Finance Score: -1

Governance Score: 1

Support Score: 5

Reasonable growth: +1
Multiple Deficits: -2
No PartB

No volunteer policy: -2
Good trustee age range: +3
Static board: -3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 5

MELANOMA FOCUS

Melanoma Focus is a national charity dedicated to providing a comprehensive and authoritative source of information about this most deadly form of skin cancer. The charity funds education and independent research projects, acts as an advocate for patients and carers, informs the general public and promotes the professional interests of clinicians, scientists & nurses working in the melanoma field.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
The Board composition appears to be rather static

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Established: 16 years

www.melanomafocus.org

info@melanomafocus.org

01223 324 359

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
31/01/23		£352	£355	£-3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	19
31/01/22		£386	£352	£34	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	19
31/01/21		£263	£245	£18	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/01/20		£220	£285	£-65	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/01/19		£170	£238	£-68	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/01/18		£143	£233	£-91	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/01/17		£252	£232	£21	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/01/16		£210	£409	£-200	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/01/15		£136	£220	£-84	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/01/14		£212	£167	£45	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/01/13		£397	£28	£368	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/01/12	*	£35	£6	£29	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/01/11	*	£299	£9	£290	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/01/10	*	£5	£10	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/01/09	*	£0	£0	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Education/Training
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

How it operates

Makes Grants to Organisations
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Other Defined Groups
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
19 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
The Fore - Grant to Melanoma Focus
£28,132	06/07/2021 24	Melanoma Focus (MF) is a national Registered Charity founded in 2012 in memory and in recognition of the work of Professor Sheila Bingham (Rodwell),who died of melanoma in 2009. MF’s mission is to ....more Melanoma Focus (MF) is a national Registered Charity founded in 2012 in memory and in recognition of the work of Professor Sheila Bingham (Rodwell),who died of melanoma in 2009. MF’s mission is to commission and fund innovative research, while providing support and information topatients, carers,and healthcare professionals.Under their guidance,MF provides a suite of effective and reassuring patient and professional-focused support services,based on expert knowledge and practice. MF is using funding from The Fore to purchase a CRM system to help it meet its existing and future needs.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000	12/08/2020	"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 "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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£75,000	05/12/2018	Revenue/Core costs

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 45-65

ALAN HOWARD SKYRME PEACH Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Consultant Plastic Surgeon

DR MARK HARRIES (Chair) Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Consultant Medical Oncologist

DR PAUL NATHAN, Occupation: Medical Consultant

DR PHILIPPA GAIL CORRIE Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Consultant Medical Oncologist

DR SAMRA TURAJLIC Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Consultant Medical Oncologist, Other trusteeship: KIDNEY CANCER SUPPORT NETWORK,

IMOGEN CHEESE Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Company Director

JACQUELINE ANNE HODGETTS Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Nurse Clinician

PROFESSOR CATHERINE ANNE HARWOOD Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Consultant Dermatologist

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 26/06/2008, number: 1124716
Registered at Companies House on 18/01/2007, number: 06057181

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Filing Record

15 returns made; AR12: 20 days late, AR11: 20 days late, AR10: 60 days late, AR09: 408 days late,

Main office

SALISBURY HOUSE
STATION ROAD
CAMBRIDGE
CB1 2LA

Objectives

The Objects of the Charity are(a) to promote research into the causes and the treatment of melanoma for the public benefit; and(b) to raise awareness and advance education in relation to melanoma and its prevention, both to the general public and within the medical and scientific community, by:• producing, collecting, maintaining and disseminating information and materials about the disease, its treatment, the minimisation of risk in relation to it, and its prevention; and• supporting the development of clinical guidelines and consensus positions about the treatment of all forms of melanoma, and improving the efficiency, skill and knowledge of health professionals working in the melanoma field.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE ITALY, FRANCE, GERMANY, BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS, SPAIN, FINLAND, SWEDEN, NORWAY.

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