Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 4
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Overall weighted support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 8 ?

CONTROLLING CHEMSEX

Promote and protect the health of individualssuffering from involvement in Chemsex behaviours with a particular focus on the LGBTQ community by:- Providing advice, information and support to them and others affected by their involvement;- Providing psychosexual therapy;- Raising awareness in society of the issues arising from Chemsex.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently and there are significant future grants due to be received

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why are there only 4 trustees?

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit
Volun-
teers
28/02/23£85£79£6n/a
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 3 years

www.controllingchemsex.com/

info@controllingchemsex.com

+447718618671

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 03/03/2023
ReferNow
Tudor Trust - Grant to Controlling Chemsex CIO
£70,000 06/09/2021
36
over three years towards salaries and associated costs to support the development of new areas of work, including a webchat service, for a London-based organisation supporting LGBTQ+ people who are struggling with chemsex addiction

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed

  • CARMI KORINE Appointed: 2024
  • DR EMILIO ARBE-HERRERO Appointed: 2021
  • JOHN EDWARD SADLER Appointed: 2021
  • PHILIP DAVID MARK HURD Appointed: 2021
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 13/12/2021, number: 1197081
Gift Aid
  • 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
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds 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
1 returns made; all on time
Main office

GEMMA HOUSE
39 LILESTONE STREET
LONDON
NW8 8SS

Objectives

THE OBJECTS FOR THE CIO ARE FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH OF INDIVIDUALS SUFFERING FROM INVOLVEMENT IN CHEMSEX BEHAVIOURS WITH A PARTICULAR FOCUS ON THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY BY:-PROVIDING ADVICE, INFORMATION AND SUPPORT TO THEM AND OTHERS AFFECTED BY THEIR INVOLVEMENT;- PROVIDING PSYCHOSEXUAL THERAPY;- RAISING AWARENESS IN SOCIETY OF THE ISSUES ARISING FROM CHEMSEX.IN THESE OBJECTS “CHEMSEX” IS THE USE OF DRUGS BEFORE OR DURING PLANNED SEXUAL ACTIVITY TO SUSTAIN, ENHANCE, DISINHIBIT OR FACILITATE THE EXPERIENCE. CHEMSEX COMMONLY INVOLVES CRYSTAL METHAMPHETAMINE, GHB/GBL AND MEPHEDRONE, AND SOMETIMES INJECTING THESE DRUGS (ALSO KNOWN AS SLAMMING).

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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