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Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 0
  • Removed: -50
(no info on trustees)
    Overall GiG Score: -50 ?

    ACTION ON ADDICTION 

    Established: 17 years
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    Financial Data ?

    Income & Spending ?
    Sources of Income ?
    Y/E Income
    £k
    Spending
    £k
    Surplus/
    Deficit
    Fundraising
    Cost £k
    Total
    Funds £k
    Unrestricted
    Funds £k
    Mths
    Rsrvs
    Staff Volun-
    teers
    31/03/21£4,692£5,412£-720£172£3,345£3,0296.71170
    31/03/20£5,101£6,071£-970£356£4,065£3,8107.512610
    31/03/19£7,713£5,795£1,917£189£5,034£4,5459.414719
    31/03/18£5,963£6,276£-313£245£3,114£2,4614.715230
    31/03/17£6,021£5,858£163£255£3,429£2,6095.314410
    31/03/16£6,888£7,573£-685£269£3,261£2,8344.51540
    31/03/15£7,125£7,488£-363£349£3,950£2,9194.72340
    31/03/14£7,641£7,454£187£338£4,310£2,9794.81230
    31/03/13£6,774£6,931£-157£317£4,120£3,1565.51190
    31/03/12£6,706£6,492£214£376£4,275£2,8905.31150
    31/03/11£6,935£6,484£451£455£4,060£3,6676.81180
    31/03/10£6,185£5,998£187£450£3,606£3,3936.81310
    31/03/09£7,095£6,802£293£721£3,414£3,1515.61130
    31/03/08£7,250£7,414£-165£858£3,132£2,6664.31190

    Financial Ratios
    Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 3.8%
    Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 3.2%
    Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 5%
    Highest pay band: £150,000-£200,000
    Liabilities/Assets: 13%
    Liabilities/Income: 11%
    Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 91%
    Reserves/Spending: 6.7 months
    Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
    Quick Ratio: 1
    Asset Split ?
    Listed activities
    • Economic/Community Development/Employment
    • Education/Training
    • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
    • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
    How it operates
    • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
    • Makes Grants to Organisations
    • Provides services
    • Sponsors or undertakes research
    Where it operates
    • Dorset, Essex, Liverpool City, Throughout London, Wiltshire,
    Who it helps
    • Children/Young People
    • Elderly/Old People
    • Other Defined Groups
    • The General Public/Mankind
    Who works here?
    • 117 employees

    Who's supporting them? ?

    Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Action on Addiction
    £5,000 12/05/2015
    12
    Action on Addiction take a multi-dimensional approach to substance misuse and our projects reach those most in need through treatment including detox, where required, working with families of ....more
    Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Action on Addiction
    £75,000 04/12/2014
    24
    towards two years' running costs of an alcohol free cafe bar which serves as a hub for Liverpool's recovery community for services and support groups
    Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Action on Addiction
    £15,000 05/04/2011
    Towards supporting the core activities of an organisation representing the rights and interests of children affected by addictions within their family
    Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Action on Addiction
    £53,145 17/12/2008
    36
    Towards Project costs Towards the salary of the project manager and marketing costs of the M-PACT programme which supports 10 - 17 year olds whose parents have drug and/or alcohol problems.

    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees

    Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

    Legal constitution
    • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 15/02/2007, number: 1117988
    Gift Aid
    • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
    Policies in force
    • Complaints handling
    • Conflicting interests
    • Investment
    • Paying staff
    • Risk management
    • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
    • Volunteer management
    Filing Record
    14 returns made; all on time
    Main office


    Objectives

    2. ObjectsThe objects of the Charity are for the public benefit and particularly, but not exclusively, by working with persons suffering from alcoholism, addiction, offenders, ex-offenders, those at risk of offending, and marginalised groups in society:2.1 to relieve poverty, sickness and distress amongst:2.1.1 persons suffering from the effects of alcoholism, drug addiction or other forms of addiction or dependence to substances;2.1.2 persons engaged in substance misuse;2.1.3 persons suffering from other compulsive disorders and related mental illnesses; and2.1.4 the families and dependants of such persons;including but not limited to by the provision of treatment, advice, support, information and counselling to such persons, and to assist in the rehabilitation and recovery of such persons;2.2 to promote the health of such persons through the provision of medical or psycho-social interventions or other treatment;2.3 to advance the education: 2.3.1 and training of any person in the care or treatment of such persons working in the field of alcoholism, drug addiction or other forms of addiction or dependence to substances, substance misuse, other compulsive disorders and related mental illnesses; and2.3.2 of the public in all aspects of addiction problems, including alcohol and substance abuse; 2.4 to promote research into addiction, substance misuse, compulsive disorders and related mental illness, including their natures and causes, and physical, psychological and social consequences and methods of treatment, and into the care and treatment of persons who are suffering from the effects of alcoholism, drug addiction or other forms of addiction or dependence to substances, persons engaged in substance misuse, and persons suffering from other compulsive disorders and related mental illnesses and to disseminate all useful results of such research to the public;2.5 to prevent addiction, substance misuse, compulsive disorders and related mental illness and provide for the after care of those recovering (or who have recovered) from them;2.6 to promote the care, resettlement and rehabilitation of offenders, ex-offenders and those at risk of offending, and to support their families and dependants, in particular (but without limitation) by providing, promoting, supporting or organising the recruitment, employment, education and training of offenders, ex-offenders and those at risk of offending and to assist them in finding employment or self employment and accommodation and in rehabilitating themselves;2.7 to promote the prevention of crime and social exclusion by supporting or carrying on either alone or in co-operation with any other body, authority or person any project of scheme and by providing money for such purposes whether by loan or otherwise;2.8 to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and leisure time occupation with the objective of improving the conditions of life for the general public;2.9 to provide or assist in the provision of spiritual help and guidance for the beneficiaries identified in Articles 2.1.1 to 2.1.4 above.

    Defined Area of Benefit:

    NATIONAL

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving
    CharityBase

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