Finance Score: 4
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 11
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 20 ?

ADHD FOUNDATION

Provision of information,guidance and adviceSupport for Parents and Children and Young People with ADHDEducation Programmes/Young Peoples Activities 1 to 1 Coaching. Support for young offenders with ADHD. Support for clinicians. Training for professionals - UK wide. Promoting awareness of ADHD and influencing policy and provision through the Government and other agencies.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are 14 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£1,833£1,811£22£2£59£00342
31/03/22£1,306£1,270£36£2£37£-67-0.63210
31/03/21£904£908£-3£1£1£-29-0.4203
31/03/20*£845£919£-74£0£4£40.11713
31/03/19£814£780£34£3£78£140.21513
31/03/18£729£747£-18£1£44£40.1150
31/03/17£679£621£58£0£61£30.1130
31/03/16£664£696£-32£0£3£20130
31/03/15£544£564£-20£1£35£270.6110
31/03/14£427£413£14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£230£247£-17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£221£230£-8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£147£164£-17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10*£97£162£-65n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09£316£331£-15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£285£158£127n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.1%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 77%
Liabilities/Income: 11%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 0%
Reserves/Spending: 0 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 0 months
Quick Ratio: 0
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 17 years
(19 years as a company)

www.adhdfoundation.org.uk

admin@adhdfoundation.org.uk

01515419020

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Social youth organisations
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£338,655
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government£269,201
DCMS£83,879
The Blagrave Trust£46,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£25,000
Barnwood Trust£20,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Blagrave Trust - The Listening Fund Youth Leadership Fund
£46,000 30/11/2023
ADHD Foundation - TLF Advisers' Fund
National Lottery Community Fund - National Neurodiversity Youth Council
£7,989 13/05/2022
The funding will be used to establish a new forum for young people with neurodiverse conditions. The project aims to build a community that empowers young people with ADHD Autism Dyslexia Dyspraxia ....more
Barnwood Trust - Gloucestershire Funders (Organisational & Group Funding)
£20,000 24/03/2022
Gloucester Neurodiversity Umbrella Project
National Lottery Community Fund - Neurodiversity Umbrella Training Centre
£330,666 20/10/2021
ADHD Foundation is a UK-wide charity that focusses on supporting those with learning differences such as ADHD Autism Dylexia Tourette’s and Dyspraxia. It does this through providing training to ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 25/06/2021
Umbrella Neurodiversity
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£83,879 11/06/2020
"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
CAF - Grant to ADHD Foundation Neurodiversity Charity
£7,080 23/04/2020
3
Grant to ADHD Foundation Neurodiversity Charity to support the organisation through COVID19
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government - FAITH RACE HATE - GRANT SCHEME
£269,201 01/04/2020
To promote shared values among people of all backgrounds through sustainable social integration
National Lottery Community Fund - The Umbrella Gang
£8,500 01/08/2019
12
The charity will bring parents and children together to design a book whose cast of heroes are all neurodiverse with the aim of helping children deal with learner anxiety, homework, exam stress, ....more
First Ark - Employment Training and Education
£75,000 19/06/2017
People with mental health needs
National Lottery Community Fund - 'See Me Not ADHD'
£310,486 10/08/2016
36
This continuation and expansion of an existing project will support and improve outcomes for children and families living with ADHD and related mental health problems common to ADHD. The project will ....more
Comic Relief - The Umbrella Project
£120,000 25/11/2015
36
2 - 5% of school age children live with ADHD (Royal College of Psychiatry, 2012). Medication is increasingly prescribed in the UK to help manage the condition, which commonly occurs alongside other ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Liverpool ADHD Foundation
£118,600 01/11/2015
This project will provide activities and support for children and young people with ADHD in Liverpool.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Liverpool ADHD Foundation
£33,000 28/02/2014
The charity delivers a range of services to improve the mental health and emotional well being, and increase equality of opportunity within education, employment and training, of children and young ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - The ADHD Project
£297,322 13/12/2012
36
This is a continuation and expansion of an existing project that aims to improve the life chances of disadvantaged children, young people and their families affected by ADHD in Liverpool. The ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (14)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 12/14 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 44-69
  • BEN JONES Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Head Of Infrastructure Heathrow Airport
  • DANIEL JOHNSON MSP Appointed: 2020
  • DR CHRISTINE CORNFORTH Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Psychologist
  • DR DIANE WASS Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Md Of Healthcare Communications Company
  • DR JEREMY FELLICK Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Doctor
  • DR SUZY YOUNG Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Forensic Research & Development
  • FINTAN CONNOLLY Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Company Director
  • JEAN FITZPATRICK Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Businesswoman
  • JOANNE PLATT Appointed: 2020, Occupation: General Manager Charity Organisation
  • LEE OMAR Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Ceo
  • PROFESSOR AMANDA KIRBY MBBS MRCGP (Chair) Appointed: 2020
  • PROFESSOR ANITA THAPAR Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Clinical Academic
  • PROFESSOR SAMUELE CORTESE MD PHD Appointed: 2021
  • TANIA MARTIN Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Consultant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 19/09/2007, number: 1120898
  • Registered at Companies House on 17/02/2005, number: 05368328
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
16 returns made; AR20: 2 days late, AR10: 15 days late,
Main office

3rd Floor
The Womens Organisation
54 St. James Street
LIVERPOOL

Objectives

1) THE RELIEF OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE UP TO THE AGE OF 19 IDENTIFIED WITH ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER AND ASSOCIATED CONDITIONS AND THEIR FAMILIES.2) TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER AND ASSOCIATED CONDITIONS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE NATIONAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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