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|eference|||vestl|r|tution|ltle and<br>oseof<br>t|||o-ftmder|
|016-POI|||Dr Martin||University of|xploiting Notch regulation toprobe alternative||||
||||Baron||Manchester|echanisms ofTSCsi<br>lin||||
|2018-FOI|||Dr Kacper||Whitehead|dentifying<br>and creating more speci6c medicines|forTSC|||
||||Rogala||Institute-|his project focuses on research<br>into the structural|biology|||
||||||MIT|ofTSC and how this can help to identify<br>and create new and||||
|||||||more specific drugs to treat it.<br>It is hoped that the research||||
|||||||can contribute<br>towards<br>developing<br>a treatment<br>that would||||
|||||||provide<br>all the benefits ofrapamycin,<br>but without|its|||
|||||||nwanted<br>long-term<br>side-effects.||||
|2018-S02|||Dr Elaine||Cardiff|haracter1sing<br>the role ofexosomes in TSC||||
||||Dunlop||University|We know that TSC cysts surround<br>and hijack healthy||cells,||
||||||Hospital|in turn helping<br>the cysts grow. This project plans|to|||
|||||||collaborate<br>with world-leading<br>TSC experts to help better||||
|||||||nderstand<br>exactly how TSC cysts communicate|with|||
|||||||ealthy cells.<br>It is hoped that this research could|help|to||
|||||||eveal new ways ofpreventing<br>TSC cysts from growing,||||
|||||||thereby helping to develop better strategies<br>for treating||and||
|||||||managing TSC.||||





