Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 10
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Large legacies income: +1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs high: -4
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

ASTHMA AND LUNG UK

Asthma and Lung UK exists to help people with lung disease. It achieves this by:1 - Funding vital research into understanding, treating and preventing lung disease.2 - Promoting greater understanding of lung disease and campaigning for positive change in the nation's lung health.3 - Offering services and support so no one has to face it alone.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • This charity has received considerable income from legacies in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised

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
30/06/23£14,863£14,944£-81£5,033£13,551£5,8664.7179300
30/06/22£13,907£16,777£-2,870£4,872£13,161£4,4263.2167280
30/06/21£15,105£15,399£-294£4,012£15,397£4,4853.5158300
30/06/20£20,089£10,791£9,298£2,985£13,550£2,9133.2136900
30/06/19£8,507£8,723£-216£2,322£5,320£2,9904.1932,200
30/06/18£9,589£9,382£207£1,972£5,616£2,6413.4940
30/06/17£7,507£8,112£-605£1,601£5,270£1,4692.2860
30/06/16£7,000£7,898£-898£1,727£5,562£1,1531.8830
30/06/15£6,647£6,626£21£1,761£6,592£1,9553.5730
30/06/14£6,104£5,668£436£1,463£6,523£2,6415.6640
30/06/13£6,131£7,156£-1,025£1,392£5,833£2,6354.4870
30/06/12£6,376£7,311£-936£1,350£6,568£2,4364850
30/06/11£7,162£7,189£-27£1,152£7,567£3,1615.3760
30/06/10£8,289£5,895£2,394£959£7,338£2,8445.8720
30/06/09£5,406£5,764£-358£965£4,779£1,3802.9690
30/06/08£4,754£5,462£-708£1,336£5,407£1,6253.6660
30/06/07£6,216£5,097£1,119£1,034£6,492£1,3883.3690
30/06/06£4,424£5,158£-734n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/05*£6,113£4,412£1,701n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/04£4,737£3,989£748n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 37.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 34.6%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 9%
Highest pay band: £140,000-£150,000
Liabilities/Assets: 47%
Liabilities/Income: 82%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 43%
Reserves/Spending: 4.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: -4 months
Quick Ratio: 0.4
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 40 years

www.asthmaandlung.org.uk

info@asthmaandlung.org.uk

02076885555

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Medical research
How it operates
  • Makes grants to organisations
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Isle Of Man, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

