61	£38,083	£7,567	2.2	261	0
31/07/07	£29,520	£29,078	£442	£51	£33,241	£6,404	2.6	222	0
31/07/06	£19,514	£18,999	£515	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/07/05	£14,813	£14,216	£597	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/07/04	£13,632	£12,868	£764	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.3%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.3%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 8%
Highest pay band: £250,000-£300,000
Liabilities/Assets: 58%
Liabilities/Income: 69%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 46%
Reserves/Spending: 2.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 0.6

Asset Split ?

Listed activities

Education/Training
Other Charitable Purposes
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Other charitable activities
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides human resources
Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Angola, Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Benin, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, China, Colombia, Congo (Democratic Republic), Costa Rica, Denmark, East Timor, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Fiji, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guinea, India, Indonesia, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Liverpool City, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritius, ....more

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

805 employees
3 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

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy	£15,901,441
Garfield Weston Foundation	£200,000
National Lottery Heritage Fund	£144,973

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
£144,973	18/08/2022	LSTM – Past, Present and Future
Garfield Weston Foundation - Major Grants award
£200,000	01/10/2021	Pembroke House
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Addressing the Social Determinants and Consequences of Tuberculosis (ASCOT): a pilot randomised controlled trial and process evaluation in Nepal
£201,523	01/03/2021	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR/V004832/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Preemptive discovery of insecticide cross-resistance mechanisms for next generation malaria control products
£769,618	01/02/2021	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR/V001264/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Intermittent preventive treatment with dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine: a new malaria strategy to prevent adverse birth outcomes in Papua, Indonesia
£970,244	01/01/2021	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR/T038489/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Exploiting glycosylation against COVID-19
£185,675	04/12/2020	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=BB/V017772/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Anti-viral transparent adhesive protection for Touch Screens to help in the fight against COVID-19
£47,802	01/12/2020	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=85336
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Menstrual health solutions for out-of-school adolescent girls
£421,545	01/10/2020	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR/T04036X/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Delivering Integrated Solutions for Human Infections
£12,081,101	01/09/2020	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=107136
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - 19-BBSRC-NSF/BIO Bacterial and host genetic factors contributing to microbiome acquisition and homeostatis in mosquitoes
£706,561	01/08/2020	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=BB/V011278/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - COVID 19 Grant Extension Allocation Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
£268,229	01/07/2020	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP/V521073/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - How to embed and sustain project-initiated improvements in research capacity: good practice recommendations
£120,885	01/06/2020	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP/T024828/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Enabling optimal antimicrobial use in East Africa
£128,259	01/06/2020	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP/T024984/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Indoor behaviour maps to guide arbovirus vector control
£634,237	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=MR/T001267/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Kenya Quality Model for Community Health: a unique model for quality improvement in Antenatal Care
£151,617	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=MR/T003324/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Development of a complex quality improvement intervention for timely blood transfusions for the management of post-partum haemorrhage in Africa
£151,029	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=MR/T00326X/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ReMOT Control: Development of a flexible toolkit for the genetic manipulation of insects
£575,654	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=BB/T001240/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Tropical Infectious Disease Consortium: Expanding and Accelerating Product Development
£540,000	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=MC_PC_18055
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - KC Jambo, Malawi College of Medicine - Defining changes in nasal immunity that favour propensity for pneumococcal colonisation in HIV-infected adults
£764,636	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=MR/T008822/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Tropical Infectious Disease Consortium (TIDC) Confidence in Concept 2019
£597,600	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=MC_PC_19045
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - New advances in insecticide resistance genomics: using Machine Learning to predict resistance phenotype from large-scale genomic data.
£515,683	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=MR/T001070/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - E Ochodo, Stellenbosch University, Evidence synthesis for building a translation pipeline to eliminate infectious diseases
£759,572	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=MR/T008768/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Improving malaria risk assessment in Blantyre district, Malawi by optimizing Anopheles surveillance using open-source and real-time data
£292,355	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=MR/T031743/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Preparation for the Randomised Evaluation of a VItamin C bundle for Sepsis Treatment in Africa (REVISTA-Prep)
£151,029	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=MR/T004045/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Healthy survival after tuberculosis
£293,539	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=MR/T040165/1
Department for International Development - To provide systematic reviews and high-level summaries of reliable evidence for global health decision-making bodies (Research, Evidence and Development Initiative (READ-It)
£1,225,761	01/04/2019	Ross fund portfolio Implementation research into infectious diseases
