Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: 7

Support Score: 7

Poor Liquidity: -1
Good Reserves: +1Large legacies income: +1
Multiple Deficits: -2
Fundraising costs high: -4

No volunteer policy: -2
Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +7

Overall GiG Score: 9

BLOODWISE

We stop people dying from blood cancer; we make patients' lives better and we stop people from getting blood cancer in the first place. We achieve this by:* revealing how blood cancer works* driving smarter, faster diagnosis* inspiring new treatments and better care* being a voice of influence & championing patients' needs* building communities & sharing understanding

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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:

Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy

Financial issues to consider:

Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end but unrestricted reserves are available
On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised

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	£18,715	£14,445	£4,270	£6,218	£17,336	£14,811	12.3	112	654
31/03/22	£13,273	£13,532	£-259	£5,007	£12,983	£12,619	11.2	112	600
31/03/21	£12,496	£9,307	£3,189	£3,864	£13,219	£12,930	16.7	106	530
31/03/20	£14,461	£10,731	£3,730	£5,970	£10,813	£10,259	11.5	105	500
31/03/19	£15,331	£16,920	£-1,589	£5,248	£7,404	£7,280	5.2	103	580
31/03/18	£17,062	£17,529	£-467	£5,506	£7,377	£7,068	4.8	99	0
31/03/17	£15,971	£20,142	£-4,171	£5,812	£7,802	£7,616	4.5	98	0
31/03/16	£16,850	£20,796	£-3,946	£6,342	£7,379	£7,359	4.2	112	0
31/03/15	£20,588	£31,561	£-10,973	£6,285	£3,844	£3,844	1.5	111	0
31/03/14	£21,656	£26,565	£-4,909	£5,888	£11,348	£11,348	5.1	94	0
31/03/13	£20,353	£32,255	£-11,902	£5,571	£15,460	£15,460	5.8	83	0
31/03/12	£19,242	£20,994	£-1,752	£5,387	£20,130	£19,505	11.1	78	0
31/03/11	£19,949	£29,512	£-9,563	£4,620	£20,290	£19,254	7.8	74	0
31/03/10	£19,135	£21,956	£-2,821	£4,253	£23,771	£22,849	12.5	66	0
31/03/09	£22,265	£23,371	£-1,106	£3,872	£9,112	£9,112	4.7	62	0
31/03/08	£19,325	£27,619	£-8,294	£3,483	£24,978	£24,978	10.9	52	0
31/03/07	£19,244	£23,856	£-4,612	£3,177	£35,129	£35,129	17.7	52	0
31/03/06	£17,953	£21,859	£-3,906	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	£16,848	£18,394	£-1,546	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	£16,638	£16,039	£599	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 37%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 43.5%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 11%
Highest pay band: £120,000-£130,000
Liabilities/Assets: 45%
Liabilities/Income: 77%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 85%
Reserves/Spending: 12.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: -2 months
Quick Ratio: 0.4

Asset Split ?

Established: 61 years

www.bloodcancer.org.uk

hello@bloodcancer.org.uk

02075042200

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

GiG Classification

General outpatient health-care services

How it operates

Makes Grants to Organisations
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

112 employees
654 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

Department of Health	£683,114
Garfield Weston Foundation	£134,000
DCMS	£86,025
David & Elaine Potter Foundation	£5,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Blood Cancer UK
£250	31/03/2023	As directed by the donor towards the work of Blood Cancer UK to fund world-class research, ensure everyone affected has access to the right support at the right time, and campaign for better ....more As directed by the donor towards the work of Blood Cancer UK to fund world-class research, ensure everyone affected has access to the right support at the right time, and campaign for better treatments.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Bloodwise
£250	23/03/2022	As directed by the donor to work to combat blood cancers by funding research and supporting those affected.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£34,000	05/11/2021	Improving the Blood Cancer Experience
CareTech foundation - Match Funding Grant
£250	08/04/2021	Match funding Grant awarded to registered charity in the UK to support the applicant's fundraising efforts
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£86,025	02/09/2020	"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."
Garfield Weston Foundation - Major Grants award - COVID19 response
£100,000	03/07/2020	The Blood Cancer UK Childhood Leukaemia CellBank
Department of Health - Covid Funding
£341,557	22/05/2020	Cancer Patient Support
Department of Health - Blood Cancer UK
£341,557	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 ....more 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 2021. Each organisation was either:Providing key services specific to supporting the Covid-19 response, to reduce burden on the NHS or other public services; orProviding critical frontline services to vulnerable groups affected by Covid-19 and associated measures (ie. social-distancing) (must outline the characteristics that make those groups vulnerable).
David & Elaine Potter Foundation - Learning and training support
£5,000	25/03/2020 12	Support to re-develop an existing e-learning platform providing haemotology nurses with COVID-19 specific training and support.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (12)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 26-74

ALASTAIR STIRLING BOYLE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Non-Executive Director

AMIR SHAH SETHU Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Chartered Accountant

CLAUDE MANUEL LITTNER Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Entrepreneur, Corporate Turnarounds

FRASER WILSON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Partner Of Pwc Llp

JASMINE IONA HANDFORD Appointed: 2021, Occupation: None

JULIET HELEN HILLIER Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Charity Chief Executive

LOUISE MORGAN LAI Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Director

MATTHEW DOMINIC WILSON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Consultant

PROFESSOR CHRISTINE JOYCE HARRISON Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Research Scientist

PROFESSOR CLAIRE NICOLA HARRISON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Hospital Consultant

STEVEN PRESCOTT-JONES Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Chief Engineer

TIM GILLBANKS Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Chartered Accountant

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 27/11/1962, number: 216032
Registered at Companies House on 17/10/1962, number: 00738089

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Event History

22/02/2017 - Asset transfer in from THE PATRICIA MARY GAMMON TRUST
21/08/2017 - Asset transfer in from DERBYSHIRE LEUKAEMIA RESEARCH FUND
15/05/2019 - Asset transfer in from THE DOMINIC KING FUND

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
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Filing Record

20 returns made; all on time

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from THE DOMINIC KING FUND on 15/05/2019

Main office

Blood Cancer Uk
Suite 31 Bonnington Bond
2 Anderson Place
EDINBURGH
EH6 5NP

Objectives

THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH AND THE SAVING OF LIVES BY: (A) PROMOTING AND ASSISTING RESEARCH INTO ALL ASPECTS OF BLOOD CANCERS INCLUDING THE CAUSES, DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT AND CURE OF ALL BLOOD CANCERS; AND (B) ADVANCING THE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF BLOOD CANCERS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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