Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 4
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

THE RECOVERY FOUNDATION

Run programs/courses that support people who are struggling with their mental health, with the emphasis on "Hope" in recovery
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending since inception
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit
Volun-
teers
31/03/24£166£155£11n/a
31/03/23£83£87£-4n/a
31/03/22?£46£29£17n/a
30/06/21£8£3£5n/a
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 5 years

www.therecoveryfoundation.org.uk

info@therecoveryfoundation.org.uk

07969564893

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
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£30,170
Birmingham City Council£10,000
DCMS£5,169
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund£2,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Drop-in Creative Activities for people recovering from mental illness
£10,000 08/09/2023
This funding will be used to support people with mental health recovery from mental illness. It will offer drop-in creative mental health sessions at a community venue in Erdington. The project aims to provide an accessible and supportive space ....more
Birmingham City Council - The Recovery Foundation
£10,000 25/11/2022
To deliver 10 4week courses 2 courses specific for LGBTQ+ and Men. the course is to support participants to process tjeir experience learn to adopt and practically deal with their Mental Health, access peer support and learn how to find, grow and ....more
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to The Recovery Foundation
£2,500 13/09/2022
Small Grant Unrestricted Core Costs
National Lottery Community Fund - PLATINUM JUBILEE CELEBRATION - Art in Nature
£7,710 01/04/2022
The funding will be used to celebrate the Queens Jubilee with a community event followed by a range of creative and social activities. The project aims to bring people together to improve wellbeing mental health and to take part in positive social ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Arts in Parks - Mental Health Recovery
£2,470 16/08/2021
This funding will be used to support people with experience of mental health problems to reduce isolation and impact of lockdowns through therapeutic art sessions within parks and green spaces. The sessions will use Arts Therapy to better establish ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Hope in Recovery – Mental Health Support
£9,990 14/05/2021
The funding will be used to deliver resilience courses support groups and care packages for people living with poo mental health. The project aims to improve their wellbeing long term develop coping strategies and build positive relationships.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£5,169 18/09/2020
"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
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • ANNA BECK Appointed: 2020
  • DR MARK BERNARD Appointed: 2023
  • JASON PAUL Appointed: 2023
  • MARK HARVEY (Chair) Appointed: 2024
  • SOPHIE WEBBER-ROSE Appointed: 2022
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 21/02/2020, number: 1188110
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
  • 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
4 returns made; all on time
Main office

315 Court Lane
Erdington
BIRMINGHAM
B23 5JX

Objectives

TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:- • WORKING WITH THOSE WITH MENTAL HEALTH CONDITIONS, FOCUSING ON SELF-HELP AND SHARED EXPERIENCES IN ORDER TO PROMOTE RECOVERY;• FOR THOSE WHO ARE NOT MENTALLY ILL, WORKING TO ENCOURAGE SELF-AWARENESS, RESILIENCE, BUILDING, COPING SKILLS FOR TIMES OF CRISIS, AND OTHER SELF-RELEVANT DEVELOPMENT; AND • ADVANCING EDUCATION IN MENTAL HEALTH RECOVERY, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY FOCUSSING ON PEER SUPPORTED RECOVERY AND SELF-DEVELOPMENT.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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