Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2010
Total
910,747
61,125
517,046
525,112
Support Costs Consist of: Staff costs Premises costs Communications costs Office costs Repairs and maintenance Legal and professional fees Irrecoverable VAT Other costs
2,014,030
1,910,236
2010 £
2009 £
99,947 137,423 16,256 64,319 758 136,720 48,171 21,518
142,075 135,214 4,676 40,269 3,824 20,954 77,761 24,648
525,112
449,421
Support costs have been allocated on the following bases: Staff costs – Time spent Professional fees and subscriptions – Time spent Communications – Apportionment of work carried out Premises costs – Headcount Other costs – Time spent
Grants paid Through its Innovation Programme, Bliss seeks to support the neonatal community in the UK to improve its capacity to deliver high quality neonatal care. The Bliss Innovation in Care Fund provides grants to healthcare professionals to enable them to develop and replicate innovations which have the potential to have a widespread positive impact on outcomes for babies born premature or sick. In 2009/10 Bliss made the following grants: 1. 2.
7.
Use of clinical simulation for neonatal training (Imperial College) £15,000 - development of the application of clinical simulation to multidisciplinary neonatal training. Maximising the benefits of parenteral nutrition (Liverpool Women’s Hospital) £46,125 – a two year project looking at the optimal way to deliver intravenous nutrition to premature babies.
STAFF COSTS
2010 £
2009 £
835,116 84,850 29,444
821,294 84,487 27,276
949,410
933,057
2010 No.
2009 No.
Staff costs consist of: Wages and Salaries Employer’s National Insurance Pension contributions
The average number of full-time equivalent employees during the year was: