Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 8
Support Score: 10
  • Large legacies income: +1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs high: -2
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 15 ?

STROKE ASSOCIATION

THE CHARITY OPERATES THROUGHOUT THE UK. WE PROVIDE SUPPORT SERVICES TO EVERYONEAFFECTED BY STROKE, INCLUDING FAMILIES AND CARERS. WE RAISE AWARENESS OF STROKE AND CAMPAIGN FOR BETTER EMERGENCY, REHABILITATION AND SUPPORT SERVICES. WE INVEST IN STROKE RESEARCH TO HELP REDUCE THE INCIDENCE OF STROKE, TO FIND THE BEST TREATMENT AND LONG TERM CARE AND IMPROVE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR STROKE SURVIVORS.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • This charity has received considerable income from legacies in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why are there 13 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12?

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • Fundraising costs are high relative to funds raised

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£40,421£38,105£2,316£8,034£34,949£32,14210.17391,433
31/03/22£41,162£31,597£9,565£6,806£33,120£28,81910.95822,000
31/03/21£34,573£34,125£448£7,530£21,411£18,0536.36442,500
31/03/20£35,618£38,493£-2,875£8,016£18,754£15,4304.86773,000
31/03/19£35,044£38,198£-3,154£7,864£21,876£18,4615.86843,000
31/03/18£35,015£35,785£-770£8,502£23,798£20,79676600
31/03/17£37,322£37,186£136£9,015£24,388£21,2986.96710
31/03/16£36,493£36,746£-253£9,133£21,545£19,3046.36490
31/03/15£37,496£22,514£14,982£8,021£22,514£20,76911.16490
31/03/14£33,546£31,930£1,616£7,765£17,041£14,9875.66350
31/03/13£31,051£31,450£-399£7,509£14,902£13,3145.16190
31/03/12£30,587£32,510£-1,923£7,366£13,495£11,8024.46340
31/03/11£32,126£31,235£891£6,557£15,701£14,1325.46220
31/03/10£28,672£26,950£1,722£5,559£14,256£13,5966.15320
31/03/09£22,133£22,823£-690£5,051£9,346£8,8144.64210
31/03/08£20,174£20,706£-532£4,365£12,427£11,7876.83870
31/03/07£20,088£19,736£352£4,081£14,225£13,6458.33580
31/03/06*£16,122£16,091£31n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£14,926£14,892£34n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£13,821£13,499£322n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 20.6%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 21.1%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 6%
Highest pay band: £140,000-£150,000
Liabilities/Assets: 24%
Liabilities/Income: 27%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 92%
Reserves/Spending: 10.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
Quick Ratio: 0.7
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 62 years
(125 years as a company)

