Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 10

Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3

Large volunteers +5
Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 11

ACTION FOR HAPPINESS

Action for Happiness is a charity which promotes mental health and wellbeing, through the provision of information, evidence-based resources, public events, educational services, training and community activities.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
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:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year

Established: 7 years

http://www.actionforhappiness.org/

info@actionforhappiness.org

020 3287 1354

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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
31/12/22	£348	£467	£-119	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	500
31/12/21	£931	£713	£217	£0	£743	£722	12.1	4	500
31/12/20	£525	£359	£166	£0	£526	£526	17.6	2	500
31/12/19	£426	£342	£84	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	300
31/12/18	£366	£351	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	250
31/12/17	£264	£2	£261	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 27%
Highest pay band: £100,000-£110,000

Listed activities

Education/Training
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
500 volunteers

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
The Segelman Trust - Grant to Action for Happiness
£100,000	04/10/2022	For capacity building
The Segelman Trust - Grant to Action for Happiness
£60,000	16/06/2020 36	For capacity building
The Aim Foundation - Grant to Action for Happiness
£10,000	24/04/2019 12	A one-off grant given to develop their website, as part of their communication campaign, to encourage people to take action to help and reduce the suffering of people with mentla health problems.
The Segelman Trust - Grant to Action for Happiness
£40,000	13/11/2018 18	Capacity building to support growth
The Aim Foundation - Grant to Action for Happiness
£45,000	14/06/2018 36	A new three-year commitment of £15,000 was made to this organisation that helps people take action to reduce the number of people suffering with mental health problems, and increase the number of ....more A new three-year commitment of £15,000 was made to this organisation that helps people take action to reduce the number of people suffering with mental health problems, and increase the number of people feeling good, functioning well and helping others. Our grant is for their communication campaign.
The Segelman Trust - Grant to Action for Happiness
£30,000	23/01/2017 36	To support the development and growth of the community-based 'Exploring what Matters' course
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Action for Happiness
£40,900	09/05/2012	Towards a pilot project that aims to inspire and enable people to take practical action to increase their sense of wellbeing and contribute to that of others.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 42-89

JULIE SANDRA BENTLEY Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Chief Executive

LORD PETER RICHARD GRENVILLE LAYARD (Chair) Appointed: 2017, Occupation: None

MICHIEL NOLET Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Entrepreneur

RADHA MODGIL Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Medical Doctor

VANESSA ANN KING Appointed: 2017, Occupation: None

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 16/10/2017, number: 1175160
Registered at Companies House on 12/04/2017, number: 10722435

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

6 returns made; all on time

Main office

WE Work
3 Waterhouse Square
138-142 Holborn
LONDON
EC1N 2SW

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY, WHICH ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH, WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FORGOING, TO PROMOTE MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING AND TO ASSIST IN THE PREVENTION, TREATMENT AND CARE AND EDUCATION OF PERSONS CURRENTLY OR POTENTIALLY AT RISK OF SUFFERING FROM, MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES OR ANY ILLNESS OR SOCIAL ISOLATION RELATING TO SUCH CONDITIONS AND TO EDUCATE OTHERS IN RESPECT OF SUCH ISSUES;2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN SUBJECTS RELEVANT TO MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING RELATED ISSUES.3) ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE WHICH SHALL BE SELECTED BY THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME.

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