Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 0
  • Fundraising costs high: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: 4 ?

INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker recently
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised
Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 30/03/18 31/03/19 31/03/20 31/03/21 31/03/22 31/03/23
Charitable activities £1,370,429 £1,617,020 £1,459,117 £1,528,992 £1,324,308
Donations & Legacies
Other Income
Investment Income £64 £628 £21 £63 £378
Total income £6,602,724 £6,432,928 £7,305,717 £7,246,125 £6,970,271 £6,266,284
Charitable activities spending £1,431,632 £1,830,219 £1,448,564 £1,230,776 £1,527,081
Fundraising costs 72% 69% 74% 69% 71% 74%
Other spending £204,000 £191,000 £204,000 £206,000 £189,000
Total spending £6,379,984 £6,442,441 £7,081,724 £6,413,762 £6,321,646 £6,327,467
Surplus/deficit £222,740 -£9,513 £223,993 £832,363 £648,625 -£61,183
Established: 34 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
GiG Classification
  • Medical education & research
Purposes
  • The advancement of health
  • The advancement of environmental protection or improvement
Where it operates
  • UK and overseas, main operating location: City of Edinburgh
Who it helps
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - PARTNERSHIP FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF RISKS FROM CHEMICALS
£1,935 01/04/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10049192

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (7)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 34-79
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 26/03/1990, number: SC000365
  • Registered at Companies House on 26/03/1990, number: SC123972
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

Research Avenue North, Riccarton, Edinburgh, EH14 4AP

Objectives

The Objects for which the Company is established are:- (1) (a) To promote and undertake research into medical and related problems (including statistical methods, health statistics and other ancillary matters) associated with industry generally in the United Kingdom, including research into (i) the diseases and disorders to which, persons employed in industry are especially liable. (ii) the effect of the industrial environment on the health of persons working in industry. and (iii) the physiological aspects of mining and mine rescue operations. and (b) to publish, or arrange for or support the publication of, the results of research promoted or undertaken by the Institute. (c) the advancement of education in occupational medicine and in any other related field or subject. (d) the protection and preservation of health. (e) to assist in the protection of the life and property of the Queen's subjects. (2) To carry out research and scientific investigations of health and safety, and the occupational and environmental problems affecting health and safety, and to advise thereon, and to carry out work in related fields and disciplines, and to provide a centre or centres at which such research, investigations and teaching can be carried out. (3) To promote, carry out or advance any charitable objects and in particular the objects following namely:- (a) the advancement of health and the preservation and relief or cure of sickness and injury of those at work or exposed to the environment and (b) the advancement of education in the problems affecting the health of those so engaged...

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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