Overall GiG Score: 13 ?
Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 8
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Excess liquidity: -1
  • Volatile income: -3
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8

YORKSHIRE MESMAC 

Yorkshire MESMAC is one of the oldest and largest sexual health organisations in the country. We offer services to various communities including men who have sex with men, BME people, people misusing drugs, sex workers and LGB&T young people and adults.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appeared to be in excess of CC guidelines at the latest year end
  • Income has been volatile recently
Established: 30 years

www.mesmac.co.uk

admin@mesmac.co.uk

01132444209

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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£1,462£1,437£25£10£2,300£2,13717.83360
31/03/22£1,505£1,488£17£11£2,284£2,15617.44075
31/03/21*£1,842£1,545£297£10£2,138£1,91814.95285
31/03/20£1,925£1,769£156£17£1,652£1,55310.559133
31/03/19£1,719£1,755£-36£20£1,569£1,50910.354110
31/03/18£1,819£1,776£43£22£1,553£1,4479.8590
31/03/17£1,968£1,841£126£215£1,505£1,3188.6460
31/03/16£1,861£1,535£325£117£1,366£1,1989.4450
31/03/15£1,319£1,285£35£53£1,076£1,0399.7210
31/03/14£1,395£1,261£134£192£1,041£8147.7210
31/03/13£1,035£964£71£26£907£6848.5180
31/03/12£982£907£75£27£836£6318.3200
31/03/11£1,123£964£159£29£761£5066.3220
31/03/10£1,123£1,064£59£35£602£3944.4220
31/03/09£1,146£973£173£23£543£2583.2210
31/03/08£794£736£58£20£370£2133.5170
31/03/07*£704£676£28£20£312£2304.1170
31/03/06*£593£621£-28£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£601£626£-25£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£650£539£111£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.7%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.7%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 3%
Liabilities/Income: 4%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 93%
Reserves/Spending: 17.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: 11.1
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 33 employees
  • 60 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Individuals
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,

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
Department of Health£33,423
Comic Relief£25,637
Leeds Community Foundation£25,472
Garfield Weston Foundation£12,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Creative Voices
£9,852 27/01/2023
The funding will be used to deliver creative activities for a group of older people from the LGBTQ+ community which will explore different creative and artistic ways of expressing the experience of ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - Leeds LGBT+ Suicide Prevention
£23,072 15/03/2022
The project will improve the mental health of and reduce suicide and suicidal ideation by LGBT+ folk by harnessing key assets of Leeds' vibrant LGBT+ communities by recruiting and training peer ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - Unreached equals Unmet needs - opening up new referral pathways for the LGBTQ+ community
£2,400 20/09/2021
Loneliness and isolation among older members of the LGBTQ+ community in Leeds remains high, even as we drift out of COVID, and knowledge of and access to services like SAGE are still less than ideal, ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000 22/09/2020
"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
Comic Relief - Yorkshire MESMAC Recovery Funding
£25,637 23/06/2020
6
COVID19 Recovery funding
Department of Health - Sexual Reproductive Health Innovation Fund
£33,423 01/04/2020
The proposed focus of the 2020 fund is addressing inequalities in SH, RH and HIV health outcomes experienced by Black, Asian, and other minority ethnic (BAME) communities. The fund is open to ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£12,000 07/02/2020
Queer Stories Yorkshire;LGBTQ+ Social History Project
Comic Relief - Mens Total Health
£134,063 16/05/2018
36
Gay, bisexual and trans young people are at greater risk of depression, anxiety and suicide ideation than the wider population of young people. They often also face particular issues around body ....more
Comic Relief - Online booking
£68,759 27/09/2017
12
Online booking has been shown to substantially increase levels of people booking HIV tests, Yorkshire MESMAC has recorded an increase of 57% since introducing it 2 years ago. This project will ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Yorkshire MESMAC (The BLAST Project)
£22,326 26/07/2017
36
Towards the salary of the project coordinator and costs of BLAST, a project supporting boys and young men affected by child sexual exploitation.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Yorkshire MESMAC
£385,600 08/12/2016
Queer Stories (Yorkshire): LGBTQ+ Social History Project
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Yorkshire MESMAC
£150,000 17/09/2015
36
towards three years' running costs of child sexual exploitation services BLAST and Genesis Leeds, and to establish these services in North Yorkshire
National Lottery Community Fund - Time 2...
£350,324 12/08/2015
36
A specialist hub support service for boys and girls and young men and women who are either at risk of or have been victims of child sexual exploitation (CSE). It will have a central hub in York city ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Yorkshire MESMAC (The BLAST Project)
£94,122 18/12/2013
Towards core costs to provide one to one support and advice to boys and young men at risk of sexual exploitation.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Yorkshire MESMAC (The BLAST Project)
£84,747 30/09/2010
36
Towards Core costs Towards the projects costs for BLAST! which will specialise in providing prevention and protection to boys/young men involved in/at risk of sexual exploitation.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 29-66
  • COLIN LEA Appointed: 2000, Occupation: Care Worker
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 24/08/1994, number: 1040407
  • Registered at Companies House on 12/08/1994, number: 02958336
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Care Quality Commission
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; AR21: 1 days late, AR07: 2 days late, AR06: 2 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

Yorkshire MESMAC
22-23 Blayds Yard
LEEDS
LS1 4AD

Objectives

TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT HEALTH, PHYSICAL AND MENTAL AND IN PARTICULAR GOOD SEXUAL HEALTH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN GENERAL WITH AN EMPHASIS ON THOSE COMMUNITIES THAT SHOULDER THE HIGHEST BURDEN OF POOR HEALTH, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN, LGBT+ YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS, WOMEN, PEOPLE OF COLOUR AND OTHER PEOPLE MARGINALISED BECAUSE OF THEIR RACE, ETHNICITY OR NATIONALITY, PEOPLE USING DRUGS AND SEX WORKERS. TO SUPPORT AND DEVELOP STRONG COMMUNITIES WHICH CREATE THE ENVIRONMENT FOR BETTER HEALTH OUTCOMES AND THE REDUCTION OF HEALTH INEQUALITIES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

YORKSHIRE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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