Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 2

Support Score: 5

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

Dynamic board: +3
Mainly female board: -1

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 9

LITTLELIFTS

A charity supporting women receiving chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy treatment for primary and secondary breast cancer.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received modest backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
There have been no income shortfalls in recent years
The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board is predominantly female

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
31/12/22	£449	£383	£66	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/12/21	£254	£253	£1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	25
31/12/20	£242	£144	£98	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	5
31/12/19	£153	£114	£38	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	5
31/12/18	£81	£55	£26	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	10
31/12/17	£50	£5	£45	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 7 years

www.littlelifts.org.uk

hello@littlelifts.org.uk

07944464864

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Disability

GiG Classification

Services for females

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
20 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

Crowdfunder	£13,641
National Lottery Community Fund	£10,000
DCMS	£9,846
Suffolk Community Foundation	£3,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Crowdfunder - Local Action Fund
£5,950	26/07/2022	Covid response
Crowdfunder - Local Action Fund
£7,691	05/05/2022	Covid response
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Littlelifts
£1,534	23/10/2021	With your help, we hope to support 540 women who will be receiving radiotherapy treatment for breast cancer in Norfolk with a littlelifts box, which offers practical support and mood-boosting goodies.
National Lottery Community Fund - support for people affected by breast cancer
£10,000	30/09/2021	The funding will be used to redesign and improve the group’s website presence. The project aims to increase their digital offer and capacity to meet an increased demand for people living with the ....more The funding will be used to redesign and improve the group’s website presence. The project aims to increase their digital offer and capacity to meet an increased demand for people living with the effects of breast cancer. The organisation provides those undergoing cancer treatment with 'little lifts boxes' which are are full of items carefully selected to provide patients with practical support as well as mood-boosting goodies to promote emotional wellbeing.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,846	17/08/2020	"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 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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."
Suffolk Community Foundation - Supporting women with incurable breast cancer
£3,000	29/04/2020 12	To provide 50 'littlelifts' boxes to women with breast cancer receiving chemotherapy at Ipswich Hospital

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 5/6 persons

PER HALL Appointed: 2020

ELLA WISBEY Appointed: 2016

JILL WARD Appointed: 2020

JONATHAN HALL Appointed: 2021

DR KARYN MAIER (Chair) Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Founder/Leadership Development Consultancy

ZOE HILL Appointed: 2022, Other trusteeship: AMBITION UNLOCKED,

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 14/12/2016, number: 1170737

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

6 returns made; all on time

Main office

LITTLELIFTS
4 Bawburgh Mill
Harts Lane
Norwich
Norfolk
NR9 3LS

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND SIDE EFFECTS TO EASE THE SUFFERING, BOTH MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY, OF CHEMOTHERAPY AND/OR RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT TO WOMEN AND MEN AGED 18 AND ABOVE WHO HAVE PRIMARY AND SECONDARY BREAST CANCER AND WHO ARE LIVING IN ENGLAND, WALES, SCOTLAND, NORTHERN ISLAND, CHANNEL ISLANDS OR ISLE OF MAN. IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY PROVIDING THEM WITH A LITTLELIFTS BOX AT THE START OF OR DURING THEIR CHEMOTHERAPY AND/OR RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE 'PRIMARY BREAST CANCER' MEANS THAT THE CANCER HAS NOT SPREAD BEYOND THE BREAST OR LYMPH NODES UNDER THE ARM.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE ‘SECONDARY BREAST CANCER’ MEANS THAT THE CANCER HAS SPREAD TO OTHER PARTS OF THE BODY BEYOND THE BREAST OR LYMPH NODES UNDER THE ARM.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE 'CHEMOTHERAPY' MEANS THE TREATMENT OF CANCER BY THE USE OF CHEMICAL SYSTEMIC ANTI-CANCER TREATMENT (SACT).FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE ‘RADIOTHERAPY’ MEANS THE TREATMENT OF HIGH-ENERGY X-RAYS TO DESTROY CANCER CELLS. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE SICKNESS AND SIDE EFFECTS CAN VARY AMONGST WOMEN AND MEN, BUT MOST COMMON ARE TIREDNESS, WEAKNESS, SICKNESS, SORE MOUTH, HAIR LOSS, SORE EYES, DRY/SORE SKIN, CONSTIPATION, DIARRHOEA, LOSS OF APPETITE AND LOSS OF TASTE. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE LITTLELIFTS BOXES WILL CONTAIN ITEMS AIMED TO RELIEVE SOME OF THE SIDE EFFECTS WOMEN AND MEN MAY EXPERIENCE AS WELL AS PROVIDING COMFORT AND WELL-BEING.

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