Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 8
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Large volunteers +5
  • Grant maker support: +3
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

TORBAY HOSPITAL RADIO 

Torbay Hospital Radio are here to help make patients' stay within Torbay Hospital, more tolerable and aid their recovery by playing patient music requests & providing specialists music shows, interviews, radio plays via 95.9FM, online via our website and streaming services such as TuneIn which broadcasts via torbayhospitalraido.com
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • 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

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
28/02/23£24£21£2n/an/an/an/an/a25
28/02/22£13£8£5n/an/an/an/an/a30
28/02/21£7£13£-7n/an/an/an/an/a0
29/02/20£9£8£1n/an/an/an/an/a0
28/02/19£8£7£1n/an/an/an/an/a20
28/02/18£3£2£1£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/17£4£4£0£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/16*£4£6£-2£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/15£5£3£2£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/14£3£3£0£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/13£3£3£0£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/12£4£2£2£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/11£3£5£-2£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/10£3£5£-2£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/09*£4£4£1£0£0£0n/a00
29/02/08£4£5£-1£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/07?£3£3£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/05£2£2£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/04£3£1£1£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 28 years

www.torbayhospitalradio.com

info@torbayhospitalradio.com

01803655360

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UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Performing and visual arts
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Torbay,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 25 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
Co-Operative Group£5,232
National Lottery Community Fund£4,886
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund£673
Devon Community Foundation£500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Torbay Hospital Radio
£2,475 21/10/2023
We would like more radios for the wards and waiting rooms in Torbay Hospital, so patients and staff can tune into Torbay Hospital Radio and hear their requests and dedications.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Torbay Hospital Radio
£2,757 22/10/2022
We would like to modernise our studio and outdoor broadcast equipment and spaces to provide better, more professional shows for our listeners.
National Lottery Community Fund - Torbay Hospital Radio - Studio 2
£4,886 11/03/2022
The funding will be used to equip the newly built studio with new digital equipment and software. The project aims to furnish an additional studio to provide training for volunteers and to be used as ....more
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Torbay Hospital Radio
£673 13/04/2021
Small Grant Unrestricted Core Costs
Devon Community Foundation - COVID19 Studio upgrade
£500 11/06/2020
Grant to Torbay Hospital Radio
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Torbay Hospital Radio
£4,543 19/11/2018
We are rebuilding our second studio to help presenters do another show for recordings when the main studio is in use.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 20/03/1996, number: 1053900
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • 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
19 returns made; AR16: 34 days late, AR09: 1286 days late,
Main office

Torbay Hospital Radio
Torbay Hospital
Newton Road
TORQUAY
Devon
TQ2 7AA

Objectives

TO RELIEVE SICKNESS, INFIRMITY AND OLD AGE AMONGST PERSONS LIVING IN THE TORBAY AND DISTRICT AREA BY PROVIDING A LOCAL BROADCASTING SERVICE FOR HOSPITALS, OLD PERSONS' HOMES AND SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

TORBAY AND DISTRICT

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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