Overall GiG Score: 7 ?
Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 6
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +3

BRITISH THYROID FOUNDATION 

Provides information and support to people with thyroid disorders , their families and carers; provides information on the patient perspective to the medical profession
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 32 years

btf-thyroid.org

info@btf-thyroid.org

01423810093

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UN SDGs
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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
31/03/23£236£241£-5n/an/an/an/an/a49
31/03/22£149£187£-38n/an/an/an/an/a30
31/03/21£124£157£-33n/an/an/an/an/a22
31/03/20£207£236£-29n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/19£147£181£-34n/an/an/an/an/a21
31/03/18£102£197£-95£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£185£160£26£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£143£158£-15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£247£175£72£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£119£180£-61£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£205£166£39£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£190£268£-78£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£115£136£-21£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£177£127£50£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£114£145£-32£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£120£144£-25£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£117£110£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£110£108£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£113£109£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£115£112£3£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who works here?
  • 49 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 22/10/2021
British Thyroid Foundation core costs application
National Lottery Community Fund - British Thyroid Foundation Weightloss and Wellbeing Project
£9,910 09/04/2021
The funding will be used to provide a specific weight management programme for people with thyroid disorders who find that conventional weight loss programmes are not suitable. The project aims to ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - The BTF Children's Conference 2019
£6,025 04/01/2019
12
This funding will be used for venue hire, staff costs and other costs such as marketing and supplies. The project aims to provide specialist advice and knowledge for families and children ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

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

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 26/11/1991, number: 1006391
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
  • 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; all on time
Main office

British Thyroid Foundation
Suite 12, One Sceptre House
Hornbeam Square North
HARROGATE
North Yorkshire
HG2 8PB

Objectives

1.TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF AND TREATMENT OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM THRYOID DISORDERS AND RELATED CONDITIONS OR DISEASES AND TO PROVIDE ADVICE INFORMATION AND SUPPORT .2,TO PROMOTE AND SUPPORT RESEARCH AND TO DISSEMINATE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE RESULTS OF ANY SUCH RESEARCH.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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