Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 8
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Static board: -3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

BEACON: FOR RARE DISEASES LTD 

Findacure works to:Empower patient groups to build their patient community, develop as a charity, and drive treatment research and development.Promote collaboration between rare disease stakeholders to facilitate treatment development for all.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • 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: 11 years

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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
31/01/23*£324£390£-65n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/01/22£270£318£-48n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/01/21£325£196£129n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/01/20£187£194£-8n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/01/19£263£207£55n/an/an/an/an/a26
31/01/18£276£268£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/17£340£351£-11£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/16£254£226£28£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/15£100£60£41£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/14£41£23£18£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

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£433,822
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy£75,582
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - The Rare Disease Showcase Series 2023
£10,000 17/02/2023
The funding will be used to deliver an annual event focusing on research and care for people with rare diseases. This project aims to bring together professionals and those facing the diseases to ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - The Empowerment Programme: Phase 2
£403,822 20/01/2023
The project will provide free training & support to rare disease patient groups. This funding will ensure everyone receives support through workshops mentoring and webinars to improve wellbeing.
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE EUROPEAN INNOVATION PLATFORM TO ENHANCE THE REPURPOSING OF MEDICINES FOR ALL
£75,582 01/04/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10039985
National Lottery Community Fund - The Rare Disease Showcase Series 2022
£10,000 28/10/2021
The funding will be used to deliver an annual event to showcase rare disease research and care for people living with rare diseases. The project aims to bring families and medical practitioners ....more
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation - Grant to Findacure
£5,000 01/05/2020
3
to increase their output of focus groups, webinars and e-Learning content to fill the immediate need faced by 600 people in their rare disease patient groups as a result of lockdown. Their response ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - The Showcase Series
£10,000 22/04/2020
12
The funding will be used to run the project's annual rare disease showcase event to bring people together with professionals clinicians and others to share knowledge and information. The project ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Empowerment Programme
£336,820 18/04/2019
36
The project will use funding to develop an empowerment programme which will build on their existing work, providing training and support services to people with rare diseases. The project will use ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Peer Mentoring Programme - Community Mentoring Event
£9,525 14/03/2018
12
This project will provide mentoring for rare disease patient groups, bringing members together to share learning, ideas and support. This will help the groups to develop their activities and drive ....more
Masonic Trust - Core funding
£5,000 21/02/2018
Provides advice, information and training for patient groups for people with rare diseases.
National Lottery Community Fund - Drug Repurposing for Rare Diseases
£27,600 21/10/2015
12
The funding will support feasibility work on the development of a social impact bond focussed on drug repurposing. This is using medicine and science already available for use in one disease to ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Training Videos for Rare Disease Patient Groups
£10,000 28/01/2015
12
Not Available
The Fore - Grant to Findacure
£20,000 31/05/2014
36
Grant funded the organisation to move forward in line with its strategy and to leverage new funding streams that were in process.
National Lottery Community Fund - Rare Disease Patient Empowerment Workshop
£10,000 18/07/2013
12
This is a project by an incorporated charity in Cambridge. The organisation will use the funding to host a two day event for people with rare diseases to access support and information from ....more
The Fore - Grant to Findacure
£10,000 30/04/2013
36
Grant enabled Findacure to organise the world’s first workshop on fundamental diseases, hosted by the University of Cambridge, bringing together leaders in the field. Funds also covered a Project ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 45-74
  • EDNA KISSMANN Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Strategic Communication Consultant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 07/11/2012, number: 1149646
  • Registered at Companies House on 10/08/2012, number: 08174973
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
10 returns made; AR23: 1 days late,
Main office

66 DEVONSHIRE ROAD
CAMBRIDGE
CB1 2BL

Objectives

(1) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN ALL AREAS RELATING TO FUNDAMENTAL DISEASES AND THEIR CAUSES, EFFECTS AND TREATMENTS; (2) TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF SUFFERERS OF FUNDAMENTAL DISEASES AND THEIR CARERS THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT, EDUCATION AND PRACTICAL ADVICE; (3) TO SUPPORT RESEARCH INTO THE CAUSES, EFFECTS, TREATMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF FUNDAMENTAL DISEASES AND THEIR APPLICATION TO COMMON DISEASES, AND DISSEMINATE THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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