Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 6
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Overall weighted support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

LITTLELIFTS

A charity supporting people undergoing treatment for primary and secondary breast cancer.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly female

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

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
31/12/23£494£487£7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/22£449£383£66n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/21£254£253£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/20£242£144£98n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/19£153£114£38n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/18£81£55£26n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/17£50£5£45n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 8 years

www.littlelifts.org.uk

hello@littlelifts.org.uk

07944464864

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
GiG Classification
  • Practical support, advice & companionship
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind

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
Crowdfunder£13,641
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
DCMS£9,846
Essex Community Foundation£3,775
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Essex Community Foundation - Little Lifts
£3,775 01/03/2024
to provide comfort care gift boxes for people undergoing treatment for breast cancer at Colchester Hospital and living in the East of England Co-op’s operational area
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£750 19/02/2024
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
Crowdfunder - Local Action Fund
£5,950 26/07/2022
Covid response
Crowdfunder - Local Action Fund
£7,691 05/05/2022
Covid response
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Littlelifts
£1,534 23/10/2021
With your help, we hope to support 540 women who will be receiving radiotherapy treatment for breast cancer in Norfolk with a littlelifts box, which offers practical support and mood-boosting goodies.
National Lottery Community Fund - support for people affected by breast cancer
£10,000 30/09/2021
The funding will be used to redesign and improve the group’s website presence. The project aims to increase their digital offer and capacity to meet an increased demand for people living with the ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,846 17/08/2020
"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
Suffolk Community Foundation - Supporting women with incurable breast cancer
£3,000 29/04/2020
12
To provide 50 'littlelifts' boxes to women with breast cancer receiving chemotherapy at Ipswich Hospital
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 5/6 persons

  • DR KARYN MAIER (Chair) Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Founder/Leadership Development Consultancy
  • ELLA WISBEY Appointed: 2016
  • JILL WARD Appointed: 2020
  • JONATHAN HALL Appointed: 2021
  • PER HALL Appointed: 2020
  • ZOE HILL Appointed: 2022
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 14/12/2016, number: 1170737
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
7 returns made; all on time
Main office

Little Lifts
Bowthorpe Hall
Bowthorpe Hall Road
Norwich
NR5 9AA

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND SIDE EFFECTS TO EASE THE SUFFERING, BOTH MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY, OF CHEMOTHERAPY AND/OR RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT TO WOMEN AND MEN AGED 18 AND ABOVE WHO HAVE PRIMARY AND SECONDARY BREAST CANCER AND WHO ARE LIVING IN ENGLAND, WALES, SCOTLAND, NORTHERN ISLAND, CHANNEL ISLANDS OR ISLE OF MAN. IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY PROVIDING THEM WITH A LITTLELIFTS BOX AT THE START OF OR DURING THEIR CHEMOTHERAPY AND/OR RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE 'PRIMARY BREAST CANCER' MEANS THAT THE CANCER HAS NOT SPREAD BEYOND THE BREAST OR LYMPH NODES UNDER THE ARM.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE ‘SECONDARY BREAST CANCER’ MEANS THAT THE CANCER HAS SPREAD TO OTHER PARTS OF THE BODY BEYOND THE BREAST OR LYMPH NODES UNDER THE ARM.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE 'CHEMOTHERAPY' MEANS THE TREATMENT OF CANCER BY THE USE OF CHEMICAL SYSTEMIC ANTI-CANCER TREATMENT (SACT).FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE ‘RADIOTHERAPY’ MEANS THE TREATMENT OF HIGH-ENERGY X-RAYS TO DESTROY CANCER CELLS. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE SICKNESS AND SIDE EFFECTS CAN VARY AMONGST WOMEN AND MEN, BUT MOST COMMON ARE TIREDNESS, WEAKNESS, SICKNESS, SORE MOUTH, HAIR LOSS, SORE EYES, DRY/SORE SKIN, CONSTIPATION, DIARRHOEA, LOSS OF APPETITE AND LOSS OF TASTE. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE LITTLELIFTS BOXES WILL CONTAIN ITEMS AIMED TO RELIEVE SOME OF THE SIDE EFFECTS WOMEN AND MEN MAY EXPERIENCE AS WELL AS PROVIDING COMFORT AND WELL-BEING.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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