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Finance Score: -8
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 6
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • Fundraising costs high: -3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 1 ?

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS TRUST 

The Multiple Sclerosis Trust is a UK charity for people with MS, their friends, families and carers and for the health and social care professionals who work with them. Our activities include the provision of information and professional education, funding for practical research and campaigning for the improvement of MS services.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
  • Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised
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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
31/07/23£2,301£2,411£-110£685£2,983£2,57412.834320
31/07/22£1,841£2,488£-647£692£3,093£2,65712.834205
31/07/21£3,077£1,936£1,141£591£3,740£3,10519.22985
31/07/20£2,203£2,404£-201£701£2,599£1,9799.93377
31/07/19£2,088£2,534£-446£741£2,800£1,9809.433145
31/07/18£3,418£2,552£866£974£3,246£2,0959.9330
31/07/17£2,361£2,371£-10£885£2,381£1,8199.2300
31/07/16£3,329£2,987£342£881£2,391£2,0318.2340
31/07/15£3,212£3,540£-328£822£2,049£1,6215.5280
31/07/14£4,246£3,881£365£765£2,377£1,8725.8270
31/07/13£3,408£2,729£679£724£2,012£1,3946.1250
31/07/12£2,561£2,774£-212£718£1,332£1,2915.6240
31/07/11£2,837£2,888£-50£725£1,545£1,4926.2230
31/07/10£2,829£2,788£40£697£1,595£1,5266.6230
31/07/09£2,753£2,534£219£709£1,554£1,5097.1220
31/07/08£2,717£2,340£377£732£1,330£1,2566.4210
31/07/07£2,420£2,687£-268£653£959£8904200
31/07/06£2,430£2,460£-31£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/05£2,044£1,922£121£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/04£1,940£1,863£77£0£0£0n/a00
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Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 32.3%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 28.5%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 15%
Highest pay band: £90,000-£100,000
Liabilities/Assets: 17%
Liabilities/Income: 26%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 86%
Reserves/Spending: 12.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 15 months
Quick Ratio: 1.2
Asset Split ?
Established: 23 years

www.mstrust.org.uk

info@mstrust.org.uk

01462476700

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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Services for people with disabilities
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • 34 employees
  • 320 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
Garfield Weston Foundation£65,000
DCMS£50,000
Dulverton Trust£25,000
London Catalyst£3,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£1,000 20/02/2023
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
London Catalyst - Multiple Sclerosis Trust - 1
£3,000 23/09/2021
A specialist nurse to improve care for North London's MS community
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - The Multiple Sclerosis Trust - 19/03/21
£1,250 13/04/2021
A digital platform to empower children & young people living with MS
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£50,000 09/10/2020
Core Costs - Enabling key support for people with MS through COVID-19 and beyond
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£50,000 05/10/2020
"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
Dulverton Trust - training and establishing specialist nurses - in memory of Lady Rifkind
£25,000 12/02/2020
training and establishing specialist nurses - in memory of Lady Rifkind
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 18/06/2019
Specialist MS Nurses
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - MS Specialist Nurse for Lothian, Scotland
£37,510 30/05/2018
The MS specialist nursing team at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh is the most overstretched in Scotland. There are 2,100 people with MS there who are facing severe problems in accessing an MS ....more
The October Club -
£500,000 31/10/2017
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - The First Year After Diagnosis: Making Sense of MS
£9,366 22/02/2017
To meet the needs of people in Scotland newly diagnosed with MS and also those in Scotland struggling with the disease on a daily basis via the production and distribution of 'Making Sense of MS', an ....more
Hazelhurst Trust - Grant
£5,000 05/09/2016
Research grant into MS
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - MS Specialist Nurse Training:Glasgow,Fife,Stirling
£4,950 25/05/2016
Funding for 3 new-in-post Scottish MS Specialist Nurses so that they may attend our Development Module in October 2016: 1) Pauline McDonald, MS Specialist Nurse, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Multiple Sclerosis Trust
£77,000 05/12/2013
36
towards three years' salary of an Information Officer to provide advice and services to people across the UK affected by MS and the health and social care professionals working with them
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 39-69
  • DAVID PHILPOT Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Director And General Counsel
  • JOANNE HUDSON Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Head Of Internal Communications
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 07/09/2001, number: 1088353
  • Registered at Companies House on 06/07/2001, number: 04247766
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
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • 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
20 returns made; all on time
Main office

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS TRUST
SPIRELLA BUILDING
BRIDGE ROAD
LETCHWORTH GARDEN CITY
SG6 4ET

Objectives

TO RELIEVE PEOPLE WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS PRIMARILY BY PROMOTING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROMOTION OF PROJECTS, EDUCATION AND RESEARCH WHICH HAVE A PATIENT BASED APPROACH AND WHICH ARE CONCERNED WITH THE CLINICAL MANAGEMENT OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS AND THE PUBLICATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH PROJECTS AND RESEARCH.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE NATIONAL.

Data Sources

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