Department for International Development - Reducing Maternal and Newborn Deaths in Kenya - Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
£952,492	01/04/2019	Reducing Maternal and Newborn Deaths in Kenya
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
£60,500	29/11/2018	The Secret Art of Survival
Garfield Weston Foundation - Major Grants award
£100,000	19/09/2018	LSTM's Active Learning Space
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - ENABLES: Enabling Livestock-keepers to Eliminate Sleeping Sickness
£387,127	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=BB/S01375X/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - GCRF Accountability for Informal Urban Equity Hub
£12,156,515	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=ES/S00811X/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Male partner-assisted contact tracing for HIV and tuberculosis in Malawi: an adaptive multi-arm multi-stage randomised trial (mPATCH-TB)
£112,515	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=MR/R019762/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - MICA: Pre-Clinical Development of a Small Molecule anti-Wolbachia Candidate Macrofilaricide Drug
£1,490,692	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=MR/R025401/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Developing a cocktail of enzyme inhibitors to universally treat haemotoxicity caused by snakebite
£492,569	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=MR/S00016X/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - MICA: New combination therapy against MDR TB targeting the respiratory chain
£947,594	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=MR/S00467X/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Drivers of Resistance in Uganda and Malawi: The DRUM Consortium
£3,046,155	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=MR/S004793/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - An investigation of interventions to increase uptake of HIV self-testing and linkage to post-test services among higher education students in Zimbabwe
£737,248	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=MR/S005307/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Non-communicable lung disease in Kenya: from burden and early life determinants to participatory inter-disciplinary solutions
£484,409	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=MR/S009027/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Development of PK/PD Model Platforms to Support the Optimal Deployment of New Drug Combinations for the Treatment of Malaria
£292,947	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=MR/S020411/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Lung health after pulmonary TB: designing strategies to improve long-term patient outcomes
£292,941	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=MR/S02042X/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Network of European and African Researchers on Antimicrobial Resistance (JPIAMR)
£44,356	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=MR/S037640/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Research England research Capital England 1819
£2,012,344	01/04/2018	To support high quality research
Department for International Development - Support to the Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases CNTD Through an Accountable Grant With the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
£4,496,012	01/04/2018	Support for the Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) 2009-2019
Department for International Development - Reducing Maternal and Newborn Deaths in Kenya Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
£1,305,439	01/04/2018	Reducing Maternal and Newborn Deaths in Kenya
Department for International Development - To provide systematic reviews and highlevel summaries of reliable evidence for global health decisionmaking bodies Research1 Evidence and Development Initiative READIt
£766,327	01/04/2018	Ross fund portfolio Implementation research into infectious diseases
Department for International Development - Strategic monitoring and evaluation fund
£157,237	01/04/2018	Results and Research Impact Programme (RRIP)
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Integrating data from multiple African countries to identify and validate novel insecticide resistance candidates in the malaria vector An. gambiae sl
£96,886	15/11/2017	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=MR/R024839/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - H Mwandumba, CoM, Characterisation of the breakdown in immune competence of the lung that favours development of tuberculosis in HIV-infected adults
£191,239	01/09/2017	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=MR/P020526/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Intravenous fluid for adults with sepsis in sub-Saharan Africa: developing the design of an randomised controlled trial
£66,815	02/05/2017	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=MR/P020577/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Epidemiological consequences of reproductive senescence in a long-lived vector
£193,436	01/04/2017	To support high quality research
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Using spatial statistics and genomics to develop epidemiologically relevant definitions of insecticide resistance in African Malaria Vectors
£251,517	01/04/2017	[Placeholder]
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - A vector excreta surveillance system (VESS) to support the rapid detection of vector-borne diseases
£254,359	01/04/2017	[Placeholder]
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Lung health in Africa across the life course
£303,046	01/04/2017	[Placeholder]
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Health in a changing climate: the dynamic challenge of snake bite in South Asia
£256,336	31/03/2017	[Placeholder]
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Accelerating Product Development in Global Health
£62,500	01/03/2017	[Placeholder]
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Durable, practical, effective and affordable formats for insecticide-treated eave baffles that protect households and suppress malaria transmission
£75,600	01/03/2017	[Placeholder]
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Tropical Infectious Disease Consortium: Expanding and Accelerating ProductDevelopment
£274,500	01/03/2017	[Placeholder]
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - The Friendship Bench for adolescents: evaluating strategies for scaling interventions to treat common mental disorders among adolescents in Zimbabwe
£280,134	01/02/2017	[Placeholder]
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
£343,700	09/06/2016	Galkoff's and the Secret Life of Pembroke Place
Indigo Trust - Further IntHEC work
£4,695	18/02/2013	To hold a stakeholder/review and orientation meeting together with the District Medical Office in Tanzania as part of the wider IntHEC programme.
Indigo Trust - IntHEC SMS Project
£14,920	24/04/2012	To allow the school to design, build and test an SMS system aimed at improving uptake of sexual and reproductive health services in the Mwanza area of Tanzania.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (14)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 12/14 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 35-69

