Finance Score: -4
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 4
  • Excess liquidity: -1
  • Pension deficit: -1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly male board: -1
  • Grant maker support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 0 ?

THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS 

The object of the College is:"To encourage, foster and maintain the highest possible standards in general medical practice and for that purpose to take or join with others in taking any steps consistent with the charitable nature of that object which may assist towards the same."Further details can be found in the annual report
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
  • The Board is predominantly male
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appeared to be in excess of CC guidelines at the latest year end especially considering the historic stability of income
  • There is a pension deficit of £415,000
  • 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
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£46,216£42,487£3,729£5,463£65,729£64,45218.2259700
31/03/22£39,798£35,182£4,616£4,055£64,762£63,66021.7250700
31/03/21£36,584£34,811£1,773£2,280£55,346£53,87718.6269225
31/03/20£43,373£44,184£-811£6,892£52,192£50,68913.8327228
31/03/19£43,655£45,736£-2,081£6,862£52,540£48,57312.7317225
31/03/18£44,174£43,595£579£7,260£53,317£47,160132930
31/03/17£43,072£40,077£2,995£5,238£50,460£44,29213.32740
31/03/16£43,532£41,618£1,914£5,624£52,768£47,12613.62650
31/03/15£41,883£40,150£1,733£5,318£49,425£40,56912.12630
31/03/14£39,728£37,465£2,262£4,113£49,924£41,63813.32670
31/03/13£36,172£34,232£1,940£1,893£48,358£40,24114.12800
31/03/12£33,017£33,463£-446£556£46,578£39,030142700
31/03/11£67,908£31,563£36,345£659£49,839£40,94715.62670
31/03/10£29,985£27,677£2,308£616£12,810£4,54722540
31/03/09£28,775£25,690£3,085£554£9,678£2,9351.42520
31/03/08£24,909£23,121£1,788£428£10,465£2,7571.42290
31/03/07*£19,267£18,665£602£394£6,548£-773-0.52110
31/03/06£16,923£17,401£-478£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£16,180£15,980£200£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£15,290£14,323£967£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 14.8%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 13%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 8%
Highest pay band: £130,000-£140,000
Liabilities/Assets: 34%
Liabilities/Income: 73%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 98%
Reserves/Spending: 18.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 0.9
Asset Split ?
Established: 61 years

http://www.rcgp.org.uk/

ChiefOperatingOfficer@rcgp.org.uk

02031887400

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Professional associations
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Makes Grants to Individuals
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 259 employees
  • 700 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
Sport England£99,239
Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation£5,000
Home Office£3,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation - Grant to Royal College of General Practitioners, Junior International Committee (Beyond Europe Team)
£5,000 25/11/2022
Travel support for three early career GPs from Japan to be paired with three UK counterparts forming teams to be supervised by mentors providing academic and pastoral support as they work on a ....more
Home Office - Royal College of General Practitioners
£3,000 14/02/2022
This grant will allow The Royal College of General Practitioners to remove the paywall for their e-learning module on Prevent. By removing the paywall and enabling access to non-membership users, we ....more
Sport England - Physical Activity and Lifestyle Clinical Priority project
£99,239 27/07/2021
49
Funding under Sport England's Active Ageing funding programme for a Revenue project titled Physical Activity and Lifestyle Clinical Priority project. This project lists its main activity as Sport ....more
Sport England - Physical Activity and Lifestyle Clinical Priority project
£160,435 22/08/2018
23
Funding under Sport England's Active Ageing funding programme for a Revenue project titled Physical Activity and Lifestyle Clinical Priority project. This project lists its main activity as Sport ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 10/12 persons

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 01/04/1963, number: 223106
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
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR07: 1 days late,
Main office

30 EUSTON SQUARE
LONDON
NW1 2FB

Objectives

TO ENCOURAGE, FOSTER AND MAINTAIN THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE STANDARDS IN GENERAL MEDICAL PRACTICE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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