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Finance Score: 6
Governance Score: 8
Support Score: 9
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 23 ?

DESIGNABILITY CHARITY LIMITED

Designability Charity Limited is a design and development charity working in the fields of medicine, health care and assistive technology for disabled people
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • 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?
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

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£2,542£2,193£349£110£2,382£1,7079.3312
31/03/22£2,190£2,079£112£81£2,061£1,4228.2282
31/03/21£1,932£1,696£236£31£1,920£1,53810.9242
31/03/20£1,834£1,525£309£112£1,592£1,29710.2233
31/03/19£1,451£1,419£32£110£1,254£9418205
31/03/18£2,295£2,125£170£127£1,193£9925.6210
31/03/17£1,953£2,003£-50£96£1,014£9175.5210
31/03/16£1,034£1,092£-58£76£1,006£8939.8220
31/03/15£843£759£84£49£1,137£99815.8150
31/03/14£781£770£11£46£1,015£79312.4120
31/03/13£836£687£148£53£992£81314.2120
31/03/12£776£702£74£39£809£59110.1120
31/03/11£802£808£-6£28£740£6399.5160
31/03/10£582£732£-150£19£742£73012160
31/03/09£738£818£-80£19£834£82012160
31/03/08£662£739£-77£17£992£99216.1140
31/03/07£655£722£-68£16£1,091£1,09118.1160
31/03/06£506£521£-15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£539£513£26n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£523£476£48n/an/an/an/an/an/a
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Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 4.4%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 5%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 9%
Highest pay band: £90,000-£100,000
Liabilities/Assets: 9%
Liabilities/Income: 9%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 72%
Reserves/Spending: 9.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 9 months
Quick Ratio: 6.3
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 56 years

www.designability.org.uk

info@designability.org.uk

01225824103

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Scientific research and testing services
How it operates
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • People With Disabilities

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
Wolfson Foundation£75,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£60,000
Masonic Trust£54,500
Sam and Bella Sebba Charitable Foundation£7,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£40,000 07/07/2023
24
Designability Core Funding Proposal
Masonic Trust - MCF Large Grant
£54,000 16/03/2023
Whizzybugs - enabling young disabled children to experience independent mobility and play.
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£500 27/05/2022
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Designability
£75,000 09/12/2021
Refurbishment of workspace used to design mobility and accessibility aids
Sam and Bella Sebba Charitable Foundation - Grant to Designability
£7,500 05/08/2020
Towards AT consultant
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 17/07/2020
Revenue funding to enable us to continue to provide effective and compelling solutions to help those in need
Road Safety Trust - Grant to Designability
£1,500 08/10/2019
FLOURISH - Impact Funding
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 05/12/2018
Wizzybug Loan Scheme
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£5,000 03/05/2017
Wizzybug Charitable Loan Scheme
Road Safety Trust - Grant to Designability
£62,908 11/01/2017
30
FLOURISH - design requirements to enable use of connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) by older people with a disability
Masonic Trust - Wizzybugs Powered Wheelchairs
£38,250 20/07/2016
Building 9 additional 'Wizzybug' powered wheelchairs for disabled children under 5.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (13)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 35-66
  • ANDREW MONK Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Executive Director Of Development & Alumni Relatio
  • CATHERINE BAILEY Appointed: 2022, Occupation: University Manager
  • DR ANNA CHATZIMICHALI Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Senior Lecturer
  • DR BENJAMIN WILLIAM METCALFE Appointed: 2020, Occupation: University Lecturer
  • ELISABETH SARAH SKEET Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Services Director
  • EMMA KATE LEGG Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Occupational Therapist
  • JEREMY MARWOOD (Chair) Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Managing Director
  • JULIAN MASSIE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Operations Director
  • KATHRYN LOUISE MCKEE Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Finance Director
  • MICHAEL JOSEPH WARD Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Solicitor
  • NICOLA JANE WILSON Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Chartered Accountant
  • PAUL JOHN FAIRHURST Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Senior Executive
  • SAMUEL JAMES WHATLEY Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Business Advisor
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 11/07/1968, number: 256335
  • Registered at Companies House on 18/06/1968, number: 00933932
Gift Aid
  • 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
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; all on time
Main office

D1
Wolfson Centre
Royal United Hospital
BATH

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE INSTITUTE ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND OF ENGINEERING RESEARCH FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES, THE DISSEMINATION OF THE KNOWLEDGE THEREBY ACQUIRED AND THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED (BY REASON OF THEIR DISABILITY, AGE OR INFIRMITY) BY THE PROVISION OF DEVICES AND EQUIPMENT TO ASSIST IN THEIR MEDICAL TREATMENT OR IMPROVE THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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