Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 10
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Large legacies income: +1
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Fundraising costs high: -3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 21 ?

THE MACULAR DISEASE SOCIETY 

Beating the fear and isolation of macular disease with world-class research, and the best advice and support.
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
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • 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

Financial issues to consider:

  • Fundraising costs are high relative to funds raised
Established: 33 years
(36 years as a company)

www.macularsociety.org

info@macularsociety.org

01264 350551

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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£8,931£7,430£1,501£2,318£6,806£4,3026.9781,221
31/12/21£7,762£6,059£1,703£1,873£5,483£3,7587.4651,390
31/12/20£5,401£5,267£134£1,412£3,780£2,9466.7631,368
31/12/19£5,322£5,083£239£1,041£3,646£2,5846.1691,422
31/12/18£5,163£4,759£404£1,034£3,363£2,3105.8571,504
31/12/17£4,161£4,258£-97£853£3,023£2,1666.1490
31/12/16£3,735£4,096£-361£688£3,103£1,9915.8540
31/12/15£3,759£3,496£263£667£3,337£2,3458400
31/12/14£3,661£3,679£-18£775£2,967£2,0516.7360
31/12/13£3,313£2,768£545£557£2,951£2,1599.4320
31/12/12£3,216£2,280£936£547£2,428£1,6998.9280
31/12/11£1,774£1,783£-9£329£1,492£8705.9260
31/12/10£2,154£1,663£491£374£1,501£9777240
31/12/09£1,476£1,554£-78£389£1,010£7916.1180
31/12/08£1,597£1,490£107£296£1,088£8576.9170
31/12/07£1,256£1,067£189£151£980£7898.9130
31/12/06£1,091£887£205£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/05£1,008£688£321£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/04£622£512£110£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 26.7%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 31.4%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 4%
Highest pay band: £80,000-£90,000
Liabilities/Assets: 29%
Liabilities/Income: 31%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 63%
Reserves/Spending: 6.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 9 months
Quick Ratio: 3.7
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Guernsey, Isle Of Man, Jersey, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • 78 employees
  • 1,221 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
National Lottery Community Fund£916,880
City Bridge Trust£85,000
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy£43,554
DCMS£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Linbury Trust - Energy efficiency - Macular Society
£6,420 13/12/2023
A one off grant towards costs for an energy audit.
National Lottery Community Fund - Early intervention and support for people diagnosed with sight loss
£9,880 05/05/2023
The Macular Disease Society is using a £9880 grant to develop information packs for people across Northern Ireland who have been diagnosed with Macular disease. The packs will provide valuable ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Practical and emotional support for people living with sight loss
£67,000 20/09/2022
This organisation will continue to deliver practical and emotional support services across Scotland to people losing their sight due to macular disease. People will be provided with advice and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - A volunteer framework supporting visually-impaired people in English communities
£10,000 08/04/2022
The funding will be used to support a new volunteering infrastructure to support visually impaired people early and bring them together with others.
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Patient-centred smartphone AI for protecting vision in macular disease
£43,554 01/04/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10018335
National Lottery Community Fund - A volunteer framework supporting visually-impaired people in Welsh communities
£10,000 24/01/2022
The Macular Disease Society in Swansea will expand their volunteering opportunities to support people with sight loss in Wales. £10000 will fund volunteer recruitment and resources training ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Beating the Fear of Isolation of Macular Disease
£300,000 22/07/2021
60
Using £300000 over five years The Macular Disease Society will build on their previous project to deliver peer and practical support advice and information to people in Wales with macular disease. ....more
Vision Foundation - Recruitment and training of volunteer telephone befrienders.
£9,990 10/03/2021
Telephone Befriending: peer support for people with sight loss due to macular disease
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000 09/09/2020
"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 ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Macular Disease Society
£85,000 20/01/2020
36
£85,000 over three years (£45,000; £25,000; £15,000) towards the salary and on-costs of a London Regional Manager (37.5hpw), volunteer costs, direct management and related running costs.
National Lottery Community Fund - Practical and emotional support for people with sight loss
£120,000 26/11/2019
35
The group will use the funding over three years to sustain and expand their practical and emotional support services for anyone losing their sight due to macular disease. The services will also ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Beating the fear and isolation of sight-loss through macular disease
£400,000 11/09/2019
59
The five-year project is using £400,000 to support people across Northern Ireland with Macular Disease. The project is creating new peer support groups and enhancing the range of services offered. ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 16/04/2019
Support Group Expansion (Core Costs)
Masonic Trust - MCF Large Grant
£99,070 23/10/2018
A grant to extend services providing emotional support to people who are losing their sight.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 02/10/2017
Support groups expansion
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Towards Peer support and rehabilitative training Year 3
£10,437 01/04/2015
Towards Peer support and rehabilitative training Year 3
National Lottery Community Fund - Boosting the independence & sociality of people with Macular Disease
£348,272 18/03/2015
36
Not Available
National Lottery Community Fund - Peer Support for people with Macular Disease in Northern Ireland
£200,000 12/03/2013
60
The project will support people aged over 60 who have macular disease, a condition which leads to the progressive loss of central and detailed vision and is one of the leading causes of blindness. It ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Volunteer Training and Networking Project
£10,000 22/12/2011
12
This is a project by a charity based in Hampshire and serving beneficiaries in Southampton, Bristol, London and Birmingham. The group will use the funding to deliver volunteer training and networking ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Macular Disease Society
£40,000 20/10/2011
the salary costs of the Senior Group Development Managers (North and South)
National Lottery Community Fund - Volunteer Development Project
£339,917 10/08/2010
60
This project trains and supports people with Macular Degeneration (MD) to volunteer with the Macular Disease Society. MD is a medical condition that results in a loss of vision in the centre of the ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 37-68
  • SHEENA GEORGE Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Medical Retinal Consultant
  • WALTER LOW Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Chartered Accountant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 10/12/1990, number: 1001198
  • Registered at Companies House on 13/10/1987, number: 02177039
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from OGWR DISTRICT TALKING NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION on 29/03/2022
Main office

Crown Chambers
South Street
ANDOVER
Hampshire
SP10 2BN

Objectives

1. RELIEF OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM MACULAR DISEASE AND PROMOTION OF RESEARCH ON THE EYE AND BRAIN, WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF BLINDNESS AND VISUALLY DISABLING CONDITIONS AND TO DISSEMINATE RESULTS OF RESEARCH. 2.ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC CONCERNING MACULAR DISEASE, ITS CAUSES AND TREATMENT. 3.TO RAISE FUNDS TO ENABLE THE ABOVE TWO AIMS TO BE IMPLEMENTED.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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