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Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 8
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 9 ?

TRANSFORM DRUG POLICY FOUNDATION

Carrying out research, policy analysis and innovative policy development. Challenging government to demonstrate ratonal, fact based evidence to support its policies and expenditure. Promoting alternative, evidence based policies to parliamentarians, government and government agencies. advising NGOs whose work is affected by drugs.Providing an informe clear voice on international and UK drug policy
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k		 Spending
£k		 Surplus/
Deficit £k		 Fundraising
Cost £k		 Total
Funds £k		 Unrestricted
Funds £k		 Mths
Rsrvs		 Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£363£414£-51n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£459£373£86n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£379£395£-16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£319£399£-80n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£566£340£226£12£445£34212.1812
31/03/18£288£305£-17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£312£293£19n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£314£312£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£249£285£-36n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£250£250£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13*£247£275£-28n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£242£244£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£230£230£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£224£229£-5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09£133£171£-39n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£92£127£-35n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07£100£111£-11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06£76£97£-21n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£89£94£-5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
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Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 22%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Balance Sheet History
Established: 21 years

www.transformdrugs.org

info@transformdrugs.org

01174420880

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Other Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Legal & financial advice
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Tudor Trust£152,000
John Ellerman Foundation£120,000
Trust for London£82,000
Esmee Fairbairn£30,000
AB Charitable Trust£20,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Transform Drug Policy Foundation
£20,000 04/07/2023
An unrestricted grant of £20,000. Transform Drug Policy Foundation focuses on drug policy reform through producing academic research and policy advocacy.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Transform Drug Policy Foundation
£5,000 06/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Trust for London - Transform Drug Policy Foundation
£2,000 29/09/2022
This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-06.10.2020-8798
John Ellerman Foundation - Core costs for our Anyone's Child: Families for Safer Drug Control campaign
£120,000 27/05/2021
36
Towards the costs of their campaign "Anyone's Child: Families for Safer Drug Control" to allow families whose lives have been devastated by current drug laws to campaign for legal control and regulation of the drug market in order to save ....more
Trust for London - Transform Drug Policy Foundation
£80,000 24/02/2021
The funding is for forming an alliance between Transform and Blaksox. The goal is to develop a black-led resource that ensures voices of African and Caribbean Heritage (ACH) communities are heard in the drug policy debate.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Transform Drug Policy Foundation
£2,000 05/02/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
Tudor Trust - Grant to Transform Drug Policy Foundation
£150,000 22/10/2020
36
over three years as continuation funding towards the Anyone's Child project, which involves families in publicising the damaging effects of punitive drugs policies
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Transform Drug Policy Foundation
£25,000 19/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Transform Drug Policy Foundation
£200,000 18/06/2019
48
Towards core costs to support changes to drug policy in the UK.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Transform Drug Policy Foundation
£102,000 28/01/2019
24
over two years as continuation funding for the Anyone's Child project to publicise the effects on UK families of punitive drugs policies
John Ellerman Foundation - Core costs
£120,000 25/01/2018
36
Towards the core costs of developing and supporting the "Anyone's Child" network, which supports and gives a voice to families who have lost a child to drugs
Tudor Trust - Grant to Transform Drug Policy Foundation
£80,000 16/11/2016
24
over two years towards the Anyone's Child project to publicise the effects on UK families of punitive drugs policies
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Transform Drug Policy Foundation
£200,000 23/06/2015
48
Towards core costs of an organisation that campaigns for new approaches to the regulation of drugs.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Transform Drug Policy Foundation
£200,000 15/07/2010
48
Towards Unrestricted core costs Towards the core costs of an organisation that campaigns for different approaches to the control and licensing of drugs.
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How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 27-67
  • JASON KEW Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Senior Innovative Practice Officer
  • KATRINA FFRENCH Appointed: 2022
  • MX JAY JACKSON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Parliamentary Campaigner
  • NINA ANN EDMONDS Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Finance Director
  • ROWAN MILLER Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Fund Manager
  • SHAHANARA ISLAM Appointed: 2023
  • VICKY UNWIN (Chair) Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Writer
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 04/11/2003, number: 1100518
  • Registered at Companies House on 11/08/2003, number: 04862177
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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
  • 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
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR13: 0 days late,
Main office

THE STATION
SILVER STREET
BRISTOL
BS1 2AG

Objectives

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND ORGANISATIONS IN DRUG POLICY BY RESEARCH AND DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION WITH A VIEW TO INCREASING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SUCH POLICY AND TO PRESERVE AND SAFEGUARD THE INTERESTS OF THE PUBLIC.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE WORLDWIDE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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