Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 8
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Large volunteers +5
  • Grant maker support: +3
Overall GiG Score: 14 ?

FACIAL PALSY UK 

Facial Palsy UK aims to:Provide information and support for people living with facial palsy and their families.Raise funds to sponsor research in the diagnosis and treatment of facial palsy.Provide information and training to health care professionals to improve equity of services throughout England and Wales.Represent the facial palsy community through advocacy services and lobbying.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received modest backing from several 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 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

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
30/06/23£277£104£173n/an/an/an/an/a104
30/06/22£89£77£12n/an/an/an/an/a80
30/06/21£163£70£94n/an/an/an/an/a63
30/06/20£100£87£14n/an/an/an/an/a52
30/06/19£98£82£16n/an/an/an/an/a70
30/06/18£67£83£-16£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/17£123£98£25£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/16£107£67£40£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/15£94£66£27£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/14£55£42£13£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/13£26£41£-16£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 12 years

www.facialpalsy.org.uk

info@facialpalsy.org.uk

03000309333

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Specialty hospitals (incl psychiatric and substance abuse)
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 104 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
The Fore£5,000
DCMS£4,612
National Lottery Community Fund£2,688
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£4,612 30/09/2020
"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
National Lottery Community Fund - Virtual support for people with facial palsy in Wales
£2,688 30/09/2020
12
Facial Palsy UK will hold virtual support groups for people with facial palsy in Wales to help individuals deal with the psychological effect of the condition. £2688 will fund staff online support ....more
The Fore - RAFT COVID-19 response grant to Facial Palsy UK
£5,000 22/06/2020
36
Grant from The Fore's RAFT Immediate Response Fund to Facial Palsy UK, as part of The Fore's COVID-19 Response programme.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 10/11 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 33-74
  • BEN HAYNES Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Chartered Accountant
  • CHARLES NDUKA Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Consultant Plastic Reconstruct
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 16/07/2012, number: 1148115
  • Registered at Companies House on 15/06/2012, number: 08107184
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
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
11 returns made; all on time
Main office

Facial Palsy UK
Eventus
Sunderland Road
Northfields Industrial Estate
Market Deeping
PETERBOR

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND TO PRESERVE THE HEALTH OF PERSONS LIVING WITH FACIAL PALSY WHO ARE RESIDENT PERMANENTLY OR TEMPORARILY IN THE UK.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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