Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: -2
Support Score: 3
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Grant maker support: +3
Overall GiG Score: -1 ?

BRAVO MEDICS 

Provision of equipment, training and ongoing financial support allowing doctors and other critical care trained clinicians to respond as volunteers when requested by the statutory ambulance service.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from a grant maker

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • There are only 4 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Income was significantly lower than spending in the latest year

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit
Volun-
teers
31/12/22£48,454£61,703£-13,2495
31/12/21£42,863£16,212£26,6516
31/12/20£25,854£18,150£7,7044
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 4 years

www.bravomedics.org

admin@bravomedics.org

02073795114

Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebookX
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • General outpatient health-care services
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bath And North East Somerset, Bristol City, Devon, Dorset, North Somerset, Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Wiltshire,

Who supports 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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Bravo Medics
£750 22/02/2023
Bravo Medics provides a volunteer on-call doctor service which responds to emergency incidents across Bristol, Gloucester, Somerset and Wiltshire. Grant to help with running costs.
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Bravo Medics
£13,329 16/12/2021
Bravo Medics provides a volunteer on-call doctor service which responds to emergency incidents across Bristol, Gloucester, Somerset and Wiltshire. Grant request towards the cost to respond to ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 04/06/2020, number: 1189780
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Filing Record
3 returns made; all on time
Main office

GARDEN COTTAGE
LONG LANE
WRINGTON
BRISTOL
BS40 5SA

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE SAVING OF LIVES, PRESERVING AND PROTECTING THE HEALTH OF INDIVIDUALS LIVING WITHIN THE CIO’S GEOGRAPHICAL AREA OF OPERATION BY PROVIDING EQUIPMENT TRAINING AND ONGOING FINANCIAL SUPPORT ALLOWING DOCTORS AND OTHER CRITICAL CARE TRAINED CLINICIANS TO RESPOND AS VOLUNTEERS WHEN REQUESTED BY THE STATUTORY AMBULANCE SERVICES WITHIN THE OPERATIONAL AREA OF SOUTH WESTERN AMBULANCE SERVICE FOUNDATION TRUST. IN EXCEPTIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES SUCH AS MAJOR INCIDENTS, ASSISTANCE MAY BE GIVEN TO OTHER AMBULANCE SERVICES. THE BENEFICIARIES OF THE RESPOND PROVIDED BY BRAVO MEDICS WILL BE THE PERSONS WHO ARE BELIEVED TO BE CRITICALLY INJURED OR CRITICALLY UNWELL WITHIN THE DEFINED OPERATIONAL AREA.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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