Foundation

The Movement Foundation is a limited company and a registered charity. The trustees of the charity are also directors of the company. Trustees are selected and invited to join in order to provide the Board with a mix of necessary skills, covering many areas including physiotherapy but also engineering, fund-raising and business management. No members of the Foundation (trustees or patrons) receive any remuneration for their work.

The Foundation is the legal entity, and has responsibility for employing the staff of the Centre. The Movement Centre is an Operating Division of the Foundation, and comprises a Chief Executive, a Business Manager, and a team of admin and physiotherapy staff.

Management

The daily work of managing the Centre falls on the Chief Executive, Dr Penny Butler. Penny is supported in her work by the trustees. A subset of the trustees, known as the Executive, meets monthly to progress current issues, and all trustees are invited to meet on a quarterly basis.

Strategy

Trustees and the TMC Chief Executive worked together in late 2009 to determine a future strategy for the work of the Centre. It was clear that the service offered was valuable and in demand, yet the number of children that could be seen was limited by funding, staff and accommodation.

The core of the new strategy is to make the necessary changes to enable TMC to double its throughput of patients during the next year or two. This is now a part of the annual plan for the Centre. The resource constraints will be removed progressively as opportunity allows, and changes have already begun:

- Staffing

In January 2011 a new position of Business Manager was created and filled. This will remove much of the non-medical workload from the Chief Executive and allow the medical side to be developed.

- Accommodation

Coincidentally, our landlords (the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital) have plans for the site and as a result we are relocating on the site to larger premises.

- Funding

Funding remains a critical area and receives much attention, particularly in the light of the expected cessation of Primary Care Trusts, who are currently an important source of funds.

Finances

We are a small charity, much in demand and seeking to grow. We are very efficient – administration costs amount to about 3% of our total expenditure, well within the maximum of 10% recommended by the Charity Commissioners. We also keep some funds in reserve so that we are always confident of being able to complete the nine-month courses of therapy that are underway.

We produce a number of documents each year that report our activities, and these are available here.

We are always looking for sources of funding, so if you can help in any way please take a look here. Not only would we like your money, but perhaps more importantly we would like to create links between TMC/TMF and other organisations to stimulate ideas that lead to sustained financial support for our work.