Finance Score: 3

Governance Score: 8

Support Score: 8

Low unrestricted reserves: -2
Strong growth: +2
Fundraising costs low: +3

12+ Trustees: -1
Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +8

Overall GiG Score: 19

NATIONAL VOICES

National Voices is the coalition of charities that stands for people being in control of their health and care. We want person-centred care: people having as much control and influence as possible over decisions that affect their own health and care, as patients, carers and members of communities. We want people to be partners in the design of services and in research, innovation and improvement.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
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 age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There are 13 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12

Financial issues to consider:

Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end

Established: 28 years

www.nationalvoices.org.uk

info@nationalvoices.org.uk

02031760738

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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		£756	£815	£-59	£54	£237	£143	2.1	13	2
31/03/22		£818	£791	£27	£33	£296	£222	3.4	11	0
31/03/21		£775	£686	£89	£30	£269	£205	3.6	9	9
31/03/20		£411	£404	£7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/03/19		£332	£417	£-85	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/18		£385	£576	£-191	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£690	£665	£24	£0	£448	£289	5.2	11	0
31/03/16		£792	£598	£194	£0	£424	£233	4.7	9	0
31/03/15		£577	£501	£76	£17	£229	£140	3.4	7	0
31/03/14		£506	£492	£15	£19	£154	£154	3.7	6	0
31/03/13?		£558	£590	£-31	£36	£139	£119	2.4	6	0
31/12/11		£371	£430	£-60	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/10		£506	£426	£80	£57	£230	£81	2.3	7	0
31/12/09		£681	£603	£78	£121	£150	£76	1.5	7	0
31/12/08		£788	£756	£32	£110	£73	£73	1.2	7	0
31/12/07		£316	£344	£-28	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/06		£373	£395	£-23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/05		£371	£411	£-40	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/04	*	£409	£454	£-45	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 7.2%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 6.6%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 10%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 43%
Liabilities/Income: 24%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 61%
Reserves/Spending: 2.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 1.9

Asset Split ?

What it does

Disability
Education/Training
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

Who works here?

13 employees
2 volunteers

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
Other Defined Groups
People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Other charitable activities
Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Throughout England,

