Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 5
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Excess reserves: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 9 ?

MERLIN NEURO THERAPY CENTRE LTD 

A centre of excellence in Cornwall providing a range of expert care,support and therapies for those living with Multiple Sclerosis and other neurological conditions;and for their families and their friends
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • This charity has substantial assets and unrestricted reserves of £1,234,519 available, equivalent to 26 months of spending and so may not be able to utilise additional funding
Established: 22 years

www.merlinmscentre.org.uk

manager@merlinmscentre.org.uk

01726885530

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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
31/12/22£685£578£107£74£3,294£1,23525.61350
31/12/21£749£456£293£58£3,185£1,24432.81350
31/12/20£580£459£120£84£2,886£91523.91480
31/12/19£588£725£-136£176£2,762£74812.427130
31/12/18£812£774£38£209£2,898£92414.329130
31/12/17£510£680£-170£113£2,861£1,07218.9240
31/12/16£1,225£579£646£119£3,030£1,29226.8130
31/12/15£1,072£461£612£130£2,384£67917.700
31/12/14£412£415£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/13£362£385£-23£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/12*£297£404£-106£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/11£411£294£117£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/10£239£245£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/09£275£220£55£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/08£814£33£781£33£1,738£1,737631.100
31/12/07£244£42£203£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/06£211£49£163£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/05£195£33£161£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/04£148£22£126£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 15.3%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 12.9%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 1%
Liabilities/Income: 5%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 37%
Reserves/Spending: 25.6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 9 months
Quick Ratio: 11.1
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Cornwall,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • 13 employees
  • 50 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
DCMS£25,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£25,000
Sport England£13,160
National Lottery Community Fund£8,800
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Merlin MS Centre
£2,037 21/10/2023
The Merlin MS Centre provides support and services to anyone with a neurological condition in Cornwall. We want to install solar panels at the Centre, reducing our carbon emissions and energy costs.
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£1,000 31/10/2022
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Merlin MS Centre - 16/03/22
£2,500 07/04/2022
Core Funding
Sport England - COVID19 Return to Play
£8,160 17/02/2022
Funding under Sport England's Return to Play - Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID19 Return to Play. This project is a Exercise & Fitness project, with a focus on ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Merlin MS Centre
£2,249 23/10/2021
We'd like to buy PPE to reopen our centre safely to protect staff, volunteers and service users, so we can continue to improve the health and wellbeing of our community.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 01/10/2021
Merlin MS Centre Funding Gap
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£1,000 02/06/2021
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
The Grocers' Charity - 2021 - from R1 - Merlin MS Centre
£4,500 04/02/2021
Towards project costs for in-home support of 220 service users, the most vulnerable due to health, age, isolation or lack of neighbourhood/family support during the pandemic.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£25,000 19/08/2020
"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
Sport England - COVID-19 CEF
£5,000 02/06/2020
4
Funding under Sport England's COVID-19 Community Emergency Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID-19 CEF. This project lists its main activity as Sport participation and capacity ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - COVID-19 Keep In Touch Project
£8,800 09/04/2020
12
The funding will be used to provide essential remote support for vulnerable and isolated people who experience Multiple Sclerosis and have complex health needs and now need to self isolate. The small ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 18/12/2018
Hydrotherapy Equipment
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Transport for Merlin MS Centre
£10,000 02/11/2018
12
The funding will be used for fuel and servicing costs of the group's minibus which transports people living with neurological to their respite care service. The project aims to provide access to ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Transport for Merlin MS Centre
£10,000 13/09/2017
12
The funding will be used to support people living with multiple sclerosis by maintain their minibuses. These are used to transport people to a centre which offers support, therapies and respite care, ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£40,000 24/07/2017
Merlin MS Centre Hydrotherapy Pool Capital Appeal
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Merlin MS Centre
£100,000 11/07/2017
construction of a hydrotherapy pool for a charity which works with disabled people in Cornwall
Sport England - RENEW Fitness Programme
£10,000 05/04/2013
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'RENEW Fitness Programme'. This project lists its main activity as Exercise & Fitness.
National Lottery Community Fund - Core Renew Fitness Programme
£10,000 06/10/2011
12
This is a project by a charity in St Austell, Cornwall. The group will use the funding to provide an exercise programme for people with multiple sclerosis. This will aid the beneficiaries' mobility, ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 7/8 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 35-77
  • TOM SNEDDON (Chair) Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Company Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 04/09/2002, number: 1093691
  • Registered at Companies House on 13/06/2002, number: 04460611
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR12: 28 days late,
Main office

Merlin M S Centre
Bradbury House
Hewas Water
ST. AUSTELL
PL26 7JF

Objectives

The objects of the Charity are to relieve sickness and to preserve and protect the physical and mental health of individuals with neurological conditions (including but not limited to multiple sclerosis), and people with neurodiversity, in such ways as the trustees think fit, in particular but not exclusively by the provision of assessments and therapies, advice, guidance, counselling, and other support services and facilities delivered at a purpose-built Centre in Cornwall and at other appropriate settings, and by using digital platforms.

Defined Area of Benefit:

CORNWALL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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