Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: -6
Support Score: 10
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • All female board: -3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 2 ?

FERTILITY NETWORK UK 

Infertility Network UK's provides support for all those affected by fertility challenges, at whatever point they are on their fertility journey, by providing free and impartial information, emotional and practical support.We provide information, advice and support via our website, a network of face-to-face and online support groups, and a support and information telephone service,
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 4 trustees
  • The Board is completely female
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

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£638£644£-6£0£382£1943.622226
31/03/22£452£426£25n/an/an/an/an/a133
31/03/21£468£350£118n/an/an/an/an/a150
31/03/20£324£361£-37n/an/an/an/an/a175
31/03/19£550£628£-77£0£282£851.618130
31/03/18£376£422£-46£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£462£425£37£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£373£343£29£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£416£302£114£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£285£354£-69£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£316£354£-37£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£403£326£77£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£350£334£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£395£302£93£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£302£262£40£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£275£262£14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£237£219£18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£214£226£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05?£424£338£86£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/04£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 12%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 38%
Liabilities/Income: 36%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 51%
Reserves/Spending: 3.6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 7 months
Quick Ratio: 2.6
Asset Split ?
Established: 21 years

www.fertilitynetworkuk.org

info@fertilitynetworkuk.org

01424732361

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Other specialist outpatient services
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
Who works here?
  • 22 employees
  • 226 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
National Lottery Community Fund£650,331
DCMS£44,995
City Bridge Trust£6,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - FNUK Support Network England
£276,959 10/02/2022
The funding will be used to deliver peer support through face to face online and social media groups for individuals and couples in England who are challenged by fertility issues. It will support the ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£44,995 22/09/2020
"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
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Fertility Network UK
£6,500 11/06/2020
£6,500 towards the increased hours of the London Co-ordinator over the next three months
National Lottery Community Fund - Fertility Support Network for Wales
£363,403 27/09/2019
59
Fertility Support Network for Wales
National Lottery Community Fund - Digital Connections
£9,969 18/07/2019
12
The funding will be used to further develop and implement a digital communication support strategy for people affected by infertility. The project aims to build new resources and enable people with ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Fertility Support Network for Wales
£9,849 15/01/2019
12
Project Summary :_x000D_ The Infertility Network (UK) will use the grant to work with people who face fertility issues throughout Wales. They will expand their support groups, whilst also providing ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Construction of a new website
£10,000 02/12/2015
12
This charity will use the funding to construct a new website to facilitate the organisation’s rebranding, overcome current technical issues and support cross platform hosting. This will enable ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Infertility support network for Wales
£88,938 29/07/2015
33
Infertility support network for Wales
National Lottery Community Fund - Redesign of Current Website in Order to Extend Services to our Users
£10,000 04/04/2012
12
This is a project by an incorporated charity in East Sussex. The organisation will use the funding to upgrade its website and add new services such as a newsfeed and links to social networking sites. ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 36-46
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 09/10/2003, number: 1099960
  • Registered at Companies House on 05/07/2003, number: 04822073
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
  • 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
  • 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
Main office

McPhersons Chartered Accountants
23 St. Leonards Road
BEXHILL-ON-SEA
East Sussex
TN40 1HH

Objectives

(I) TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM INFERTILITY PARTICULARLY THROUGH THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION, ADVICE AND SUPPORT;(II) TO SUPPORT THE PROVISION OF AN EQUITABLE SYSTEM OF PUBLICLY-FUNDED FERTILITY TREATMENT THROUGHOUT THE UK FOR ALL SUFFERS OF INFERTILITY, SUB-FERTILITY AND SECONDARY FERTILITY;(III) TO SUPPORT THE NEEDS OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM INFERTILITY THROUGH, INTER ALIA, THE PROVISION OF A NETWORK OF LOCAL SUPPORT GROUPS, A COUNSELLING SERVICE, A WEBSITE AND A REGULAR MAGAZINE;(IV) TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION ABOUT ALL ASPECTS OF FERTILITY AND INFERTILITY;(V) TO RAISE THE PROFILE OF ISSUES CONCERNING FERTILITY AND INFERTILITY IN THE MEDIA AND IN GENERAL, IN AN INFORMED, RESPONSIBLE MANNER;(VI) TO ENCOURAGE AND ASSIST FURTHER RESEARCH IN ITS BROADEST SENSE INTO INFERTILITY AND ITS VARIOUS EFFECTS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

THROUGHOUT THE UK

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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