Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 9
  • No PartB
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

LIVERPOOL CANCER CARE SELF HELP GROUP

To provide emotional support to people who have been affected by cancer. We offer a variety of services including cancer specific groups, complimentary therapies, counselling, one to one work and welfare benefits advice. Tai Chi and the 'Feel Good Factor' a programme consisting of Art and Music Therapy and Creative Writing, have been introduced recently.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity

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 £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£163£154£8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£113£136£-23n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21*£156£133£23n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£178£168£10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£149£139£10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18*£140£156£-16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17*£163£136£27n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16*£125£115£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£92£97£-5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£109£98£11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£118£132£-14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£103£118£-15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£85£118£-33n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09£97£120£-23n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£76£73£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07£76£60£16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06£84£59£25n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£62£55£7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£77£56£20n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 39 years

www.liverpoolsunflowers.com

board@liverpoolsunflowers.com

01517268934

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool City, Sefton, St Helens, Wirral,
Who it helps
  • 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
National Lottery Community Fund£23,970
Sport England£10,000
John Moores Foundation£10,000
The Foyle Foundation£6,000
Co-Operative Group£3,085
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund£3,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£6,000 30/04/2024
towards core costs over the next 12 months
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Liverpool Cancer Care Self Help Group
£3,000 13/11/2023
12
Small Grant Unrestricted Core Costs
Sport England - Exercise Rehabilitation to increase health
£5,000 21/07/2023
This project will provide funding to help expand exercise sessions from 6 weekly sessions to 18 weekly sessions per week to support people living with a long-term condition or cancer diagnosis, living in isolation, or needing to lose weight for an ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Counselling for Cancer Support
£10,000 02/06/2023
The funding will be used to run a counselling service for vulnerable people living with cancer or a long-term condition. The project aims to meet the current demand and reduce waiting times to ensure the community is supported with mental health ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Liverpool Sunflowers Cancer Care Self Help Group
£1,472 22/10/2022
We would like to provide the most robust local counselling service for people living with cancer or long-term conditions.
National Lottery Community Fund - Counselling Service
£10,000 07/01/2022
The funding will be used to employ a counselling manager whose duties will include assessing client needs and referring to a suitable counsellor along with the recruitment of counselling staff.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Liverpool Sunflowers
£1,614 23/10/2021
We will enable the community to be healthier to release the strain on the NHS, to find friendship groups, decrease social isolation and anxiety, whilst reducing the pressure of a long-term condition.
John Moores Foundation - Grant to Liverpool Cancer Care Self Help Group - Sunflowers
£10,000 23/09/2021
Towards contribution towards Counselling Manager salary
National Lottery Community Fund - Making Reopening the cancer centre COVID safe
£3,970 22/10/2020
6
The organisation will make changes to increase safety to enable them to deliver lymphatic drainage and pain reducing complementary therapies and group therapies for people at their cancer centre with the aim of reducing isolation and improving ....more
Sport England - COVID-19 CEF
£5,000 01/06/2020
4
Funding under Sport England's COVID-19 Community Emergency Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID-19 CEF. This project lists its main activity as Sport participation and capacity building
National Lottery Community Fund - Sunflowers - Counselling Services
£9,600 27/03/2019
12
The organisation will deliver counselling for people with and affected by cancer, with the aim of improving access to support.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Liverpool Cancer Care Self Help Group
£2,606 19/11/2018
We want to be able to increase the number and variety of exercise classes we offer to cancer patients and survivors.
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£5,000 22/10/2018
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Liverpool Cancer Care Self Help Group
£3,724 04/08/2017
Cancer is a life-changing disease. Help those affected through and beyond cancer with funds for counselling and support.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • DANIEL THOMAS CONROY Appointed: 2019
  • KAREN WILLIAMSON Appointed: 2017
  • MARTIN MAGINN Appointed: 2021
  • MIKE CARTER Appointed: 2017
  • SARAH-LOUISE MCCARTNEY Appointed: 2019
  • STUART LINDSAY SPEEDEN Appointed: 2017
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 04/06/1985, number: 516462
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
  • 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; AR21: 47 days late, AR18: 1 days late, AR17: 2 days late, AR16: 1 days late,
Main office

21 Aigburth Road
LIVERPOOL
L17 4JR

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF ANY PERSON SUFFERING FROM CANCER IN ANY FORM BY A. OFFERING A SUPPORT SERVICE TO CANCER SUFFERERS AND THEIR DEPENDANTS, RELATIVES OR FRIENDS. B. PROMOTING FACILITIES FOR THE EXCHANGE OF EXPERIENCES, VIEWS AND INFORMATION AMONG CANCER SUFFERERS, THEIR FAMILIES AND FRIENDS, AND OTHER INTERESTED PERSONS REGARDLESS OF RACE, CREED, GENDER, DISABILITY OR AGE

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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