Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 1
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +1
Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

THE PITUITARY FOUNDATION 

Supporting pituitary patients and their carers
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • 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:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 28 years

www.pituitary.org.uk

accounts@pituitary.org.uk

01173701333

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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
30/06/23£484£504£-20n/an/an/an/an/a100
30/06/22£468£456£12n/an/an/an/an/a120
30/06/21£518£408£110£107£497£43712.88140
30/06/20£528£447£82£111£387£3549.510140
30/06/19£410£453£-44n/an/an/an/an/a140
30/06/18£438£479£-41£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/17£409£581£-172£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/16£336£451£-116£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/15£579£369£210£58£677£67121.870
30/06/14£466£328£138£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/13£370£279£91£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/12£276£252£23£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/11*£252£294£-42£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/10£266£294£-28£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/09£338£284£54£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/08£200£242£-42£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/07£287£308£-21£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/06£314£306£8£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/05*£383£257£126£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/04£333£337£-4£0£0£0n/a00

Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 15%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 100 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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to The Pituitary Foundation
£250 31/03/2023
As requested by the donor towards the Pituitary Foundation, a national support and information organisation for pituitary patients, their families, friends and carers. We are the UK's leading charity ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to The Pituitary Foundation
£250 16/07/2021
As directed by the donor towards providing UK-wide support and information for pituitary patients, their families, friends and carers.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Pituitary Foundation
£10,000 25/07/2019
purchase of IT equipment for a charity which works with people with disabilities nationally
National Lottery Community Fund - Volunteer Training Event
£10,000 28/09/2016
12
This is a project by a charity in Bristol, that will benefit people across England. The group will use the funding to deliver training for its volunteers that will enable the organisation to improve ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

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

Age Range of Trustees: 38-64
  • ALEXIA DELELIGNE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Head Of Performance And Evaluation
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 01/11/1996, number: 1058968
  • Registered at Companies House on 23/09/1996, number: 03253584
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; AR11: 10 days late, AR05: 30 days late,
Main office

The Pituitary Foundation
Brunswick Court
Brunswick Square
Bristol
BS2 8PE

Objectives

1) TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF AND TREATMENT OF PERSONS SUFFERING FORM PITUITARY DISORDERS AND RELATED CONDITIONS AND DISEASES AND THEIR FAMILIES FRIENDS AND CARERS AND TO PROVIDE 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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