www.stroke.org.uk

info@stroke.org.uk

02075660300

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UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Medical education, training & equipment
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Makes grants to individuals
  • Makes grants to organisations
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Isle Of Man, Jersey, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Department of Health£2,506,350
National Lottery Community Fund£845,674
Garfield Weston Foundation£250,000
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation£160,871
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Bowburn and District Stroke Group
£3,026 21/10/2023
We'd like to continue hiring a hall for our regular meetings, and have occasional external speakers. We'd like to buy two items of equipment: a projector for presentations and an indoor curling set.
The Shears Foundation - Stroke Association
£5,500 12/10/2023
Can we improve ambulance services to get more stroke patients the emergency care they need?
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Grant to Stroke Association
£51,500 05/01/2023
Stroke recovery service for Luton
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Medway A2 Stroke Group
£1,995 22/10/2022
Our group offers activities such as painting communication therapy, day trips, games and going out to the theatre. Battling loneliness and isolation improves quality of life.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Chandlers Ford Stroke Support Group
£2,239 22/10/2022
Our ongoing project provides a regular, safe, welcoming environment so that stroke survivors and their carers can socialise and enjoy fun and stimulating activities related to their needs/abilities.
The Shears Foundation - Stroke Association
£5,000 29/04/2022
Can we improve ambulance services to get more stroke patients the emergency care they need?
National Lottery Community Fund - Next Steps Wales
£100,000 19/01/2022
36
Over three years Stroke Association will use £100000 towards costs for providing staff overheads and deliver community-based support for stroke survivors and carers. They will use a network of partners volunteers and beneficiaries throughout Wales. ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - STEPS – Stroke Emotional and Psychological Support
£498,771 25/06/2021
36
The Stroke Association is using a £498771 grant to help stroke survivors and their carers develop emotional resilience and re-adjust to life after a stroke. Over three years in partnership with NI Chest Heart and Stroke (NICHS) the project will ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£150,000 04/06/2021
36
Connect and Here For You
National Lottery Community Fund - Stroke Association Scotland: rebuilding lives after stroke
£198,000 16/03/2021
35
This group will use the funding expand their support options for people recovering from stroke throughout Scotland. This will involve continuing their volunteer helpline which helps stroke survivors to connect with local groups facilitating zoom ....more
Masonic Trust - MCF Large Grant
£56,808 24/02/2021
A grant to support stroke survivors and carers by digitally connecting stroke group members and volunteers
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Luton Stroke Recovery Service
£53,771 22/12/2020
Grant to Stroke Association
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Stubbington Stroke Club
£2,916 24/10/2020
Provide weekly meetings to help rehabilitate and improve the quality of life of those having suffered from a stroke.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Warrington Life After Stroke Group (Alford Hall)
£3,161 24/10/2020
We would like to continue our peer group support, offering social and recreational activities as a special support group in Warrington.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Major Grants award - COVID19 response
£100,000 29/05/2020
Coronavirus Response Appeal
Department of Health - Covid Funding
£1,253,175 22/05/2020
Support for the Stroke Association
National Lottery Community Fund - Stroke Emotional and Psychological Support (First Steps)
£48,903 22/05/2020
12
The Stroke Association is using a £48903 grant to run their ‘Stroke Emotional and Psychological Support (First Steps)’ project to support those affected by stroke across Northern Ireland develop emotional resilience adjust to life after stroke ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to The Stroke Association
£32,750 08/05/2020
£32,750 towards costs as described in your application excluding hardship cash grants.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Stroke Association Urgent Coronavirus Appeal
£5,000 28/04/2020
3
Enabling the National Stroke Association to helps its 108 Suffolk members with information and support during the Covid 19 lock down period.
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Stroke Association
£2,880 22/04/2020
Remote befriending service for Stoke survivors throughout Wiltshire & Swindon.
Department of Health - The Stroke Association
£1,253,175 17/04/2020
The grant funding provided a period of support for charities providing vital services to ensure they could meet increased demand as a result of COVID-19, while continuing their day-to-day activities to help those in need, up to the end of October ....more
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Grant to Stroke Association
£55,600 30/01/2020
11
Luton Stroke Recovery Service
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Merseyside Life After Stroke Group
£6,031 15/11/2019
We want to run Katumba Brazilian drumming classes for stroke survivors, to improve their movement, communication and emotional wellbeing.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Stubbington Stroke Support Group
£3,820 15/11/2019
We want to enhance quality of life for stroke survivors in the local community.
Halifax Foundation for Northern Ireland - Emotional Support Service - Pilot
£7,000 11/06/2019
Emotional Support Service - Pilot
Essex Community Foundation - To continue the free provision of the support services currently being provided, in the next financial year
£4,390 23/05/2019
12
Towards the operational costs of a stroke support group in Maldon
