Finance Score: -3

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 0

Liabilities <10%: +3
Poor Liquidity: -1
Good Reserves: +1Spending declining: -1
Multiple Deficits and declines: -5

Good trustee age range: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +0

Overall GiG Score: 3

TREE OF HOPE

Tree of Hope is the fundraising charity that helps children and young people with a disability or illness by supporting their families to raise the money they need to pay for specialist operations, equipment, therapies and services that is not freely available through the UK healthcare system.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers recently
This charity has a robust balance sheet
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Financial issues to consider:

Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end but unrestricted reserves are available
Spending is declining
Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

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
30/09/23	£1,266	£1,474	£-208	£131	£3,811	£1,780	14.5	9	100
30/09/22	£1,746	£1,922	£-176	£112	£3,907	£1,698	10.6	10	100
30/09/21	£1,451	£1,540	£-89	£148	£4,169	£1,738	13.5	8	100
30/09/20	£1,634	£1,557	£77	£97	£3,483	£697	5.4	8	100
30/09/19	£1,464	£1,953	£-489	£116	£3,221	£1,203	7.4	9	100
30/09/18	£1,711	£2,722	£-1,011	£133	£3,502	£715	3.2	10	0
30/09/17	£2,354	£2,835	£-481	£153	£4,232	£0	n/a	10	0
30/09/16	£2,378	£3,310	£-932	£187	£4,467	£-1,340	-4.9	8	0
30/09/15	£5,147	£4,052	£1,094	£758	£5,026	£-1,171	-3.5	5	0
30/09/14	£5,175	£3,250	£1,925	£549	£4,161	£1,323	4.9	3	0
30/09/13	£4,465	£2,289	£2,176	£251	£2,176	£819	4.3	2	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 11.6%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 8.9%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 7%
Highest pay band: £80,000-£90,000
Liabilities/Assets: 5%
Liabilities/Income: 14%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 47%
Reserves/Spending: 14.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: -1 months
Quick Ratio: 0.4

Asset Split ?

Established: 12 years

www.treeofhope.org.uk

info@treeofhope.org.uk

01892535525

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

GiG Classification

Education support services

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Other charitable activities
Provides services

Where it operates

Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People

Who works here?

9 employees
100 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
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£250	15/11/2021	Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£750	28/01/2021	Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Tree of Hope - Matthew Penfound
£3,869	19/11/2018	Money will go towards providing sensory equipment and raising awareness of meningitis in the local community.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Tree of Hope
£3,168	04/08/2017	Tree of Hope's work helps hundreds of children to have better health and quality of life every year through fundraising for medical care.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 33-70

ELIZABETH ANNE DUNMALL Appointed: 2021, Occupation: None

LAURA JENNIE SMITH Appointed: 2021, Occupation: None

ALEXANDRA NOBLE Appointed: 2017, Occupation: None

CHARLOTTE EBERLEIN Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Head Of Marketing & Business Development

DUNCAN MASON Appointed: 2018, Occupation: None

KEVIN WERRY (Chair) Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Management Consultant

ROBERT LAY Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Director

SEAN THOMPSON Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Managing Director

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 09/10/2012, number: 1149254
Registered at Companies House on 20/08/2012, number: 08184807

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Investment
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
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

11 returns made; all on time

Main office

Tree of Hope
61-63 Camden Road
TUNBRIDGE WELLS
Kent
TN1 2QE

Objectives

THE PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH AND RELIEF OF SICKNESS OF SICK AND DISABLED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE UNDER THE AGE OF 25 YEARS RESIDENT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IRELAND IN PARTICULAR WITHOUT LIMITATION BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF SERVICES AND GRANTS TO ENABLE THEM TO OBTAIN MEDICAL TREATMENT, THERAPIES AND EQUIPMENT WHICH WOULD NOT OTHERWISE BE AVAILABLE TO THEM.

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IRELAND

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