Overall GiG Score: 10 ?
Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 9
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +6

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS THERAPY CENTRE (WESSEX) LIMITED 

Wessex MS Therapy provides therapies and help to people with MS and their carers in the area of Wiltshire, Somerset, Dorset and a part of Hampshire.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers, including a Community Foundation, recently
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 35 years

www.wessexms.co.uk

info@wessexms.co.uk

01985 217728

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UN SDGs
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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£332£278£54n/an/an/an/an/a72
31/12/21£221£250£-29n/an/an/an/an/a56
31/12/20£439£249£190n/an/an/an/an/a50
31/12/19£260£281£-21n/an/an/an/an/a54
31/12/18*£256£285£-29£0£0£0n/a060
31/12/17£324£374£-50£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/16£287£330£-43£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/15£227£208£19£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/14£188£192£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/13£209£187£22£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/12£149£173£-24£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/11*£153£170£-17£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/10£150£164£-13£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/09*£176£186£-10£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/08£162£155£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/07£142£150£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/06£143£129£14£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/05£130£139£-9£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/04*£127£120£7£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Disability
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who works here?
  • 72 volunteers
Who it helps
  • People With Disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bath And North East Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, North Somerset, Wiltshire,

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
DCMS£48,827
National Lottery Community Fund£20,000
The Clothworkers Foundation£5,500
Somerset Community Foundation£1,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Wessex Multiple Sclerosis Centre
£5,500 15/11/2023
Purchase of the hoist and harness trainer for wheelchair user physiotherapy for a charity which works with people with disabilities in Wiltshire.
National Lottery Community Fund - Music Therapy
£10,000 13/01/2023
The funding will be used to deliver music therapy sessions led by a music therapist where people with MS will be provided with the opportunity to sing together and form a choir which in turn will ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Oxygen Generation
£10,000 26/11/2021
The organisation will purchase equipment so it can produce its own oxygen for oxygen therapy sessions to support people with long term health conditions. This includes those with multiple sclerosis ....more
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Wessex Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre
£1,300 07/07/2021
We want to make our therapy garden sustainable with raised beds and plants to attract insects and birds. Our members in wheelchairs can enjoy scent and colour through senses.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£48,827 03/07/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
Somerset Community Foundation - COVID19 Remote support for vulnerable people
£1,500 15/05/2020
Remote support for vulnerable members during coronavirus
National Lottery Community Fund - Home Therapy
£4,657 18/01/2019
12
The funding will be used to purchase a piece of equipment which will offer oxygen therapy at home for people living with Multiple Sclerosis.
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Volunteer Coordinator increase in hours
£12,031 24/10/2018
The organisation provides a wide range of therapies to people suffering primarily from MS, but also to their families and carers, to reduce the impact of the illness on their quality of life. The ....more
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Wessex Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre
£7,500 15/05/2015
24
Wessex MS Therapy Centre aims to help members achieve a better quality of life by offering physical and emotional therapies to support them throughout their illness. The grant supported the costs of ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Wessex Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Garden
£10,000 27/03/2013
12
This is a project by a charity in Warminster, Wiltshire. The group will use the funding to provide a pathway to enable access to their therapy garden for people living with disabilities, their ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 50-78
  • SUE FRASER Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Retail Business Owner
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 13/03/1989, number: 800851
  • Registered at Companies House on 09/11/1988, number: 02315305
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
19 returns made; AR18: 74 days late, AR11: 52 days late, AR09: 5 days late, AR04: 15 days late,
Main office

Bradbury House
The Avenue
Warminster
Wilts
BA12 9AJ

Objectives

(1) TO AID AND IMPROVE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT (AS DEFINED IN THE MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION OF THE COMPANY) THE CONDITION OF THOSE SUFFERING FROM MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS BY ANY LAWFUL MEANS. (2) TO ASSIST ARMS (MULIPLE SCLEROSIS RESEARCH) LIMITED IN PROMOTING (WHETHER OR NOT WITHIN AREA OF BENEFIT) ALL OR ANY OF ITS OBJECTS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

COUNTIES OF SOMERSET, WILTSHIRE, AVON, HAMPSHIRE AND DORSET

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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