Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 9
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 15 ?

LITTLE HEARTS MATTER 

Support & advice via telephone helplines, information on diagnoses & treatment, putting families in touch with others with similar experiences through regional support groups, updates & ongoing contact via regular members newsletters, education events for families to meet & learn from medical experts, raising the profile of these conditions etc., etc.,
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 16 years

www.lhm.org.uk

info@lhm.org.uk

01214558982

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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£443£413£30n/an/an/an/an/a40
31/12/21£430£361£69n/an/an/an/an/a40
31/12/20£470£345£125n/an/an/an/an/a40
31/12/19£467£393£74n/an/an/an/an/a40
31/12/18£334£359£-25£0£0£0n/a025
31/12/17£384£350£34£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/16£319£345£-26£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/15£324£337£-13£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/14£317£324£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/13£348£270£78£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/12£259£264£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/11£283£271£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/10£239£299£-60£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/09£281£316£-35£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/08£201£224£-23£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
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
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 40 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£165,000
BBC Children in Need£107,942
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£93,000
DCMS£17,988
Masonic Trust£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£10,000 22/03/2023
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Single ventricle heart disease and the transition to adulthood
£3,000 18/01/2023
Little Hearts Matter provides support when a child is diagnosed with a single ventricle heart condition (SVHD) – essentially half a working heart. This grant supports the charity's youth programme ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Creating Communities Reducing Isolation
£155,000 01/08/2022
The funding will be used to support people living with just a single ventricle heart condition to enable them to get advice guidance and support along with opportunities to build vital connections ....more
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Little Hearts Matter - 19/04/22
£2,500 23/05/2022
Core Funding
The Grocers' Charity - 2022-Little Hearts Matter
£4,000 16/12/2021
Towards core cost to part-fund their service and awareness costs.
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Little Hearts Matter - 12/04/21
£1,250 21/04/2021
Core Funding
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Little Hearts Matter - Youth Work Development
£90,000 08/03/2021
Little Hearts Matter provides support when a child is diagnosed with a single ventricle heart condition (SVHD), half a working heart. This grant supports the charity's Youth programme to strengthen ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Little Hearts Matter
£107,942 15/12/2020
Little Hearts Matter will provide relief and mentoring support to children who have a single ventricle heart and their families working across the United Kingdom.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£8,370 26/06/2020
"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
DCMS - UK Youth Fund YAF
£6,412 28/02/2020
Half a Heart Youth Workshops
DCMS - UK Youth Fund YAF
£3,206 28/02/2020
Half a Heart Youth Workshops. The wider aim of the scheme is: To deliver onward grants to increase positive activities for young people by delivering extra sessions in youth clubs for the financial ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - In Memory Project
£10,000 31/05/2019
12
The funding will be used to provide a support services for families experiencing bereavement due to single ventricle heart condition. The project aims to aid families in coping with loss and grief.
National Lottery Community Fund - Helping Families to Stay Connected
£105,257 20/03/2019
36
A full-time role of Membership Social Media Support Lead will be funded. This will help utilise the organisation's social media and website communication services across England. The new role will ....more
Heart Of England Community Foundation - Family Support Project (West Midlands)
£8,000 19/12/2018
11
Grant to Little Hearts Matter
Robertson Trust - The Scotland PGL Activity Weekend
£2,500 21/11/2018
The Scotland PGL Activity Weekend
Masonic Trust - Core funding
£5,000 18/10/2017
Advice, information and support for children, young people and families affected by single ventricle heart condition.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Little Hearts Matter
£35,000 29/06/2011
the salary costs of the Youth Project Leader including recruitment,equipment and travel costs
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 29-50
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 20/03/2008, number: 1123290
  • Registered at Companies House on 30/11/2007, number: 06442071
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
15 returns made; all on time
Main office

Little Hearts Matter
40 Vicarage Road
Edgbaston
BIRMINGHAM
B15 3EZ

Objectives

3.1) TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF AND SUPPORT FOR PERSONS AFFECTED BY A SINGLE VENTRICLE HEART CONDITION;3.2) TO SUPPORT FAMILIES OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AFFECTED BY A SINGLE VENTRICLE HEART CONDITION; AND3.3) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND THE MEDICAL PROFESSION ON THE SUBJECT OF SINGLE VENTRICLE HEART CONDITIONS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FAMILY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE, THROUGHOUT ENGLAND & WALES

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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