Overall Score: 6 based on 8 data points

Finance: 5

Governance: -3

Support: 4

(no PartB)
Future income +5,

All male board: -3,

Supporters: +4

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:

The Board is completely male

Financial issues to consider:

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

Established: 2 years

www.controllingchemsex.com/

info@controllingchemsex.com

+447718618671

Charity Commission for England and Wales

This Charity did not raise funds from the public in its latest financial period

Financial Data ?

Y/E		Income	Spending	Surplus/ Deficit	Volun- teers
28/02/23		£84,952	£78,737	£6,215	10

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What it does

Disability
General Charitable Purposes
Other Charitable Purposes
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

Who works here?

10 volunteers

Who it helps

Other Defined Groups
The General Public/Mankind

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

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 Tudor Trust
£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 ....more 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

Gender Split

DARREN JOHN IRVINE-DUFFY
Appointed: 2023
Other trusteeship: NORTHUMBERLAND PRIDE,

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
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

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).

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