Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 10
  • Excess liquidity: -1
  • Fundraising costs high: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

HEEL AND TOE LTD 

Heel & Toe Children's Charity provides therapy to children with Cerebral Palsy and other physical disabilities.Our highly experienced therapy service can provide assessments, block treatments or regular 1.1 sessions. Specific aims and outcomes will be discussed during assessment and goals set.We have a SEN Tutoring service. This service can help your child to overcome learning barriers.
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
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appeared to be in excess of CC guidelines at the latest year end especially considering the historic stability of income
  • Fundraising costs are high relative to funds raised
Established: 16 years

www.heelandtoe.org.uk

info@heelandtoe.org.uk

01913868606

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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
31/12/23£910£984£-75£107£1,619£1,54318.82455
31/12/22£864£910£-45£100£1,694£1,65421.82538
31/12/21£873£844£29£74£1,738£1,44220.52423
31/12/20£1,200£796£404£11£1,714£1,45421.9228
31/12/19£1,020£792£228£118£1,190£9911519105
31/12/18£821£909£-88£95£962£93612.4180
31/12/17£995£560£435£64£1,057£60312.9190
31/12/16£633£542£91£58£622£57112.6180
31/12/15?£1,042£869£173£15£582£5337.4190
30/06/14£864£569£295£8£409£3988.4190
30/06/13£428£420£8£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/12£366£359£7£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/11£304£250£55£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/10£185£167£18£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/09£98£72£26£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 24.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 10.9%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 19%
Liabilities/Income: 42%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 95%
Reserves/Spending: 18.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: 8.7
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Darlington, Durham, Gateshead, Hartlepool, Newcastle Upon Tyne City, North Tyneside, North Yorkshire, Northumberland, South Tyneside, Sunderland,
Who it helps
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • 24 employees
  • 55 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£88,174
Masonic Trust£70,231
DCMS£61,568
The Clothworkers Foundation£42,400
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Masonic Trust - MCF Large Grant
£60,231 20/09/2023
The Hippotherapy project
National Lottery Community Fund - Hippotherapy for Children with Disabilities in the North East
£9,179 05/11/2021
The funding will be used to deliver a trial programme of hippotherapy sessions for children with disabilities. This will provide physiotherapy and therapeutic treatments with the aim to improve the ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Maintaining access to therapy for children with disabilities (North East)
£61,789 03/03/2021
12
The funding will allow the project to continue providing weekly one-to-one video therapy sessions to children with disabilities. The therapies include speech and language therapy physiotherapy and ....more
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£10,000 23/10/2020
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£61,568 18/06/2020
"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
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Heel and Toe
£2,400 11/06/2020
COVID19 : Purchase IT equipment for a charity that works with people who have physical and/or neurological disabilities in Durham
County Durham Community Foundation - Remote Therapy Support for Children with Disabilities in the North East
£5,000 30/04/2020
To provide Remote Therapy Support for Children with Disabilities in the North East.
National Lottery Community Fund - Remote Therapy Support for Children with Disabilities
£9,000 03/04/2020
11
The funding will be used to offer online video therapy sessions for children and young people with profound physical and neurological disabilities during Covid-19 as physical contact with their ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Introduction to Hydrotherapy Groups
£8,206 11/07/2019
12
The funding will be used to deliver hydrotherapy sessions for children with disabilities and their parents, to help improve their health and wellbeing.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Heel and Toe
£40,000 27/06/2019
construction of a therapy room for a charity which works with children with disabilities in Durham
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Heel & Toe Children's Charity
£5,111 19/11/2018
Help us build a specialised therapy centre in Perkinsville County Durham which will include a hydrotherapy pool.
National Lottery Community Fund - Massage for Movement
£9,884 28/02/2018
12
The group will deliver massage therapy sessions for children with disabilities including cerebral palsy and who have limited cognitive ability. This will help aid the movement, and physical and ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 23/10/2017
Perkinsville Hydrotherapy Centre
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 23/10/2017
top up of £10k
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Heel & Toe Children's Charity
£2,618 04/08/2017
Our sensory room requires new specialised equipment to help our disabled children develop their sensory skills.
National Lottery Community Fund - Development of our Reaching out to Children in Durham project
£288,506 03/11/2014
24
Not Available
National Lottery Community Fund - Reaching Out To Children
£241,163 15/03/2012
24
This new project will provide Conductive Education Therapy (CE) through outreach and additional centre based sessions, to disabled children suffering from cerebral palsy and any other motor ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 40-66
  • JOHN BRADY Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Shopping Centre Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 03/09/2008, number: 1125695
  • Registered at Companies House on 27/06/2008, number: 06632056
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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
  • 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
15 returns made; all on time
Main office

40 Front Street
Pelton
CHESTER LE STREET
County Durham
DH2 1DE

Objectives

TO PROVIDE RELIEF VIA CONDUCTIVE EDUCATION TO DISABLED CHILDREN AND ADULTS OF ALL AGES. SERVICES WE OFFER ARE NOT FREELY OFFERED BY THE HEALTH SERVICE, SOCIAL SERVICES OR AFFORDABLE BY THEIR FAMILIES.TO PROVIDE ADVICE, INFORMATION AND SUPPORT TO THE PARENTS AND /OR GUARDIANS, OR ADULTS WHO USE OUR SERVICE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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