Finance Score: 6

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 6

Good reserves management: +3
Fundraising costs low: +3

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
All female board: -3

Grant maker support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 15

ERIC (EDUCATION AND RESOURCES FOR IMPROVING CHILDHOOD CONTINENCE)

ERIC provides expert support, information, education and understanding to children, young people and their families, enabling parents, carers and professionals across health, early years and schools to help them establish good bowel and bladder health.

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Positives:

The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board is completely female
Over half the Board have joined recently

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	*	£721	£707	£13	£57	£303	£247	4.2	18	8
31/03/22		£615	£584	£31	£83	£290	£268	5.5	15	8
31/03/21		£572	£487	£85	£58	£259	£238	5.9	14	14
31/03/20		£588	£554	£34	£57	£175	£152	3.3	13	7
31/03/19		£540	£525	£15	£49	£141	£134	3.1	11	3
31/03/18		£505	£471	£34	£47	£126	£126	3.2	11	0
31/03/17		£587	£573	£14	£54	£92	£87	1.8	11	0
31/03/16		£601	£634	£-33	£53	£77	£50	0.9	11	0
31/03/15		£688	£686	£1	£43	£110	£87	1.5	11	0
31/03/14		£587	£647	£-59	£74	£109	£89	1.7	10	0
31/03/13		£631	£591	£40	£73	£168	£113	2.3	5	0
31/03/12		£502	£542	£-40	£69	£128	£106	2.4	9	0
31/03/11		£627	£630	£-3	£307	£167	£126	2.4	9	0
31/03/10		£535	£601	£-65	£280	£171	£153	3.1	10	0
31/03/09		£679	£674	£5	£277	£236	£181	3.2	10	0
31/03/08		£714	£743	£-29	£272	£231	£171	2.8	10	0
31/03/07		£690	£650	£40	£268	£261	£164	3	13	0
31/03/06		£661	£603	£58	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05		£557	£581	£-24	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04		£583	£571	£11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 8.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 8%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 18%
Liabilities/Income: 9%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 81%
Reserves/Spending: 4.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 4.1

Asset Split ?

Established: 33 years

www.eric.org.uk

info@eric.org.uk

01173012105

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

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

GiG Classification

Early years interventions

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Australia, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

18 employees
8 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	£376,448
CAF	£7,992
The Clothworkers Foundation	£6,700
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust	£1,500

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Education & Resources for Improving Childhood Continence - ERIC
£500	15/11/2022	As directed by the donor towards the work of the charity.
National Lottery Community Fund - ERIC's Helpline & Family Services
£358,615	04/05/2022	The project is using funding to transform its existing Helpline service to encompass a broader range of family services. The group will build a structured volunteer programme to increase their ....more The project is using funding to transform its existing Helpline service to encompass a broader range of family services. The group will build a structured volunteer programme to increase their capacity to help families cope with their children’s continence problems and deliver outreach events in the South West North West London and Kent
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - ERIC (Education and Resources for Improving Childhood Continence) - 16/07/21
£1,500	10/08/2021	ERIC Helpline & Information Project
National Lottery Community Fund - Engaged in Bristol
£8,087	19/03/2021 10	The organisation will use the funding to continue to run their project supporting families who have children with continence conditions offering a peer to peer support group support worker and ....more The organisation will use the funding to continue to run their project supporting families who have children with continence conditions offering a peer to peer support group support worker and advice to reduce the impact of social isolation exacerbated by the pandemic.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Education & Resources for Improving Childhood Continence - ERIC
£500	04/01/2021	Sabita Ravi. As directed by donor
CAF - Grant to ERIC, The Children's Bowel and Bladder Charity
£7,992	27/04/2020 3	Grant to ERIC, The Children's Bowel and Bladder Charity to support the organisation through COVID19
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Education and Resources for Improving Childhood Continence
£6,700	20/01/2020	purchase of IT equipment for a charity which works with children with disabilities nationally
National Lottery Community Fund - ERIC Supporting Families
£9,746	11/07/2019 12	The funding will be used to provide a support worker for families caring for children with continence conditions. The project aims to reduce isolation and bring local people together.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000	21/11/2017	Early Interventions in bowel and bladder health
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to ERIC, The Children's Bowel and Bladder Charity
£20,000	14/03/2017	Main Grant unrestricted core costs

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How is it governed?

Trustees (8)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 7/8 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 32-81

DR JIDEOFOR MENAKAYA Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Consultant Neonatal Paediatrician

ALISON WILEMAN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Nurse

JENNIFER ROUSE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Commercial & Fundraising Director

JESSICA WESTLAKE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Europe Financial Controller

LAURA FLEMING Appointed: 2023

WENDY THOMPSON (Chair) Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Marketing & Communications Manager

ZOE WARREN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Nurse

DR EVELYN MARY FLEMING Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Retired

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 02/04/1991, number: 1002424
Registered at Companies House on 07/02/1991, number: 02580579

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
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR23: 75 days late,

Main office

36 Old School House
Kingswood Foundation Estate
Britannia Road
Kingswood
BRISTOL
BS15 8DB

Objectives

The relief of sickness and the promotion of health among children and young people with bladder and/or bowel conditions, and/or toilet training challenges. The protection and preservation of the environment for the public benefit by the promotion of waste reduction, re-use and the use of surplus continence products, including but not limited to nappy products and wipes.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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