Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 12
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 23 ?

NATIONAL PARALYMPIC HERITAGE TRUST 

'We exist to enlighten and inspire future generations by celebrating, cherishing and bringing the Paralympic heritage and its stories of human endeavour to life'.The National Paralympic Heritage Trust has been formed as part of the London 2012 legacy, to ensure this important British Heritage is safeguarded and shared.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

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

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
31/03/23£377£454£-77n/an/an/an/an/a34
31/03/22£375£337£38n/an/an/an/an/a35
31/03/21£224£253£-29n/an/an/an/an/a27
31/03/20*£319£214£105n/an/an/an/an/a17
31/03/19£274£172£102n/an/an/an/an/a50
31/03/18£260£128£132£0£0£0n/a00
30/03/17£5£0£5£0£0£0NAN00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 8 years

www.paralympicheritage.org.uk

vicky.hopewalker@paralympicheritage.org.uk

01442825010

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Museums, parks, historical sites
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 34 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
Rothschild Foundation£235,000
Wolfson Foundation£125,000
National Lottery Heritage Fund£83,720
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to National Paralympic Heritage Trust
£125,000 06/12/2023
Virtual museum
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to National Paralympic Heritage Trust
£83,720 25/09/2023
‘Becoming Seamlessly Inclusive’ - celebrating Paralympic sport for sensory needs, cerebral palsy and dwarfism
Rothschild Foundation - Grant to National Paralympic Heritage Trust
£210,000 03/07/2023
Developing NPHT collections through digital innovation, training & empowering disabled people to curate Paralympic & disability heritage locally; and nurturing/cultivating young SEND talent ....more
Rothschild Foundation - Grant to National Paralympic Heritage Trust
£25,000 22/07/2021
Funding for the National Paralympic Heritage Trust’s Digital Explorations project, requiring admin support, additional training days and Covid-safe adaptations, as well as support to commercial ....more
Spirit of 2012 - National Paralympic Museum
£5,000 18/01/2017
Funding to support a National Paralympic Heritage Regional Exhibition in Norwich. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to National Paralympic Heritage Trust
£1,289,500 08/12/2015
National Paralympic Heritage Trust

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: 41-83
  • SOPHIE PAYNE Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Director, Local Government
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 03/02/2016, number: 1165416
  • Registered at Companies House on 07/09/2015, number: 09765432
Gift Aid
  • NOT 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
  • 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
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
7 returns made; AR20: 30 days late,
Main office

National Paralympic Heritage Trust
Stoke Mandeville Sports Stadium
Harvey Road
AYLESBURY
Buckinghamshire
HP21 9PP

Objectives

1.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:1.1.1 THE ADVANCEMENT OF CULTURE AND HERITAGE, AND IN PARTICULAR THE CULTURE AND HERITAGE OF THE PARALYMPIC MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE ROLE OF STOKE MANDEVILLE AS THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE PARALYMPIC MOVEMENT, AND THE PROMOTION OF PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING AND ENJOYMENT OF THE SAME; AND1.1.2 THE PROMOTION OF POSITIVE PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS AND GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF DISABILITY AT BOTH NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LEVELS.1.2 THE CHARITY MAY ALSO ADVANCE SUCH OTHER PURPOSES THAT ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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