Finance Score: -3

Governance Score: -6

Support Score: 5

Volatile income: -3
No PartB

No conflicts policy: -1
Narrow trustee age band: -2
All male board: -3

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: -4

FOOTSTEPS FOUNDATION

Provide funding for disabled children to attend intensive physiotherapy sessions at the Footsteps Centre.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
The Board is completely male
The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Income has been volatile recently

Established: 16 years

http://footstepscentre.com/footsteps-foundati

info@footstepsfoundation.com

01865343851

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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	£169	£189	£-20	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	15
31/12/21	£196	£167	£29	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	15
31/12/20	£299	£182	£118	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	15
31/12/19	£214	£214	£-1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	15
31/12/18	£208	£227	£-19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	15
31/12/17	£224	£228	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/16	£229	£273	£-44	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/15	£231	£232	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/14	£258	£239	£19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/13	£323	£281	£43	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/12	£283	£238	£45	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/11	£188	£171	£16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/10	£192	£113	£79	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/09	£133	£102	£31	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/08	£37	£14	£23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Disability
General Charitable Purposes
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

How it operates

Makes Grants to Individuals
Makes Grants to Organisations

Where it operates

Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
People With Disabilities

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
15 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	£36,000
Garfield Weston Foundation	£30,000
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund	£30,000
Co-Operative Group	£3,117

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Footsteps Helping Hand Project
£9,500	25/11/2022	This project will support disabled children from around England through offering a centre of excellence providing specialist intensive therapy programmes. The funding aims to improve the quality of ....more This project will support disabled children from around England through offering a centre of excellence providing specialist intensive therapy programmes. The funding aims to improve the quality of life for children with neurological conditions resulting in better mobility increased confidence and more independence enabling them to reach their full potential.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£15,000	19/11/2021	Footsteps Foundation Physiotherapy
National Lottery Community Fund - Footsteps Foundation Helping Hand
£9,000	30/09/2021	The funding will support families with disabled children by providing intensive one to one physiotherapy. It helps lower income families to access support and this project will offer support for ....more The funding will support families with disabled children by providing intensive one to one physiotherapy. It helps lower income families to access support and this project will offer support for these families by helping out with fuel costs and with accommodation costs in the South Oxon area.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Footsteps Foundation
£3,117	24/10/2020	We would like to help disabled children get stronger and more mobile with our special physiotherapy sessions.
National Lottery Community Fund - Footsteps Spider Project
£9,000	22/10/2020 6	The funding will be used to continue providing physiotherapy sessions for children living with disabilities. The project aims to enable the service to keep going and supporting children’s progress ....more The funding will be used to continue providing physiotherapy sessions for children living with disabilities. The project aims to enable the service to keep going and supporting children’s progress after the impact of Covid-19.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£15,000	02/10/2020	Footsteps Foundation Physiotherapy
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Footsteps Foundation
£30,000	10/10/2019 48	Main Grant unrestricted core costs
National Lottery Community Fund - The Helping Hands Project
£8,500	11/07/2019 12	The organisation will provide support to families of younger people with disabilities such as cerebral palsy in need of specialist intensive physiotherapy support, and will enable people to access ....more The organisation will provide support to families of younger people with disabilities such as cerebral palsy in need of specialist intensive physiotherapy support, and will enable people to access the services who are financially disadvantaged.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000	05/12/2018	Footsteps Foundation Physiotherapy services
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Footsteps Foundation
£3,053	29/11/2017	We want to give special shoes to disabled children and help them learn to walk.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards intensive physiotherapy services
£1,500	24/02/2016	Towards intensive physiotherapy services for low-income families with disabled children.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards the family grants project for intensive physiotherapy
£1,000	31/07/2014	Towards the family grants project for intensive physiotherapy for disabled children and young adults in Oxfordshire.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Intensive Physiotherapy Sessions
£4,800	22/02/2010	Towards intensive physiotherapy sessions for children and young people with neurological disorders.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees:

ANGUS DAWSON Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Senior First Officer

CHRISTIAN GURTH HOYER MILLAR MA HONS, Occupation: Company Director

CHRISTIAN HOYER MILLAR Appointed: 2008, Occupation: Company Director

MRS PIP HOYER MILLAR

TIM HALFHEAD Appointed: 2013, Occupation: None

THOMAS CHRISTIAN HOYER MILLAR Appointed: 2020

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 03/04/2008, number: 1123440
Registered at Companies House on 02/11/2007, number: 06416481

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

15 returns made; all on time

Main office

4 QUEEN STREET
DORCHESTER ON THAMES
WALLINGFORD
OXFORDSHIRE
OX10 7HR

Objectives

THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH AND PHYSICAL MOBILITY GENERALLY OF ALL PERSONS AND THE RELIEF OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM ANY DISABILITY AS WELL AS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR MINDS AND IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THE ADVANCEMENT OF PHYSICAL HEALTH AND MOBILITY FOR DISABLED CHILDREN

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED, IN PRACTICE NATIONAL

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