Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 8
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Strong growth: +2
    • Overall weighted support: +8
    Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

    DERBYSHIRE ADDICTIONS ADVICE SERVICE

    To promote the prevention and identification of substance misuse problems, to assist those in Derbyshire with substance misuse related problems and to advance education and awareness relating to substance misuse.To promote Positive change and work in partnership to support recovery from substance misuse for anyone adversely affected including relatives, families and friends.
    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
    • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
    • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
    • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

    Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

    • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return

    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
    01/04/24£801£799£3£0£546£4927.4208
    01/04/23£794£737£57£0£543£4948195
    01/04/22*£682£667£15£0£486£4678.4186
    01/04/21£704£706£-2£0£471£4086.9185
    01/04/20?£704£700£4£0£473£3676.3176
    01/04/18£783£674£108£0£417£3275.8170
    01/04/17£754£761£-6£0£309£3044.8200
    01/04/16£788£720£68£0£323£3025210

    Financial Ratios
    Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
    Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
    Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
    Liabilities/Assets: 19%
    Liabilities/Income: 16%
    Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 90%
    Reserves/Spending: 7.4 months
    Net Current Assets/Spending: 8 months
    Quick Ratio: 5
    Asset Split ?
    Balance Sheet History
    Established: 10 years

    www.daas.uk.com

    daas@daas.uk.com

    01246206514

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    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • Education/Training
    • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
    GiG Classification
    • Support for addiction & substance abuse
    • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
    How it operates
    • Other charitable activities
    • Provides advocacy/advice/information
    • Provides human resources
    • Provides services
    Where it operates
    • Derbyshire,
    Who it helps
    • Other Defined Groups
    • 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
    National Lottery Community Fund£498,920
    Ministry of Defence£70,000
    Lloyds Bank Foundation£52,250
    DCMS£24,997
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to North Derbyshire Alcohol Advice Service
    £2,250 14/12/2022
    One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
    National Lottery Community Fund - STAND TO Derbyshire Veteran Community Support Services
    £498,920 27/08/2021
    The funding will be used to develop the groups alcohol abuse support service. It will increase the remit of provision so that veterans that are not reaching services to support with alcohol abuse. The group aims to attract referrals from a wider ....more
    Ministry of Defence - Covenant Fund
    £35,000 12/02/2021
    Address social isolation by targeting specific groups within the Armed Forces community who are traditionally harder to reach.
    Lloyds Bank Foundation - Recovery grant to North Derbyshire Alcohol Advice Service
    £50,000 03/12/2020
    24
    Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of North Derbyshire Alcohol Advice Service, awarded under the Foundation's Addiction and Dependency funding stream. Part of the Covid Recovery Fund to support charities to emerge from the ....more
    Ministry of Defence - £10M Veterans' Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund
    £35,000 13/11/2020
    The Positive Pathways programme funded projects that develop and run activities supporting the mental health and wellbeing of ex-Forces.
    DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
    £24,997 15/09/2020
    "The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
    National Lottery Community Fund - STAND TO
    £403,487 20/09/2017
    48
    This project will provide a dedicated alcohol abuse recovery programme for ex-service veterans, residing in Derbyshire, to develop coping strategies in order to reduce alcohol consumption and improve physical and psychological health and family ....more
    Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to North Derbyshire Alcohol Advice Service
    £68,206 21/07/2016
    36
    Meeting the increasing needs of people in Derbyshire and their families affected by alcohol misuse. The grant will fund the post of an alcohol Key Worker to support the more complex and longer term need of ex armed forces personnel.
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees (8)
    Current Trustees appointed
    Gender Split

    • ANDREW JAMES RAMRATTAN Appointed: 2019
    • FRANCES ANNE JAMES Appointed: 2019
    • JOHN ABDO ROWLAND YDLIBI Appointed: 2023
    • MR GEOFF LINK Appointed: 2015
    • MR TOM DAVIDSON Appointed: 2015
    • MRS GILL SULLIVAN Appointed: 2015
    • PAUL DAVID BEESON Appointed: 2017
    • SHAUN BROWN Appointed: 2022
    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in England & Wales on 09/12/2014, number: 1159537
    Gift Aid
    • NOT 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
    • 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
    8 returns made; AR22: 2 days late,
    Main office

    FIRST FLOOR
    DENTS CHAMBERS
    81 NEW SQUARE
    CHESTERFIELD
    DERBYSHIRE

    Objectives

    1.TO PROMOTE THE PREVENTION AND IDENTIFICATION OF ALCOHOL AND SUBSTANCE MISUSE PROBLEMS; 2. TO ASSIST THOSE PEOPLE IN DERBYSHIRE WITH THOSE AND RELATED PROBLEMS: 3. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION RELATING TO ALCOHOL AND SUBSTANCE MISUSE.

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving

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