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||THE TUB|EROUS SCLE|ROSISASSOCIATION (REGISTEREDNUMBER: 029001|07)||
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|2018-S04|Professor|Cardiff|nderstanding<br>the limits ofeverolimus<br>and rapamycin|||
||ndrew|University|his project is investigating<br>the limits ofeverolimus<br>and|||
||ee|Hospital|apamycin,<br>specifically,<br>why<br>these<br>treatments<br>are<br>not|||
||||100'/o effective and why not all TSC tumours<br>respond<br>to|||
||||treatment<br>with them.<br>The team are currently<br>examining|||
||||how TSC tumour<br>cells in the lab respond<br>to a series of|||
||||new drugs<br>in clinical development<br>and will compare<br>the|||
||||effects<br>with<br>existing<br>treatments.<br>It is hoped<br>that<br>this|||
||||research<br>will<br>help<br>to<br>find<br>better<br>and<br>more<br>effective|||
||||reatments<br>for TSC patients.|||
|2019-POI|Dr Elaine|Cardiff|A model ofcell invasion in TSC-LAM|US Ministry|of|
||unlop|University|One of the<br>current<br>priorities<br>in TSC research<br>is to|Defence||
||||develop<br>a model ofthe human<br>circulatory<br>system<br>using|||
||||human<br>cells, so that scientists<br>can study LAM in more|||
||||detail.<br>LAM<br>(or<br>'lymphangioleiomyomatosis')<br>is<br>a|||
||||condition<br>affecting<br>around<br>35-40'/o of females<br>who live|||
||||with TSC. LAM is caused<br>by TSC cells moving<br>from|||
||||different<br>parts of the body to the lungs,<br>causing<br>cysts.|||
||||This new project aims to create a LAM model. If the|||
||||research<br>is successful,<br>it will<br>give<br>scientists<br>a better|||
||||understanding<br>of why<br>TSC LAM<br>happens<br>and<br>why|||
||||some cells invade the lungs whilst others do not.|||
|019-P02|r Sam|University|Better understanding<br>the accessibility of mental<br>health|nonymous|major|
||Amin and|ofBristol|services for children and young people with TSC|donor||
||Dr Ingram||This<br>project<br>aims<br>to<br>develop<br>an<br>understanding<br>of|||
||Wright||appropriate<br>and effective<br>ways for children<br>and young|||
||||people<br>with<br>TSC to access<br>available<br>mental<br>health|||
||||services<br>and<br>psychological<br>support<br>in the UK.<br>This|||
||||research<br>hopes<br>to<br>demonstrate<br>a<br>clear<br>benefit<br>of|||
||||providing<br>therapies<br>to children<br>and young<br>people<br>vvith|||
||||TSC who are experiencing<br>psychological<br>or emotional|||
||||distress.|||
|2019-P03|Professor|University of|The TANDem Project|ing Baudouin||
||etrus de|Cape Town|The TANDem Project brings together a worldwide<br>team|Foundation||
||Vries and|and UZ|of families<br>affected<br>by TSC, researchers<br>and clinicians|||
||Professor|Brussels|to provide<br>scientific<br>evidence<br>for greater<br>intervention|||
||nna||and<br>treatment<br>of TSC Associated<br>Neuropsychiatric|||
||anssen||Disorders<br>(such as anxiety,<br>depression<br>and<br>aggressive|||
||||behaviour).<br>The two-part project will first focus on the|||
||||development<br>of a<br>self-report<br>TAND<br>checklist<br>and|||
||||identification<br>smartphone<br>app, to measure<br>how people|||
||||are affected by TAND. The second part ofthe study will|||
||||investigate<br>the<br>best<br>ways<br>to treat<br>TAND,<br>including|||
||||agreement<br>on suitable<br>clinical<br>guidelines<br>for TAND.|||
||||Following<br>work in identifying<br>and treating<br>TAND, the|||
||||TANDem<br>Project will prepare a global team ofTAND|||
||||researchers<br>to raise awareness<br>and lead future<br>research|||
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|2019-F01|Dr|K.ing's|Designing<br>a protocol<br>to measure<br>the<br>developmental||||
||Charlotte|College|trajectory ofinfants with|Tuberous Sclerosis|||
||ye|London|The EDiTS study<br>team|have<br>developed<br>a|home-based||
||||assessment<br>to better monitor<br>and understand|||social and|
||||non-social<br>attention<br>in|toddlers<br>with TSC.||This<br>early|
||||intervention<br>solution|already<br>indicated|a|dramatic|
||||improvement<br>in<br>social|behaviour<br>linked||to<br>autism|
||||spectrum<br>disorder.<br>The|EDiTS study<br>is ongoing<br>and|||
||||aims<br>to pave<br>the<br>way|for the<br>design<br>of|more<br>early||
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||||||2021|2020|
||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
||||funds|funds|funds|funds|
|||Notes|||||
|INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM|||||||
|Donations<br>and legacies|||344,236||344,236|330,058|
|Charitable<br>activities|||||||
|Research|||77,969||77,969||
|Other trading activities|||6,290||6,290|2,884|
|Investment<br>income|||14,959||14,959|34,308|
|Other income||||||51,496|
|Total|||443,454||443,454|418,746|
|EXPENDITURE ON|||||||
|Raising funds|||127,006||127,006|110,927|
|Charitable<br>activities|||||||
|Family Care &.Support|||162,472||162,472|246,864|
|Research|||186,889||186,889|256,523|
|Total|||476,367||476,367|614,314|
|Net gains/(losses)<br>on|investments||52,835||52,835|(50,959)|
|NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)|||19,922||19,922|(246,527)|
|RECONCILIATION|OFFUNDS||||||
|Total funds brought forward|||972,169||972,169|1,218,696|
|TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD|||992,091||992,091|972,169|





