Overall GiG Score: 14 ?
Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 4
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +4

TROPICAL HEALTH AND EDUCATION TRUST 

THET is an international development organisation working to improve the health of people in Africa and Asia. Focusing on strengthening healthcare services, we harness the skills and expertise of UK health professionals to improve the skills of health workers in some of the poorest countries of the world.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually 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

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
Established: 18 years

www.thet.org

Hrops@thet.org

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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
31/12/22£4,177£4,167£10£118£2,668£9562.8470
31/12/21£6,077£5,100£977£144£2,658£5621.3532
31/12/20£3,450£3,539£-89£42£1,681£2280.8682
31/12/19£3,609£3,456£152£60£1,770£2040.73825
31/12/18*£5,006£4,034£972£121£1,618£2630.82940
31/12/17£2,932£3,046£-114£104£646£2931.2340
31/12/16£7,355£7,329£26£86£759£3840.6340
31/12/15£9,973£9,964£9£127£733£3190.4420
31/12/14£10,642£10,950£-308£142£724£4790.5270
31/12/13£10,801£10,646£155£86£1,032£5250.6320
31/12/12£8,323£8,099£224£72£877£4440.7320
31/12/11£4,672£4,776£-103£57£651£3290.8210
31/12/10£3,137£2,765£372£77£756£2681.2150
31/12/09£1,234£1,269£-35£82£391£1721.6130
31/12/08£1,197£1,107£90£78£484£1621.8120
31/12/07£934£930£4£41£394£1321.7130
31/12/06£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 2.9%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 2.8%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 8%
Highest pay band: £110,000-£120,000
Liabilities/Assets: 13%
Liabilities/Income: 9%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 36%
Reserves/Spending: 2.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 8 months
Quick Ratio: 7.3
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who works here?
  • 47 employees
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Bangladesh, Burma, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nepal, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Syria, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia,

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 of Health - The Tropical Health and Education Trust
£516,604 01/08/2021
Increase the quality and quantity of nurse training places in countries leading to an increase of better trained nurses;Deliver training that leads to nurse qualifications to refugees/displaced ....more
Department of Health - Tropical Health and Education Trust
£1,321,523 01/08/2021
A grant to deliver a component of the Building the Future International Workforce programme. Supporting four UK-Somaliland and UK-Ugandan health partnerships to deliver health systems strengthening ....more
Department of Health - Tropical Health And Education Trust
£361,483 01/04/2020
will seek to develop partnerships between NHS hospitals and clinics/hospitals in four Commonwealth countries: Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
Comic Relief - Building national training capacity to implement the CBHPSP (2015-2020) in Tanzania
£1,480,197 25/11/2015
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The highest rates of maternal deaths in Tanzania occur in Lake Zone, a remote area bordering Rwanda and Burundi, partly because only half of women giving birth there do so in health facilities. ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 38-68
  • GERARD JOHN BYRNE Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Dean & Director Of Education And Quality (North)
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 27/02/2006, number: 1113101
  • Registered at Companies House on 14/02/2006, number: 05708871
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
17 returns made; AR18: 1 days late,
Main office

86-90 Paul Street
3rd floor
LONDON
England
EC2A 4NE

Objectives

(1) TO RELIEVE POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS IN THE LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD AND TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF HEALTH IN THOSE COUNTRIES, PARTICULARLY (BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY) BY THE PROVISION OF APPROPRIATE MEDICAL AND EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT;(2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THOSE PEOPLE WHOSE WORK IS CONCERNED WITH THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY IN THE LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE. OVERSEAS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase

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