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	£313,000
National Lottery Community Fund	£60,000
Guy's and St Thomas' Charity	£20,000
Nesta	£15,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Department of Health - National Voices
£49,500	31/01/2023	Through the HW Alliance, policy teams can work collaboratively with the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations, accessing the sectors expertise and connecting policy leads ....more Through the HW Alliance, policy teams can work collaboratively with the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations, accessing the sectors expertise and connecting policy leads with hard-to-reach communities. The Alliance comprises of 19 VCSE organisations and the membership is currently confirmed for 2021-24. These organisations bring the expertise of the VCSE sector, and the voices of the people they represent, into national policy development and delivery. The HW Alliance enables system partners (and their policy teams) to strengthen and build on the relationships with the VCSE sector, providing: A route for system partners to reach a wide range of VCSE organisations A collective voice for the VCSE sector Opportunities co-design and co-produce solutions on cross-cutting issues Access to the voices of communities that experience the greatest health inequalities. Activities of HW Alliance members are designed to align with the national strategic priorities of the system partners, with a continued focus on promoting equality and reducing health inequalities. "
Department of Health - National Voices
£50,000	31/01/2023	Through the HW Alliance, policy teams can work collaboratively with the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations, accessing the sectors expertise and connecting policy leads ....more Through the HW Alliance, policy teams can work collaboratively with the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations, accessing the sectors expertise and connecting policy leads with hard-to-reach communities. The Alliance comprises of 19 VCSE organisations and the membership is currently confirmed for 2021-24. These organisations bring the expertise of the VCSE sector, and the voices of the people they represent, into national policy development and delivery. The HW Alliance enables system partners (and their policy teams) to strengthen and build on the relationships with the VCSE sector, providing: A route for system partners to reach a wide range of VCSE organisations A collective voice for the VCSE sector Opportunities co-design and co-produce solutions on cross-cutting issues Access to the voices of communities that experience the greatest health inequalities. Activities of HW Alliance members are designed to align with the national strategic priorities of the system partners, with a continued focus on promoting equality and reducing health inequalities. "
Department of Health - Investigating the impact of Long Covid on Health inequality groups
£133,500	25/03/2021	The grant fund to the FNF will facilitate the development of an end-to-end grant funding process for the 18 diaspora groups (i.e advertising, application, shortlisting, interviews, awarding funds and ....more The grant fund to the FNF will facilitate the development of an end-to-end grant funding process for the 18 diaspora groups (i.e advertising, application, shortlisting, interviews, awarding funds and benchmarking progress, as well as regular progress updates to NHSEI)Providing results and evaluation of the grant programme to NHSEI Diaspora groups will benefit from a grant funding process that will enable them to receive funding to strengthen their pastoral support for international nurses arriving in the UK subject to criteria set by NHSEI
National Lottery Community Fund - Making what matters to people matter in health and care
£60,000	05/10/2020 5	The funding will provide the organisation with the ability to continue to provide a critical connection to senior decision makers across the health and care system and Government. This link is ....more The funding will provide the organisation with the ability to continue to provide a critical connection to senior decision makers across the health and care system and Government. This link is critical to feeding valuable information about things such as kidney patients being unable to access dialysis because hospital transport stopped young people losing access to school and counselling and access to food and medicine.
Nesta - AC01166
£15,000	15/09/2020	Accelerating Ideas programme grant to National Voices Grant Ref AC01166
Department of Health - National Voices
£80,000	28/04/2020	See HWA summary:Working with the VCSE sector - encourange two way flow of information and inteliigence betweeen the Sector and the System.
Guy's and St Thomas' Charity - Integrating mental and physical health
£20,000	14/02/2020	Integrating mental and physical health - insights from experience
Department of Health - Health and Wellbeing Alliance-National Voices
£60,000	01/04/2019	The Health & Wellbeing Alliance consists of 21 organisations from the Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector. These organisations engage in intensive co-production with system ....more The Health & Wellbeing Alliance consists of 21 organisations from the Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector. These organisations engage in intensive co-production with system partners on emerging policy priorities, as well as being an interface between the Department and the VCSE sector.
Department of Health - Health and Wellbeing Alliance-National Voices
£60,000	01/04/2018	The Health & Wellbeing Alliance consists of 21 organisations from the Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector. These organisations engage in intensive co-production with system ....more The Health & Wellbeing Alliance consists of 21 organisations from the Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector. These organisations engage in intensive co-production with system partners on emerging policy priorities, as well as being an interface between the Department and the VCSE sector.
Department of Health - HWA T2 National Voices
£30,000	01/04/2017	Behavioural Sciences Collaboration Hub
Department of Health - National Voices
£60,000	01/04/2017	Health and Wellbeing Alliance
Nesta - AC00512
£70,500	17/12/2015 8	Realising the Value programme grant to National Voices Grant Ref AC00512

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (13)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 11/13 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 33-59

CLARE WOODFORD Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Senior Policy Adviser

DR MEERA SHAH Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Dental/Healthcare Educator And Patient Expert

EAMONN DUNNE Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Partnerships & Projects Development Manager

ESTHER FREEMAN Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Head Of Locality Products

EZRA BEN-YISRAEL Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Wellbeing And Leadership Development Manager

HARRY EVANS Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Nhs Manager

HELEN BALL Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Finance Director

HELEN BUCKINGHAM (Chair) Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Director Of Strategy And Operations, Other trusteeship: ROYAL VOLUNTARY SERVICE,

JESSICA CUNNETT Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Chief Executive

KALU OBUKA Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Nhs Manager

NOHA AL AFIFI Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Director Of Marketing & Communications

SAMANTHA HOLMES Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Charity Senior Manager

SHERONE PHILLIPS Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Senior Manager

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 21/08/1996, number: 1057711
Registered at Companies House on 09/08/1996, number: 03236543

Gift Aid

NOT 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
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

19 returns made; AR04: 15 days late,

Main office

The Foundry
17 Oval Way
Vauxhall
London
SE11 5RR

Objectives

3.1 TO ADVANCE HEALTH AND TO RELIEVE THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF ILL-HEALTH ORDISABILITY, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION TO RELIEVE PEOPLE AFFECTED BY LONG-TERMHEALTH CONDITIONS AND DISABILITIES, IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT I IMITATION, BYFOSTERING AND ENCOURAGING CO-OPERATION BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS, VOLUNTARYORGANISATIONS AND/OR PUBLIC BODIES CONNECTED WITH HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE IN ACOMMON EFFORT TO IMPROVE THE CARE AND TREATMENT OF SERVICE USERS AND TOPROMOTE SERVICES WHICH TAKE ACCOUNT OF THE NEEDS OF SERVICE USERS ANDCARERS; AND3.2 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SUBJECTS OF HEALTH AND SOCIALCARE, INCLUDING THE CAUSES, EFFECTS AND TREATMENTS OF ALL LONG-TERM HEALTHCONDITIONS AND DISABILITIES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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