Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 8
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • Fundraising costs high: -3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Award winner
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 16 ?

ENCEPHALITIS INTERNATIONAL 

To provide a supportive lifeline & activities that benefit those affected by Encephalitis, their families and carers.To produce quality, evidence-based information on all aspects of the condition. To raise awareness about the condition and its consequences among relevant professionals, statutory agencies and the general public.To encourage research into Encephalitis and its after-effects.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • This charity is a recent Award Winner
  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • 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:

  • Income was lower than spending in the latest year
  • Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised

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£954£1,070£-116£186£1,305£1,0711216114
31/03/22£957£880£77£201£1,518£1,20916.51188
31/03/21£997£719£278£138£1,431£1,10918.51280
31/03/20£1,163£810£353£117£1,073£6699.91282
31/03/19£727£628£99£88£769£54810.511166
31/03/18£526£659£-133£91£659£4878.9110
31/03/17£692£620£73£73£798£4739.2100
31/03/16£493£659£-166£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£522£606£-84£41£864£3186.3100
31/03/14£897£497£401£29£917£2836.880
31/03/13£584£408£177£24£516£3179.390
31/03/12£410£320£90£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£303£329£-26£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£315£257£59£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£312£322£-10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£370£316£54£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£312£316£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£258£263£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£232£217£15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£183£172£11£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 30.9%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 17.9%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 7%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 5%
Liabilities/Income: 7%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 82%
Reserves/Spending: 12 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 4.3
Asset Split ?
Established: 23 years

www.encephalitis.info

mail@encephalitis.info

01653 692583

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Other specialist outpatient services
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
Who works here?
  • 16 employees
  • 114 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Awards received
  • Charity Times 2017 Awards Charity of the Year, income < £1m
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
DCMS£125,304
Masonic Trust£60,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£55,000
Rank Foundation£25,000
National Lottery Community Fund£15,950
The Shears Foundation£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Shears Foundation - Encephalitis Society
£5,000 01/11/2022
Encephalitis Conference 2022
National Lottery Community Fund - Translation of YouTube Animations
£5,950 15/08/2022
The funding will be used to translate 'Understanding Encephalitis' animation videos into different languages. The project aims to increase online presence and ensure more people have access to ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£15,000 24/06/2022
Encephalitis Society Support and Connection Programme
The Shears Foundation - Encephalitis Society
£5,000 27/10/2021
Encephalitis Conference 2021
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Continuity Support
£30,000 22/10/2021
To support cultural organisations who have received funding from the Culture Recovery Fund: Grants programme, in the first or second rounds, and can clearly demonstrate the financial need for further ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£15,000 16/07/2021
Encephalitis Society Support and Connection Programme
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Encephalitis Support Group (known as the Encephalitis Society) - 24/06/21
£1,250 07/07/2021
Core Funding
Masonic Trust - MCF Large Grant
£60,000 14/10/2020
A grant to support young people with encephalitis through digital support.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£95,304 29/07/2020
"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
Rank Foundation - Resilience Fund Encephalitis Society 2020
£25,000 07/05/2020
To cover lost income
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Encephalitis Support Group
£3,418 14/04/2020
COVID19 : purchase IT equipment and software for a charity that works with disadvantaged minority communities in North Yorkshire
National Lottery Community Fund - Encephalitis Volunteer Hubs
£10,000 03/04/2020
15
The funding will provide the faciliation and set-up of volunteer-led hubs which will provide a setting for regional meetings in towns and cities across England. This will be open to anyone affected ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 29/11/2019
Core Costs
National Lottery Community Fund - Life After Encephalitis
£147,500 30/10/2018
35
This funding will be used to support families whose lives have been affected by encephalitis. A range of events will be funded to bring people together, providing them with the opportunity to share ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 16/05/2018
Main Grants award
National Lottery Community Fund - Capacity Building: Gearing up for Growth
£10,000 03/08/2016
12
The organisation will use the funding to install a new server and lay new flooring at their centre. This will enable them to meet the increased demand for their services and to provide improved ....more
The October Club -
£500,000 31/10/2013
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 36-60
  • DAVID JOHN SMITH Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Information Security Consultant And Auditor
  • GAGUN GAHIR (Chair) Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Regional Manager Emea & Americas Telstra
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 02/08/2001, number: 1087843
  • Registered at Companies House on 28/03/2001, number: 04189027
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
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from THE SOPHIE CAMERON TRUST on 23/08/2022
Main office

The Encephalitis Society
32 Castlegate
Malton
YO17 7DT

Objectives

(1) THE RELIEF OF PERSONS AFFECTED BY ENCEPHALITIS AND THEIR FAMILIES(2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC ON THE SUBJECT OF ENCEPHALITIS AND ITS IMPLICATION FOR THE FAMILY(3) TO PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO THE MANAGEMENT OF ENCEPHALITIS AND TO PUBLISH USEFUL RESULTS

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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