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|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
|||funds|funds|funds|funds|
||Notes|||||
|FIXEDASSETS||||||
|Investments|13|906,723||906,723|960,594|
|CURRENT ASSETS||||||
|Debtors||90,740||90,740|82,171|
|Cash at bank||202,171||202,171|251,433|
|||292,911||292,911|333,604|
|CREDITORS||||||
|Amounts<br>falling due within one year|]5|(207,543)||(207,543)|(322,029)|
|NET CURRENT ASSETS||85,368||85,368|11,575|
|TOTAL ASSETSLESSCURRENT||||||
|LIABILITIES||992,091||992,091|972,169|
|NETASSETS||992,091||992,091|972,169|
|FUNDS|16|||||
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||Christmas<br>cards k other sales||6,290|2,884|
|3.|INVESTMENT INCOME||||
||||2021|2020|
||Deposit account interest|||141|
||Income from managed|portfolio|14,959|34,167|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT|COSTS||||||||
||||||||2021|2020|
|Portfolio management<br>charges|||||||8,307|8,496|
|GRANTS PAYABLE|||||||||
||||||||2021|2020|
|Research|||||||27,848|147,224|
|The total grants paid to institutions|during the year was as follows:||||||||
||||||||2021|2020|
|~ Whitehead<br>Institute - Towards Specific Mtor||Inhibitors||Capable|ofRescuing||||
|Tuberous<br>Sclerosis Complex Loss-of-function||||||||51,000|
|~ Cardiff University<br>-Targeting the|Refl/STAT3<br>axis||to|treat Tuberous|||||
|Sclerosis Complex||||||||32,719|
|~ Cardiff University<br>- Characterising|the Role|ofExosomes in Tuberous|||||||
|Sclerosis<br>*Cardiff University<br>- An innovative|model system of||cell invasion||in|||32,712|
|TSC/LAM to uncover new drug targets and therapies<br>*University ofBristol NHS Foundation<br>Trust - Randomised<br>Controlled||||||Trial of||30,793|
|Acceptance<br>and Commitment<br>Therapy<br>in the Tuberous|||Sclerosis Complex||||30,000||
|*TANDem Consortium|||||||26,289||
|~Centre for Integrative<br>Psysiology,|University|ofEdinburgh|||||(335)||
|~University ofBirmingham|||||||(3,499)||
|~institute ofPsychiatry,<br>Kings College London|||||||(24,607)||
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||Governance||
||Management|Finance|Other|costs|Totals|
|Family Care k, Support|675|712|12,996|7,531|21,914|
|Research||445|8,589|7,531|16,565|
||675|1,157|21,585|15,062|38,479|



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|---|---|---|---|
|Wages|and salaries|246,355|298,750|
|Social|security costs|16,907|26,928|
|Other|pension costs|17,053|16,743|
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|---|---|---|---|---|
|Fundraising|||3|2|
|Family Support<br>and Communications|||4|8|
|Research||||3|
||||10|13|
|No employees<br>received emoluments|in excess of%60,000.||||
|COMPARATIVES FORTHE STATEMENT OFFINANCIAL||ACTIVITIES|||
|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|
|||funds|funds|funds|
|INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM|||||
|Donations<br>and legacies||304,058|26,000|330,058|
|Other trading activities||2,884||2,884|
|Investment<br>income||34,308||34,308|
|Other income||51,496||51,496|
|Total||392,746|26,000|418,746|
|EXPENDITURE ON|||||
|Raising funds||110,927||110,927|
|Charitable<br>activities|||||
|Family Care & Suppo&t||246,864||246,864|
|Research||225,823|30,700|256,523|
|Total||583,614|30,700|614,314|
|Net gains/(losses)<br>on investments||(50,959)||(50,959)|
|NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)||(241,827)|(4,700)|(246,527)|
|RECONCILIATION<br>OFFUNDS|||||
|Total funds brought forward||1,213,.996|4,700|1,218,696|
|TOTAL FUNDSC~D FORWARD||972,169||972,169|





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|||THE TUBEROUS SCLEROSISASSOCIATION|THE TUBEROUS SCLEROSISASSOCIATION|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||Notes tothe Financiai Statements - continued||||
|||for the year ended 31December 2021||||
|11.|INTANGIBLE|FIXEDASSETS||||
||||||Database|
||||||costs|
||COST|||||
||At 1 January 2021 and 31 December||2021||19,624|
||AMORTISATION|||||
||At<br>1 January 2021 and 31December||2021||19,624|
||NET BOOKVALUE|||||
||At 31 December|2021||||
||At 31 December|2020||||
|12.|TANGIBLE FIXEDASSETS|||||
||||||Fixtures|
||||||and|
||||||fittings|
||COST|||||
||At<br>1 January 2021 and 31 December||2021||1,135|
||DEPRECIATION|||||
||At I January 2021 and 31 December||2021||1,135|
||NETBOOKVALUE|||||
||At 31December|2021||||
||At 31December|2020||||
|13.|FIXEDASSET|INVESTMENTS||||
|||||2021|2020|
||Shares|||545,214|570,319|
||Brewin Dolphin|capital account||361,509|390,275|
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|---|---|
||investments|
|MARKET VALUE||
|At I January 2021|570,319|
|Additions|121,814|
|Disposals|(199,754)|
|Revaluations|52,835|
|At 31 December 2021|545,214|
|NET BOOKVALUE||
|At 31 December 2021|545,214|
|At 31 December 2020|570,319|



