Finance Score: 8
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 13
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Future income +5
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +13
Overall GiG Score: 24 ?

NATIONAL SURVIVOR USER NETWORK

The objective of the Charity is to provide for the public benefit, to promote good health and to advance education in particular but not exclusively:1.Facilitating active links between service user groups and individuals2.Build capacity for service user groups3.Broker and facilitate access to service users for purposes of influencing and informing policy-makers and planners.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end

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£864£705£159£21£315£981.7100
31/03/22£508£488£21£18£155£721.860
31/03/21£562£461£101£21£135£731.9311
31/03/20£236£230£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£215£258£-43n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18*£273£264£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£276£327£-51n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16*£409£369£40n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£408£374£34n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£490£554£-64n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£494£467£27n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£247£249£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£197£248£-51n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 2.4%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 2.9%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 11%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 14%
Liabilities/Income: 6%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 31%
Reserves/Spending: 1.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 6.4
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 14 years

www.nsun.org.uk

info@nsun.org.uk

020 7820 8982

Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebookX
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Philanthropic intermediaries and voluntarism promotion
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities

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
Lankelly Chase Foundation£1,594,479
The Blagrave Trust£855,000
National Lottery Community Fund£323,149
Trust for London£233,350
Joseph Rowntree Foundation£84,620
City Bridge Trust£60,696
Esmee Fairbairn£33,000
LGBT Consortium£25,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Trust for London - National Survivor User Network
£118,000 09/01/2024
24
The funding is for the continuation of the Policy Manager post at NSUN to continue its rights-based transformative mental health policy work by responding to policy developments and supporting and ....more
The Blagrave Trust - Flexible Fund
£855,000 30/04/2023
Re-imagining safety
LGBT Consortium - National Survivor User Network
£25,000 21/11/2022
Funding to support and expand our year-long, in-person, immersive Misery Medicine: Plant Magic program - a series of monthly walks for QTIBPOC, to build community whilst learning about herbs that ....more
Trust for London - National Survivor User Network - NSUN
£4,050 29/09/2022
This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-02.06.2020-8643
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Grant to National Survivor User Network
£84,620 08/07/2022
Mental health and migrant justice: building connections and solidarity
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to NSUN (National Survivor User Network)
£38,179 02/03/2022
NSUN (National Survivor User Network)
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to NSUN (National Survivor User Network)
£1,500,000 02/02/2022
NSUN (National Survivor User Network)
Tudor Trust - Grant to National Survivor User Network
£5,000 17/01/2022
as a development grant for an internal strategic review for a charity linking groups and individuals with mental health issues across England and supporting them collectively to influence policy and ....more
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to NSUN (National Survivor User Network)
£30,000 31/03/2021
NSUN (National Survivor User Network)
Tudor Trust - Grant to National Survivor User Network
£2,000 13/01/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
National Lottery Community Fund - Doing It For Ourselves
£278,868 15/12/2020
35
The organisation is using funding to support their two key priorities: building the resilience of local grassroots groups which provide opportunities for people with mental health issues to connect ....more
Trust for London - National Survivor User Network - NSUN
£111,300 07/10/2020
36
The funding is to develop a Londoners' New Deal for Mental Health, focusing on material conditions which exacerbate mental ill-health and contributes to their poverty.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to National Survivor User Network
£48,696 13/08/2020
towards the costs outlined in your application for capacity building of user-led organisations in London working with people living with mental ill-health, distress or trauma during the Covid-19 ....more
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to NSUN (National Survivor User Network)
£10,000 10/08/2020
NSUN (National Survivor User Network)
CAF - Grant to National Survivor User Network
£8,000 15/06/2020
3
Grant to National Survivor User Network to support the organisation through COVID19
National Lottery Community Fund - Covid-19 Funding
£44,281 11/06/2020
6
The funding will be used to bring together over 400 local groups and 4200 individual members across England to communicate support each other and share experiences.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to National Survivor User Network
£12,000 22/05/2020
A grant of £12,000 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the appliciation, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to National Survivor User Network (NSUN)
£33,000 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 fast response grant
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to NSUN (National Survivor User Network)
£16,300 06/04/2020
NSUN (National Survivor User Network)
Tudor Trust - Grant to National Survivor User Network
£60,000 09/09/2019
36
over three years as core funding for a charity linking groups and individuals with mental health issues across England and supporting them collectively to influence policy and practice
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to National Survivor User Network (NSUN)
£198,000 22/05/2019
36
Towards unrestricted core costs to continue work to strengthen the user-voice in mental health policy and practice.
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Core funding
£15,000 04/03/2019
Consultancy costs relating to their organisational restructure
Tudor Trust - Grant to National Survivor User Network
£30,000 29/05/2018
12
over one year as core funding for this national mental health user voice charity, over a period of restructuring
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Core funding
£30,000 21/05/2018
10
To support operational costs for FY 2018/19
National Lottery Community Fund - improving infrasructure
£9,923 06/12/2017
12
This project will improve and maintain the group's computer system and digital platform in order to better support people who are experiencing mental ill health, allowing them to provide a higher ....more
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Re-igniting the space
£112,500 17/10/2017
24
‘Re-igniting the space’ for BAME mental health service user and survivor voice, building support and momentum through networks of community organisations, groups and activists.
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Insight
£223,875 14/08/2017
18
Core funding for the Insight project who support organisations to develop their service user involvement infrastructure through an in-depth consultancy model, from audit and assessment of current ....more
Trust for London - National Survivor User Network - NSUN
£75,000 02/03/2017
36
The funding is to support the salary of the London Project Coordinator to strengthen the capacity, voice and influence of individuals with a history of mental ill health who are marginalised by their ....more
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Real Insight
£147,000 10/08/2016
12
To complete and build on the work of the pilot phase of Real Insight's work to audit and enhance the level of service user ownership and empowerment within services for people facing multiple ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to National Survivor User Network
£7,500 18/12/2015
as a development grant towards communications and branding work for this national user-led mental health charity
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Real Insight
£125,386 27/10/2015
18
To host and support Real Insight to create and test a transformational co-production model led by a group of people with lived experience of multiple and complex needs, which aims to redefine power ....more
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Real Insight
£15,000 05/10/2015
12
To provide additional support to Real Insight as part of the hosting agreement,
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to National Survivor User Network (NSUN)
£180,000 23/06/2015
36
Towards costs to develop the next stage of work to support mental health service users to network, support each other and inform wider mental health policy.
Comic Relief - NSUN, Driving Change
£70,000 28/01/2015
12
Mental health services across the UK are under significant pressure and many are now in crisis.There remains a need for a national group to empower, equip and enable mental health service users to ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to National Survivor User Network
£50,000 23/12/2014
over one year as continuation funding for this user-led mental health network for England and Wales
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to National Survivor User Network (NSUN)
£166,317 30/06/2011
Towards developing capacity and expertise to collate policy information and users' ideas to inform user input into mental health policy.
National Lottery Community Fund - Buidling IT Infrastructure of NSUN
£10,000 26/08/2010
12
This is a project by a community organisation in Vauxhall who will use the funding to improve their IT infrastructure and enable the group to increase their provision to service users.
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How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed

