Finance Score: -8
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 4
  • Excess liquidity: -1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • Fundraising costs high: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 2 ?

PENNY BROHN CANCER CARE 

Penny Brohn help people and their families live well with the impact of cancer. They can explore which lifestyle choices are right for them by finding out about eating well, learning simple techniques to help manage stress and discover which physical activities are beneficial
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appeared to be considerably in excess of CC guidelines at the latest year end
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
  • Fundraising costs are high relative to funds raised
Established: 42 years

www.pennybrohn.org.uk

info@pennybrohn.org.uk

01275370100

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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
30/11/22£2,274£2,838£-564£433£5,818£5,443234943
30/11/21*£2,285£2,238£47£393£6,383£6,17133.14835
30/11/20£2,932£2,802£130£499£6,336£6,15026.3113100
30/11/19£2,687£3,163£-476£791£6,207£5,91922.5142242
30/11/18£3,062£3,044£19£734£5,259£5,16820.471180
30/11/17£3,143£2,920£223£677£5,241£5,11921680
30/11/16?£4,045£3,995£50£923£5,019£4,90214.7620
31/05/15£2,460£2,866£-406£646£4,968£4,91120.6600
31/05/14£2,275£2,675£-400£609£5,374£5,30923.8570
31/05/13£2,169£2,660£-491£674£5,057£4,82521.8530
31/05/12£2,497£2,365£132£568£5,547£5,15226.1460
31/05/11£2,045£2,167£-122£533£5,415£5,39729.9450
31/05/10£2,980£2,086£894£487£5,536£5,51931.7420
31/05/09£1,819£2,443£-624£694£4,641£4,61922.7500
31/05/08£3,278£3,258£20£1,136£6,319£6,24823600
31/05/07£3,864£3,165£699£1,040£8,512£8,35631.7570
31/05/06£4,959£2,351£2,608£0£0£0n/a00
31/05/05*£2,660£2,051£609£0£0£0n/a00
31/05/04£2,855£2,161£694£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 22.7%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 15.3%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 9%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 18%
Liabilities/Income: 56%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 94%
Reserves/Spending: 23 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 1
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • 49 employees
  • 43 volunteers

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
Quartet Community Foundation£20,500
Garfield Weston Foundation£20,000
The Clothworkers Foundation£7,000
Co-Operative Group£4,435
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Penny Brohn Cancer Care
£500 03/01/2023
As requested by the donor to support the organisation's core activities.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Penny Brohn UK
£1,644 23/10/2021
We want to fund the refurbishment of the basement in our new community hub in Queen's Road, so we can create more space to provide complementary therapies for people affected by cancer in Bristol.
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Penny Brohn Cancer Care - 23/09/21
£1,750 12/10/2021
Core Funding
Quartet Community Foundation - Remote support services for cancer patients in North Somerset isolated by COVID-19
£20,000 02/11/2020
Digital, online provision of care and support services for clinically vulnerable cancer patients and their carers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 22/11/2019
The Loneliness Package of Care
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Penny Brohn UK
£2,791 15/11/2019
We want to maintain our Treatment Support Clinics for anyone preparing for, undergoing or recovering from chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Penny Brohn UK
£7,000 03/09/2019
refurbishment of therapuetic gardens for a charity which works with older people living with cancer in Bristol
Nesta - AC00515
£22,000 27/01/2016
8
Realising the Value programme grant to Penny Brohn Cancer Care Grant Ref AC00515
National Lottery Community Fund - The Wellness Package
£491,133 17/06/2015
36
The project will work in Hull, Portsmouth, Birmingham, Bristol and London to provide support to help people better manage the impact cancer has on their lives through their Living Well courses, ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Living Well Course Workbook
£10,000 06/03/2014
12
This is a project by a charity in Bristol. The group will use the funding to design and print an updated resource book, with healthy eating guidelines, recipes, exercises and signposting for people ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 41-66
  • JAYNE TUCKER Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Chartered Accountant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 30/06/1982, number: 284881
  • Registered at Companies House on 17/05/1982, number: 01635916
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR21: 3 days late, AR05: 41 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from ASSOCIATION FOR NEW APPROACHES TO CANCER on 09/09/2021
  • Asset transfer in from THE CANON C F PILKINGTON 2000 CHARITABLE TRUST on 09/02/2023
  • Asset transfer in from NICOLA CORRY SUPPORT FOUNDATION on 06/02/2024
Main office

PENNY BROHN UK
CHAPEL PILL LANE
PILL
BRISTOL
BS20 0HH

Objectives

TO ADVANCE HEALTH AND RELIEVE SICKNESS AND DISTRESS, ESPECIALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN REGARD TO CANCER AND THOSE AFFECTED BY IT, BY SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR DISCRETION SHALL DECIDE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase

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