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
Guy's and St Thomas' Charity£1,071,857
Department of Health£273,070
Garfield Weston Foundation£150,000
DCMS£100,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Shears Foundation - Asthma & Lung UK
£5,000 01/11/2022
Can we improve the way asthma is diagnosed using new tests that look at the small airways of the lungs, and can these tests better predict response to treatment? (Research project led by Dr Clare Murray, University of Manchester)
Guy's and St Thomas' Charity - Clean the Air Campaign 2022-2024
£653,863 29/06/2022
To provide funding for the Clear the Air Campaign for two years, aiming to influence policy making in relation to clean air, with a particular focus on people most vulnerable to the health effects of pollution
London Catalyst - Asthma and Lung UK Westminster Patient Support group - 1
£1,595 03/05/2022
GET OUT AND ABOUT
Guy's and St Thomas' Charity - Healthy Air coalition
£200,194 09/03/2022
Support for a new coalition group of organisations working on 'healthy air' issues, to amplify the importance of these issues, share research and learning, strengthen new or under-resourced voices and co-ordinate communication and influencing ....more
Guy's and St Thomas' Charity - COP26 campaign
£217,800 22/06/2021
This is 12 months of funding to support Asthma UK and British Lung Foundation Partnership to conduct a year long campaign and set of influencing actions. Key activities include: Storytelling outreach and community advocacy, capturing stories of ....more
Department of Health - VCSE Health and Wellbeing Fund
£123,070 01/04/2021
The VCSE Health and Wellbeing Fund is a yearly fund for voluntary and community sector organisations that is run in partnership between DHSC, PHE and NHS EI. Each year the fund has a different theme which is determined based on system-wide ....more
Department of Health - VCSE providing support to those non-hospitalised with Long Covid
£150,000 04/03/2021
Race Equality Foundation and Learning Disability England will explore the issues with people with learning disabilities and their families, VCSE workers, clinical leads, social care practitioners and commissioners from local health and social care ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Hucknall Breathe Easy
£3,242 24/10/2020
Our project aims to help people lead as active a life as possible. We will provide residents with support and essential breathing equipment.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£100,000 05/10/2020
"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
Garfield Weston Foundation - Major Grants award - COVID19 response
£150,000 24/07/2020
Supporting the Nation's Lungs Post-Covid
OVO Foundation - OVO Gives Back - 2019-2020
£20,000 01/08/2019
This grant was used to support BLF's Clean Air for Children Monitoring project where air pollution data will be collected around areas where children frequent. The data will then be used to campaign.
Masonic Trust - MCF Medical Research
£105,000 12/06/2019
A grant to fund 1 PhD studentships to conduct research into Lung Diseases and Lung Cancer
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Breathe Easy Hucknall
£3,996 19/11/2018
We would like to be able to take our members and their carers on outings, and buy a new projector and a gazebo.
Masonic Trust - MCF Medical Research
£105,000 14/11/2018
A grant to fund 1 PhD studentships to conduct research into Lung Diseases and Lung Cancer
Sport England - RG Physical Activity Project
£207,917 22/03/2018
32
Funding under Sport England's Tackling Inactivity funding programme for a Revenue project titled RG Physical Activity Project. This project lists its main activity as Sport participation and capacity building
National Lottery Community Fund - Singing for Lung Health, Wales
£73,466 14/02/2018
24
The project will establish 20 singing groups for the benefit of 200 people living with lung conditions, across Wales. The project will enable participants to better manage their condition, reduce isolation and be more active in their communities. ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - BLF Singing for Lung Health in NI
£9,998 28/09/2017
11
The group offers support, advice, research and campaigning around lung health and conditions across the UK. They are using a £9,998 grant to run activities across Northern Ireland to promote singing for healthier lungs.
National Lottery Community Fund - Singing for Lung Health Glasgow
£9,976 23/05/2017
12
This organisation raises awareness of lung health and provides support for people living with lung conditions. This project will involve training volunteers to lead ‘singing for lung health classes’, aimed at improving lung capacity and health ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Breathing Better
£4,869 12/04/2017
12
British Lung Foundation (BLF) will use the grant to hold community engagement events that will increase awareness of lung conditions and target BME communities across Wales. This grant for £4,869 will fund events costs, publicity materials, ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - COPD: Helping You Help Yourself
£239,131 25/01/2017
36
COPD: Helping You Help Yourself
Nesta - AC00570
£978,309 08/08/2016
56
Accelerating Ideas programme grant to British Lung Foundation Grant Ref AC00570
National Lottery Community Fund - Healthy Digital
£10,000 06/04/2016
12
The group will use the funding to deliver a range of activities with local support groups for people living with serious lung conditions. The activities will be delivered by experts in the field and will provide an insight in to the treatment and ....more
Sport England - BLF Behaviour Change for Sport Programme
£498,014 13/11/2015
36
Funding under Sport England's Get Healthy, Get into Sport Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'BLF Behaviour Change for Sport Programme'. This project lists its main activity as Multi Sports.
Nesta - AC00505
£15,000 23/10/2015
3
Accelerating Ideas programme grant to British Lung Foundation Grant Ref AC00505
Nesta - AC00366
£396,688 04/02/2014
Centre for Social Action Innovation Fund programme grant to British Lung Foundation Grant Ref AC00366
National Lottery Community Fund - Empowering people with long-term lung disease
£153,824 19/09/2012
24
The expansion of an existing project in the West Midlands run by the British Lung Foundation which will take the service into the East Midlands linking new support groups with existing Breathe Easy groups. The project aims to reach people living ....more
Dunhill Medical Trust - Breath Easy Groups
£58,112 09/03/2011
Breathe Easy self-help groups provide information and support for older people with chronic lung disease
National Lottery Community Fund - Empowering Communities - Supporting People Living with Long Term Lung Disea
£144,129 10/02/2010
24
This is an expansion of an existing project in the West Midlands which educates and supports people with any form of lung disease through the group's Breathe Easy peer support groups, run by and for people with lung disease. The group has identified ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 11/12 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 42-68
  • CAROLINE CARTELLIERI KARLSEN Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Private Equity
  • DR THOMAS HODSON Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Doctor
  • JAMES SEBASTIAN BOWES Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Ceo
  • JOHN DAVID HANNAFORD Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Banker
  • KATHERINE MORGAN Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Business Executive
  • MICHAEL O'CONNOR Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Director
  • NIREN PATEL Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Business Executive
  • PROFESSOR IAN HALL Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Physician
  • PROFESSOR DAVID ARTHUR LOMAS Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Professor Of Medicine
  • PROFESSOR IAN SABROE Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Professor
  • TAMARA INGRAM OBE (Chair) Appointed: 2022
  • VICTOR CHOLIJ Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 11/12/1984, number: 326730
  • Registered at Companies House on 14/11/1984, number: 01863614
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
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
20 returns made; AR05: 15 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from BOURNEMOUTH VOLUNTARY CARE COMMITTEE FOR TUBERCULOSIS AND DISEASES OF THE CHEST on 23/03/2022
  • Asset transfer in from THE JOAN TANNER CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT on 01/09/2022
Main office

The White Chapel Building
10 Whitechapel High Street
London
E1 8QS

Objectives

OBJECTS2.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE PARTNERSHIP ARE:2.1.1 THE RELIEF OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM DISEASES OF THE CHEST AND LUNGS, TO INCLUDE, ON A CONTINUING BASIS, ASTHMA, AND THE PREVENTION OF THOSE DISEASES;2.1.2 THE PROMOTION OF MEDICAL RESEARCH INTO THE PREVENTION, TREATMENT, ALLEVIATION AND CURE OF THOSE DISEASES AND THE DISSEMINATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND THE PROMOTION OF POST-GRADUATE TRAINING AND THE CREATION OF FELLOWSHIPS, HOSPITALS, MEDICAL CENTRES AND RESEARCH INSTITUTES; AND2.1.3 THE PROVISION OF CARE, SUPPORT, SERVICES AND INFORMATION FOR PERSONS SUFFERING FROM THOSE DISEASES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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