Finance Score: -4
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 0
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Positive trading contribution: +2;Fundraising costs high: -5
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: 5 ?

THE WILLIAM HARVEY RESEARCH FOUNDATION 

Support and promote medical research primarily through grants for research on cardiovascular disease, inflammatory disorders, and endocrine or metabolic diseases
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • More than half of total income was derived from trading and fees in the latest year
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
  • Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised

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£1,378£1,250£128£270£197£990.9100
31/03/22£1,663£1,578£84£269£373£970.760
31/03/21£1,132£1,144£-11£214£289£97160
31/03/20£1,458£1,472£-14£310£300£1150.980
31/03/19£1,473£1,439£33£316£314£3082.680
31/03/18£1,620£1,791£-171£288£23£190.180
31/03/17£2,076£2,148£-72£299£452£4412.580
31/03/16£1,701£1,671£30£244£524£5073.670
31/03/15£1,582£1,570£12£233£494£4783.730
31/03/14£833£1,037£-204£211£482£4525.230
31/03/13£783£936£-153£227£686£6207.930
31/03/12£769£1,017£-247£273£839£7558.930
31/03/11£1,325£1,767£-442£74£1,197£8165.530
31/03/10£1,220£961£259£273£1,528£1,34216.820
31/03/09£958£751£207£186£1,269£1,14518.320
31/03/08£922£1,046£-124£120£1,062£1,03711.920
31/03/07*£959£812£146£70£1,186£91813.620
31/03/06£1,000£1,012£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£1,093£1,152£-58£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£794£1,118£-325£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 47.4%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 21.6%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 26%
Liabilities/Income: 5%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 50%
Reserves/Spending: 0.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
Quick Ratio: 8.5
Asset Split ?
Established: 34 years

www.williamharveyresearch.com/foundation

main-contact@whrf.org.uk

0207 882 8809

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Medical education & research
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 10 employees

Who's supporting them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 9/10 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 41-79
  • VANELA BUSHI Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director, Syneos Health
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 12/03/1990, number: 803012
  • Registered at Companies House on 22/02/1990, number: 02472965
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Risk management
  • Serious incident reporting 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

WILLIAM HARVEY RESEARCH FOUNDATION
CHARTERHOUSE SQUARE
LONDON
EC1M 6BQ

Objectives

The objects for which the Company is established are to promote and support for the benefit of the public, medical research (at the Company?s accommodation at St. Bartholomew?s Hospital Medical College or elsewhere) leading to new treatments for cardiovascular, metabolic, inflammatory and other diseases and to disseminate the results thereof

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

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