Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 7
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 19 ?

MSI REPRODUCTIVE CHOICES

MSI Reproductive Choices is one of the world's leading providers of sexual and reproductive healthcare. We believe that everyone should have the right to choose. From contraception to safe abortion and life-saving post- abortion care, we are committed to delivering compassionate, high- quality services. Our 9,000 team members work across 37 countries, reaching over 35,000 women each day.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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 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£414,355£313,839£100,516£1,998£245,567£200,2367.78,8300
31/12/22£322,504£302,075£20,429£1,361£150,728£102,8264.18,9930
31/12/21£290,629£282,686£7,943£966£130,087£84,6563.68,8030
31/12/20£294,440£288,101£6,339£1,230£121,589£76,5993.29,4760
31/12/19£308,265£301,413£6,852£1,218£118,730£72,6612.910,3000
31/12/18£296,849£289,145£7,704£1,331£111,727£66,8422.810,5120
31/12/17£296,124£300,888£-4,764£1,495£107,308£63,7272.511,6120
31/12/16£289,962£279,838£10,124£1,087£117,497£98,6694.212,3570
31/12/15£266,297£256,611£9,686£1,017£100,560£85,232412,4260
31/12/14£242,004£228,572£13,432£1,604£90,692£78,5064.110,3060
31/12/13£211,928£203,310£8,618£1,326£75,097£69,0834.18,7460
31/12/12£173,412£174,988£-1,576£1,245£66,818£59,6954.15,9470
31/12/11£145,173£139,905£5,268£905£78,354£69,1255.96,9570
31/12/10£129,860£125,947£3,913£701£73,194£54,5315.26,9660
31/12/09£114,850£118,007£-3,157£375£72,491£45,5434.66,0450
31/12/08£99,807£87,190£12,617£246£69,075£52,0237.23,4560
31/12/07£79,509£66,734£12,775£145£41,296£32,8225.95060
31/12/06£46,323£42,261£4,062n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/05£40,480£39,749£731n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/04£37,042£37,625£-583n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.5%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.7%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 7%
Highest pay band: £450,000-£500,000
Liabilities/Assets: 30%
Liabilities/Income: 26%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 82%
Reserves/Spending: 7.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 8 months
Quick Ratio: 0.7
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 51 years

https://www.msichoices.org/

info@msichoices.org

02070342369

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Practical support, advice & companionship
How it operates
  • Makes grants to organisations
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Burma, Cambodia, China, Congo (Democratic Republic), East Timor, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Jordan, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mexico, Mongolia, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Romania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Throughout England And Wales, Uganda, United States, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe,
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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Department of Health - NI Abortion MSI
£242,137 01/05/2022
To reimburse independent abortion providers for any abortion services provided to women usually resident in Northern Ireland travelling to England for an abortion procedure.To run a central booking ....more
LUND TRUST - Towards the Blue Door Fund.
£12,525,900 13/05/2021
To support mobile outreach services in Africa, South Asia, West Asia and the Middle East.
ARCADIA - Towards mobile outreach teams to support women and girls most in need
£7,000,000 15/03/2019
Allocated to the Blue Door Fund to support outreach services where they are most needed from March 2019 to December 2020
Department of Health - Marie Stopes (NI abortion)
£39,257 05/03/2018
To provide abortion services in England to women ordinarily resident in Northern Ireland free of charge.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 40-74
  • CLAIRE EMMA MORRIS Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Self Employed
  • DR KRISTIN ANNE RUTTER Appointed: 2011, Occupation: Management Consultant
  • DR MOHSINA AHSAN BILGRAMI Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Country Director Pakistan
  • DR MYRIAM ASSA SIDIBE Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director And Professor
  • FIONA MARGARET DUBY Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Consultant
  • MR FRANKI NICOLAS BRAEKEN Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Chief Investment Officer
  • MARK SLACK Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Chief Medical Officer
  • TANIA HOLT Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Senior Partner Mckinsey & Co. London
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 09/05/1973, number: 265543
  • Registered at Companies House on 16/03/1973, number: 01102208
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Care Quality Commission
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • 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
Filing Record
20 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR WOMEN'S RIGHT TO SAFE ABORTION on 11/07/2022
Main office

MSI Reproductive Choices
1 Conway St
Fitzroy Square
London

Objectives

TO PROVIDE SEXUAL, REPRODUCTIVE, MATERNAL AND GENERAL HEALTH SERVICES INCLUDING ADVICE, INFORMATION, EDUCATION, TRAINING, COUNSELLING, ADVOCACY, SCREENING, CLINICAL AND MEDICAL SERVICES AND TREATMENTTO REDUCE MATERNAL MORTALITY, RELIEVE SICKNESS AND PRESERVE PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SEXUAL HEALTH AND PREVENT POVERTY AND DISTRESS RESULTING FROM UNPLANNED CONCEPTIONTO CARRY OUT AND/OR PROMOTE THE CARRYING OUT OF RESEARCH RELATING TO SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH, MATERNAL AND GENERAL HEALTH

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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