Finance Score: 6

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 4

Liabilities <10%: +3
Fundraising costs low: +3

Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +4

Overall GiG Score: 13

DREAMFLIGHT

Dreamflight provides children with a serious illness or disability between the ages of 8-14 with their holiday of a lifetime to the theme parks of Orlando, Florida. The experience of being away from home, often for the first time, enables them to enjoy a degree of independence and they return more confident as a result of their achievements.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers recently
This charity has a robust balance sheet
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Financial issues to consider:

Liquidity appeared to be considerably in excess of CC guidelines at the latest year end but spending has been increasing rapidly

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	£1,546	£1,456	£90	£16	£2,807	£2,807	23.1	5	200
31/03/22	£423	£311	£112	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	200
31/03/21	£504	£353	£150	£2	£2,630	£2,630	89.3	4	200
31/03/20	£1,566	£1,287	£279	£28	£2,217	£2,217	20.7	7	200
31/03/19	£1,376	£1,185	£192	£26	£2,071	£2,071	21	6	200
31/03/18	£1,098	£1,237	£-139	£24	£1,832	£1,832	17.8	5	0
31/03/17	£1,018	£1,108	£-89	£148	£1,976	£1,976	21.4	5	0
31/03/16	£1,060	£929	£131	£40	£1,925	£1,922	24.8	5	0
31/03/15	£1,058	£973	£86	£20	£1,811	£1,811	22.3	4	0
31/03/14	£1,112	£1,001	£112	£17	£1,641	£1,641	19.7	4	0
31/03/13	£797	£985	£-188	£13	£1,488	£1,488	18.1	2	0
31/03/12	£725	£806	£-82	£12	£1,588	£1,588	23.6	2	0
31/03/11	£782	£884	£-102	£12	£1,675	£1,675	22.7	3	0
31/03/10	£664	£755	£-91	£12	£1,743	£1,743	27.7	2	0
31/03/09	£1,042	£668	£374	£11	£1,700	£1,700	30.5	2	0
31/03/08	£547	£766	£-219	£12	£1,434	£1,434	22.5	2	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 1.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 1.1%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 5%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 1%
Liabilities/Income: 1%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 23.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 33.1

Asset Split ?

Established: 17 years

www.dreamflight.org

office@dreamflight.org

01494722733

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Disability
Recreation

GiG Classification

Services for people with disabilities

How it operates

Other charitable activities

Where it operates

Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People

Who works here?

5 employees
200 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
Wates Foundation - DreamFlight - RWF May 2023
£11,904	17/05/2023	Each year Dreamflight takes a plane full of children (with a serious illness or disability) to Orlando for 10 days. The trip gives them a chance to discover independence, confidence and a whole new ....more Each year Dreamflight takes a plane full of children (with a serious illness or disability) to Orlando for 10 days. The trip gives them a chance to discover independence, confidence and a whole new outlook on life. The aim of our project each year is to give 192 children (from 12 separate regions of the UK) a holiday of a lifetime. During the trip, we visit a different theme park or attraction each day (eg Universal Studios, Hollywood Studios, SeaWorld etc) and provide entertainment each morning and evening. Dreamflight aims to help these children realise their potential by doing something medicine can't: give confidence, independence and a sense of fun. With the help of our team of volunteer doctors, nurses, physiotherapists and other volunteers we take the children (without parents) on a 'holiday of a lifetime'. They meet others in a similar situation, develop lifelong friendships and, for once, are not the "odd one out". This grant of £10,000 would fund tickets for all 192 children for a whole day in Universal Studios; which is the favourite park consistently when we survey the children after the trip. The cost of each child ticket on our last trip (just for Universal Studios) was £52 x 192 = £9984. This year, we are expecting that cost to rise slightly.
The Grocers' Charity - 2022-Dreamflight
£1,865	22/06/2022	Towards a life time trip for children

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 55-79

DAVID GAWN Appointed: 2011, Occupation: Group General Manager

GAYLENE JENNEFER KENDALL Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Accountant

PATRICIA MARY PEARCE Appointed: 2006, Occupation: Retired

PROFESSOR SIMON BAILEY, Other trusteeship: CHILDREN WITH CANCER IN MALAWI,

ROBERT BASS Appointed: 2006, Occupation: Solicitor, Other trusteeship: BELRON RONNIE LUBNER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 19/12/2006, number: 1117303
Registered at Companies House on 11/10/2006, number: 05963834

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

16 returns made; all on time

Main office

15 CHILTERN COURT
ASHERIDGE ROAD
CHESHAM
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
HP5 2PX

Objectives

TO RELIEVE YOUNG PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF 18 YEARS WHO ARE PHYSICALLY OR MENTALLY DISABLED OR WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF POVERTY, SICKNESS OR DISTRESS AND IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING BY THE PROVISION OF HOLIDAYS

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL

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