  • ALISDAIR STEWART CAMERON
  • ANDREW PAYNE WORPOLE Appointed: 2023
  • AQSA SULEMAN Appointed: 2023
  • DR AMY RUSHTON (Chair) Appointed: 2020
  • MICHA FRAZER-CARROLL Appointed: 2023
  • RACHEL ROWAN OLIVE Appointed: 2019
  • TASHA SURATWALA Appointed: 2021
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 18/05/2010, number: 1135980
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment 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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
13 returns made; AR18: 1 days late, AR16: 1 days late,
Main office

c/o Beever and Struthers
150 Minories
London
EC3N 1LS

Objectives

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO PROMOTE GOOD HEALTH AND TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY: 1 CREATING A NETWORK WHICH WILL ENGAGE AND SUPPORT THE WIDE DIVERSITY OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE USERS AND SURVIVORS ACROSS ENGLAND IN ORDER TO STRENGTHEN THE USER VOICE 2 FACILITATING ACTIVE LINKS BETWEEN SERVICE USER GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS 3 BUILDING CAPACITY FOR SERVICE USER GROUPS 4 BROKERING AND FACILITATING ACCESS TO SERVICE USERS FOR PURPOSES OF INFLUENCING AND INFORMING POLICY-MAKERS AND PLANNERS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

ENGLAND

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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