SHIFT.MS

Registered charity 1117194 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FLICKER MS, FLICKER.MS

Shift.ms is a user-led social network - www.shift.ms - for people with Multiple Sclerosis (known as MSers), particularly the recently diagnosed. Shift.ms aims to create a positive, enabling community for MSers which empowers them to acknowledge their MS, rethink how to achieve their ambitions and get on with their lives.

Objects

To advance the education of the public in the subject of multiple sclerosis, in particular but not exclusively, by the provision of a website.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported total income of £1,201,728 and a net income of £246,621 for the year ended 30 April 2025. Free unrestricted reserves stood at £267,566, excluding designated funds for intangible assets. The accounts state there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited. Discloses 2 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Shift.ms (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (43% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 11.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Peter Malcolm Crookschair
• Carole Ann Huntsman
• Dr Alan Fayaz
• Francesca Arese Lucini
• Isaac David Joseph Batley
• Kevin Jon Asher
• Mary Rose Ropner
• Seema Sangar
• Thomas James Tyler · trustee of 1 other charity

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Australia · Canada · Guernsey · Ireland · Isle Of Man · New Zealand · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales · United States

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MS COMMUNITY ACTION & SUPPORT.

• MS COMMUNITY ACTION & SUPPORT income £14k
• MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY income £30.7m
• MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS-UK LIMITED income £1.6m
• MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS TRUST income £3.1m
• MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS THERAPY CENTRE (SOUTH YORKSHIRE) LIMITED income £150k
• MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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