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Stroke Association
£5,451 19/11/2018
We want to take our stroke survivors and their families out on a day trip and need to pay for a disabled coach.
National Lottery Community Fund - Stroke Association Singing for Stroke
£7,990 26/04/2018
11
The organisation, based in Belfast, is using a grant of £7,990 to create singing groups for survivors of strokes who might otherwise be isolated or have difficulty communication. The singing sessions help build people's confidence and provide a ....more
Sport England - RG Physical Activity Project
£213,620 09/04/2018
11
Funding under Sport England's Tackling Inactivity funding programme for a Revenue project titled RG Physical Activity Project. This project is a Sport participation and capacity building project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a disability.
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Maldon and Dengie Stroke Support and Carers' Group
£10,000 12/03/2018
To continue support services to people affected by Stroke, and their carers, to ensure well-being and reduce isolation
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Stroke Arts Cafe
£4,216 29/11/2017
We need art supplies for the cafe, which provides a focal point for stroke survivors from all over the city in which to meet.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Stroke Association
£53,000 26/07/2017
Life after Stroke: Past, Present and Future
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Cuckfield Stroke Support
£2,000 14/07/2017
12
Cuckfield Stroke Support are a communication group for Stroke Survivors. Funding was provided to buy some i-pads for their members with specialised apps to help and encourage communication.
National Lottery Community Fund - Stroke Community Steps / Camau Cymunedol Stroc
£498,040 24/05/2017
48
The project will develop support services for stroke survivors in communities across Wales, enabling them to integrate in existing services, participate in activities they enjoy within their community, benefit from stroke-specific peer support and ....more
Essex Community Foundation - N/A
£5,000 30/09/2016
11
To help provide support for people affected by a stroke
Nesta - AC00577
£831,444 02/09/2016
58
Accelerating Ideas programme grant to The Stroke Association Grant Ref AC00577
Nesta - AC00500
£14,392 09/10/2015
3
Accelerating Ideas programme grant to The Stroke Association Grant Ref AC00500
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Warminster and District Stroke Club
£4,000 03/08/2015
12
Warminster and District Stroke CLub provide opportunities for those members of the community who have suffered strokes to lead fulfilling and meaningful lives. The grant supported the cost of trips out in the local area for members and carers.
MACC - Community Stroke Association
£46,444 05/12/2014
The Stroke Association plans to deliver the Community Stroke Support project by developing three planned ‘Hubs’ in North, South and Central Manchester. Each hub will provide a monthly group session environment which will also act as a gateway to ....more
Nesta - AC20036
£236,065 29/07/2014
Centre for Social Action Innovation Fund programme grant to The Stroke Association Grant Ref AC20036
National Lottery Community Fund - A Curious Detour
£10,000 08/09/2011
12
The association will commission a theatre production, to explore the issues surrounding life after suffering from a stroke. The play will be based on a book called 'A Most Curious Detour' written by Stuart Hepburn a stroke survivor and will feature ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (13)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 12/13 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 40-77
  • ANDREW ROBERT ARCHIBALD Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Company Director
  • CERI JACKSON Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Director, Rnib Cymru
  • DAVID BUCKLE Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Doctor (Gp And Primary Care Medical Director)
  • DR MARTIN ANTHONY JAMES Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Hospital Consultant (Nhs)
  • DR NIAMH KENNEDY Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Lecturer
  • EDUARDO GARCEZ Appointed: 2018, Occupation: It Director
  • GEORGE SPENTZOS Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Financial Services
  • HANNAH CLAIRE CATCHPOOL Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Chartered Accountant
  • IAN MACPHERSON LEE Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Company Director
  • KATHERINE GILLESPIE Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Director
  • PROF AVRIL DRUMMOND Appointed: 2019, Occupation: University Professor And Occupational Therapist
  • PROFESSOR RUSTAM AL-SHAHI SALMAN Appointed: 2023
  • STEPHEN KING (Chair) Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Retired
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 14/01/1963, number: 211015
  • Registered at Companies House on 25/03/1899, number: 00061274
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
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
  • 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
20 returns made; AR06: 0 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from ILKESTON STROKE CLUB on 17/08/2021
  • Asset transfer in from ROTARY CLUB OF ITCHEN VALLEY on 14/03/2022
  • Asset transfer in from IDA MORTLOCK SADLER TRUST on 12/07/2022
Main office

Stroke Association
Stroke HOUSE
Stroke Association House
240 City Road
LONDON

Objectives

(A) WORKING FOR THE PREVENTION OF STROKE; (B) EDUCATING THE PUBLIC IN ALL MATTERS CONCERNING STROKE; (C) CARRYING OUT, PROMOTING OR SPONSORING RESEARCH INTO THE PREVENTION OR TREATMENT OF STROKE OR OTHER CONDITIONS WHERE THE EFFECTS ARE SIMILAR TO STROKE, THE REHABILITATION AND LONG-TERM CARE OF STROKE SURVIVORS AND PUBLISHING THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH; (D) RESPONDING TO THE NEEDS CAUSED BY THE EFFECTS OF STROKE, OR OTHER CONDITIONS WHERE THE EFFECTS ARE SIMILAR TO STROKE, BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND SUPPORT TO THOSE AFFECTED, THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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