ANDREW LAURENCE DENNIS WRIGHT Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Retired

CATHERINE WEST MP Appointed: 2022

DR HELEN SAVAGE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Student

ISABELLE INGRID ETOKE Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Senior Programme Officer

JAMES ANTHONY P MCKENNA (Chair) Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Retired

JOANNE DODD Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Certified Chartered Accountant/Business Owner

JOHN O'BRIEN Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Retired

JONATHAN BALL Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Deputy Director

MARK ALLANSON Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Pro Vice Chancellor University

PROFESSOR DAVID GRIFFITH LALLOO Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Director, Other trusteeship: LIVERPOOL LIFE SCIENCE ACCELERATOR LIMITED,

PROFESSOR NEIL FREDERICK SQUIRES Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Doctor

PROFESSOR NYOVANI MADISE Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Researcher

PROFESSOR SABINA RASHID Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Teaching

SUSAN RUSSELL Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Solicitor, Other trusteeship: EVERTON IN THE COMMUNITY,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 11/10/1963, number: 222655
Registered at Companies House on 30/01/1905, number: 00083405

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Other Regulators

Estyn: Her Majesty's Inspectorate For Education And Training In Wales

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
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

Filing Record

20 returns made; all on time

Main office

LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICI
PEMBROKE PLACE
LIVERPOOL
L3 5QA

Objectives

1) TO ENGAGE IN, PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE RESEARCH, STUDY AND INSTRUCTION IN CONNECTION WITH THE ORIGIN, CHARACTER, ALLEVIATION, PREVENTION AND CURE OF EVERY OR ANY TYPE OF TROPICAL DISEASE WHICH IS NOW OR MAY HEREAFTER BECOME KNOWN IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD WHERE SUCH DISEASE EITHER MANIFESTS ITSELF OR HAS EFFECTS; AND TO2) ADVANCE AND ENCOURAGE LEARNING AND THE PRACTICE OF ALL SCIENCES AND ARTS ALLIED WITH OR WHICH MAY BE USEFULLY STUDIED IN CONNECTION WITH THE MATTERS AFORESAID, AND TO COLLECT AND CIRCULATE INFORMATION WITH REGARD TO SUCH DISEASES, SCIENCES AND ARTS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

WORLDWIDE

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