|||2021|2020|
|---|---|---|---|
||Brewin Dolphin capital account|361,509|390,275|
|14.|DEBTORS:AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WIIHIN ONE YEAR|||
|||2021|2020|
||Other debtors|15,133|82,171|
||Prepayments|75,607||
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|||At 1.1.21|SOFA|Paid|At31.12.21|
|~ University ofBirmingham||3,499|(3,499)|||
|~ Institute ofPsychiatry,<br>Kings College||||||
|London - Designing<br>aProtocol to Measure||||||
|the Development<br>Trajectory ofInfants|with|||||
|Tuberous Sclerosis<br>*Institute ofMedical Genetics, Cardiff<br>*Centre for Integrative<br>Physiology,||24,607<br>1,371|(24,607)||1,371|
|University ofEdinburgh<br>*Institute ofPsychiatry,<br>Kings College||335|(335)|||
|London||14,153||14,153||
|~ Cardiff University||618|||618|
|~ Research Department<br>ofGenetics,||||||
|University<br>College, London||513|||513|
|~ University<br>ofManchester,<br>Faculty of|Life|||||
|Sciences||15,698||15,472|226|
|~ Erasmus MC, Department ofClinical||||||
|Genetics||180|||180|
|~ University<br>College London - The TSCI||||||
|and TSC2 Variation Databases<br>*Whitehead<br>Institute - Towards specific||8,881||8,653|228|
|Motor Inhibitors<br>capable ofrescuing||||||
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|loss-of-function||24,336||24,151|185|
|~ Cardiff University<br>-Targeting the||||||
|RefllSTAT3 axis to treat Tuberous||||||
|Sclerosis Complex||37,424||22,493|14,931|
|~ Cardiff University<br>- Characterising<br>the||||||
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|CREDlTORS: AMOUN|TS FALLI|TS FALLI|TS FALLI|NG DUE WII|HIN ONE YEA|R - continued|||
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|*Institute ofPsychiatry|Psychology|||and|||||
|Neuroscience - Neurocognitive||predictors of|||||||
|neurodevelopmental<br>impairment|||in|infants|||||
|and toddlers<br>with TSC<br>*Cardiff University<br>- An innovative||||model|11,549||9,032|2,517|
|system to cell invasion|in TSC/LAM to||||||||
|uncover new drug targets and therapies|||||47,000||25,565|21,435|
|~TANDem<br>Consortium|-to fund||a number||||||
|ofsmall seed projects linked to||the|||||||
|TANDem project to help build||research|||||||
|capacity in TAND.||||||26,289||26,289|
||||||293,515|27,848|179,745|141,618|
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||||||||movement|At|
|||||||At 1.1.21|in funds|31.12.21|
|Unrestricted<br>funds|||||||||
|General<br>fund||||||120,686|(11,717)|108,969|
|Designated<br>Endowment|Fund|||||851,483|31,639|883,122|
|||||||972,169|19,922|992,091|
|TOTAL FUNDS||||||972,169|19,922|992,091|
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||||||Incoming|Resources|Gains and|Movement|
||||||resources|expended|losses|in funds|
|Unrestricted<br>funds|||||||||
|General<br>fund|||||428,495|(440,212)||(11,717)|
|Designated<br>Endowment|Fund||||14,959|(36,155)|52,835|31,639|
||||||443,454|(476,367)|52,835|19,922|
|TOTAL FUNDS|||||443,454|(476,367)|52,835|19,922|





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|||||At 1.1.20|in funds|31.12.20|
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|General|fund|||190,000|(69,314)|120,686|
|Designated||Endowment|Fund|1,023,996|(172,513)|851,483|
|||||1,213,996|(241,827)|972,169|
|Restricted funds|||||||
|Research||||4,700|(4,700)||
|TOTAL|FUNDS|||1,218,696|(246,527)|972,169|



