Overall GiG Score: 11 ?
Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 7
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Excess reserves: -3
  • Large legacies income: +1
  • Volatile income
  • spending growth: -1
  • Fundraising costs high: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7

THE ELIZABETH FOUNDATION 

Mission:

To help deaf children learn to listen and talk, using a multi-sensory oral/aural approach that engages all the senses to learn in fun and exciting ways.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • This charity has received considerable income from legacies in recent years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Financial issues to consider:

  • This charity has substantial assets and unrestricted reserves of £2,368,499 available, equivalent to 37 months of spending and so may not be able to utilise additional funding
  • Income has been volatile recently but spending has been maintained
  • Fundraising costs are high relative to funds raised
Comment by the Charity:
    Income in year ended 31st March 2022 is expected to be significantly lower due to the charity coming to the end of several multi year grants and reduced ability to deliver fund-raising events. Income in the previous 2-years was boosted by legacies and covid emergency grants for specific projects. Deficit expectation for the year is circa £180,000 which will reduce reserves
Established: 38 years

www.elizabeth-foundation.org

info@elizabeth-foundation.org

02392372735

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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£752£770£-18£145£3,516£2,36836.92118
31/03/22£1,047£740£308£137£3,558£2,36438.42015
31/03/21£1,003£752£250£141£3,216£1,98031.62011
31/03/20£721£758£-37£159£2,948£1,67426.52146
31/03/19£830£755£75£177£2,991£1,64326.12246
31/03/18£957£663£295£143£2,916£1,55328.1200
31/03/17£705£663£42£133£2,621£1,21322130
31/03/16£499£685£-186£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£778£706£71£187£2,765£2,12036130
31/03/14£858£725£133£185£2,694£2,19936.4120
31/03/13£885£743£142£169£2,562£2,18135.2130
31/03/12£958£656£302£158£2,420£2,03337.2130
31/03/11£776£588£188£139£2,118£1,93639.5120
31/03/10£692£612£80£114£1,930£1,74434.2120
31/03/09£754£551£203£139£1,850£1,65436160
31/03/08£876£593£283£120£1,646£1,32826.9150
31/03/07£566£597£-31£101£1,369£1,16523.4230
31/03/06£610£642£-32£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£512£625£-113£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£616£506£111£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 21.8%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 18.8%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 10%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 3%
Liabilities/Income: 13%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 67%
Reserves/Spending: 36.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: 4.1
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
The Elizabeth Foundation provides a range of early intervention and support services for very young deaf children and babies, and their families. These include emotional support and advice for families at the time of diagnosis and the period after diagnosis, nursery group education programmes (Ofsted registered), one-to-one education and support, and a Home Learning Programme.
Who works here?
  • 21 employees
  • 18 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

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
Comic Relief£177,444
Garfield Weston Foundation£50,000
DCMS£33,630
Henry Smith Charity£15,000
National Lottery Community Fund£9,482
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£570 25/04/2022
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£550 05/03/2021
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000 05/08/2020
"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
Comic Relief - Elizabeth Foundation Recovery Funding
£25,000 23/06/2020
6
COVID19 Recovery funding
BBC Children in Need - Grant to The Elizabeth Foundation
£3,160 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This grant will fund specialist IT equipment to support hearing impaired children, isolated at home due to Covid-19. Children will improve their communication skills.
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£3,160 21/05/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£20,470 20/05/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£50,000 20/03/2020
Communicate for Change
Comic Relief - Communicate for Change
£152,444 06/11/2019
36
The first five years of life are the most important period in which a child’s brain develops. For deaf children, without an early diagnosis and expert support, this development is detrimentally ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Elizabeth Foundation
£15,000 12/06/2019
24
towards two years' running costs of a project delivering education and welfare sessions to pre-school children who are deaf or hearing impaired in Hampshire
National Lottery Community Fund - Parents as Partners
£9,482 23/05/2019
12
The funding will be used to deliver monthly support sessions to parents of children with hearing loss. The project aims to enable parents to discuss issues they face, gain a greater understanding of ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to The Elizabeth Foundation
£131,594 27/06/2018
36
The project will provide speech and language support to Deaf children and young people. The activities will help to improve language, speech and social skills and encourage interaction between the ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Elizabeth Foundation
£4,253 04/08/2017
We need to increase accessibility to our demonstration home and sensory room for children with hearing loss, complex needs or wheelchairs.
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to The Elizabeth Foundation
£60,000 10/03/2017
Main Grant unrestricted core costs
National Lottery Community Fund - Lets hear the music!
£6,446 11/01/2017
12
This project will deliver educational music therapy sessions for the benefit of deaf and hearing impaired children. This will support them to develop and improve their range of communication skills, ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Elizabeth Foundation
£10,000 13/09/2016
purchase and installation of a lift for a charity which works with disabled children in Hampshire
National Lottery Community Fund - Lets Learn Together
£10,000 29/04/2015
12
The organisation will use the funding to run a summer programme for children with permanent hearing loss, their parents and siblings. This will include a family learning programme of lecturers, ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees:
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 04/04/1986, number: 293835
  • Registered at Companies House on 18/11/1985, number: 01960980
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • 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
  • 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; all on time
Main office

THE ELIZABETH FOUNDATION
SOUTHWICK HILL ROAD
COSHAM
PORTSMOUTH
PO6 3LL

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING CHILDREN AND ADULTS BY THE PROVISION OF HELP AND ASSISTANCE TO THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES AND BY THE PROMOTION OF THE EARLY DETECTION OF DEAFNESS AND HEARING LOSS IN BABIES AND YOUNG CHILDREN, AND THE PROMOTION OF HIGH QUALITY AUDIOLOGICAL CARE AND SUPPORT FOR ALL.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase

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