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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||resources|expended|losses|in funds|
|Unrestricted||funds||||||
|General|fund|||358,580|(427,894)||(69,314)|
|Designated||Endowment|Fund|34,166|(155,720)|(50,959)|(172,513)|
|||||392,746|(583,614)|(50,959)|(241,827)|
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|Scotland||||4,000|(4,000)|||
|||||26,000|(30,700)||(4,700)|
|TOTAL|FUNDS|||418,746|(614,314)|(50,959)|(246,527)|



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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||Detailed Statement ofFinancial Activities|||
|||||forthe year ended 31December 2021|||
||||||2021|2020|
|INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS|||||||
|Donations and legacies|||||||
|Donations<br>and subscription|||||269,709|327,058|
|Grants|||||74,527|3,000|
||||||344,236|330,058|
|Other trading|activities||||||
|Christmas<br>cards &,other sales|||||6,290|2,884|
|Investment<br>income|||||||
|Deposit account interest||||||141|
|Income from|managed|portfolio|||14,959|34,167|
||||||14,959|34,308|
|Charitable<br>activities|||||||
|Conference|||||77,969||
|Other income|||||||
|Government|grants - CJRS|||||51,496|
|Total incoming resources|||||443,454|418,746|
|Raising donations<br>and legacies|||||||
|Wages|||||75,855|68,133|
|Social security|||||5,078|4,521|
|Pensions|||||5,309|2,769|
|Events fees|||||1,368|280|
|Sundries|||||3,727|2,391|
|Travel &Communications|||||1,803|1,884|
|Bid writing|||||2,400|2,800|
|Stafftraining|||||676||
|Marketing &Media|||||1,783|2,622|
|Insurance|||||1,327|1,33?|
|Office costs|||||7,828|4,452|
|Professional|fees||||591|687|
|Accountancy|&legal fees||||4,812|5,317|
|AGM, Big Day and Annual|||Report costs||2,719|2,770|
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|||Detailed Statement ofFinancial Activities|||
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|||for the year ended 31December 2021|||
||||2021|2020|
|Raising donations<br>and|legacies||||
|Other trading activities|||||
|Christmas<br>card sales|||3,123|2,380|
|Investment<br>management|costs||||
|Portfolio management|charges||8,307|8,496|
|Charitable<br>activities|||||
|Wages|||170,500|230,617|
|Social security|||11,829|22,407|
|Pensions|||11,744|13,974|
|Sundries||||I|
|Stafftraining|||1,710|3,714|
|Accommodation<br>and room hire||||4,532|
|Publications<br>Travel k Communications|||178<br>234|7,409<br>4,750|
|Benevolent<br>grants|||3,379|3,070|
|Family days and weekends||||314|
|Subscriptions|||2,494|2,041|
|Postage and Stationery|||594|2,751|
|Sundries|||2,158|5,054|
|Insurance|||1,680|758|
|ITand GDPR services|||13,853|540|
|Marketing k.Media|||978|2,610|
|Professional<br>fees||||1,016|
|Conference|||52,467||
|Scan|||9,236||
|Grants to institutions|||27,848|147,224|
||||310,882|452,782|
|Support costs|||||
|Management|||||
|Chief executive expenses||||154|
|Recruitment<br>costs|||675|50|
||||675|204|
|Finance|||||
|Postage and stationery|||1,157|358|
|Bank charges||||716|
|Fixtures and fittings||||763|
||||1,157|1,837|
|Other|||||
|ITk, GDPR Services|||11,047|15,113|
|Carried forward|||11,047|15,113|





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||||TH|E TUBEROUS SCLEROSISASSOCIATION|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||Detailed Statement ofFinancial Activities|||
|||||for the year ended 31December 2021|||
||||||2021|2020|
|Other|||||||
|Brought forward|||||11,047|15,113|
|Insurance|||||2,654|2,674|
|Office costs|||||5,042|10,386|
|Sundries|||||734|723|
|Professional||fees|||1,281|3,441|
|Travel|||||827|127|
|Loss on sale||oftangible|fixed assets|||(75)|
||||||21,585|32,389|
|Governance|costs||||||
|Accountancy||and legal|fees||9,623|10,634|
|Annual<br>report|||||5,439|5,541|
||||||15,062|16,175|
|Total resources||expended|||476,367|614,314|
|Net expenditure|||||(32,913)|(195,568)|



