Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 9

Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

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

Grant maker support: +9

Overall GiG Score: 10

TRANSFORM DRUG POLICY FOUNDATION

Carrying out research, policy analysis and innovative policy development. Challenging government to demonstrate ratonal, fact based evidence to support its policies and expenditure. Promoting alternative, evidence based policies to parliamentarians, government and government agencies. advising NGOs whose work is affected by drugs.Providing an informe clear voice on international and UK drug policy

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Positives:

Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
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 and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

Established: 20 years

www.transformdrugs.org

info@transformdrugs.org

01174420880

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Income & Spending ?

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Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/23		£363	£414	£-51	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/03/22		£459	£373	£86	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/03/21		£379	£395	£-16	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	5
31/03/20		£319	£399	£-80	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	5
31/03/19		£566	£340	£226	£12	£445	£342	12.1	8	12
31/03/18		£288	£305	£-17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£312	£293	£19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£314	£312	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£249	£285	£-36	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£250	£250	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13	*	£247	£275	£-28	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£242	£244	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£230	£230	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£224	£229	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£133	£171	£-39	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£92	£127	£-35	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07		£100	£111	£-11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06		£76	£97	£-21	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05		£89	£94	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 22%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000

Listed activities

Other Charitable Purposes

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
10 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.

Major supporters in last 5 years

Esmee Fairbairn	£230,000
Tudor Trust	£152,000
John Ellerman Foundation	£120,000
Trust for London	£82,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Transform Drug Policy Foundation
£5,000	06/02/2023	Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Trust for London - Transform Drug Policy Foundation
£2,000	29/09/2022	This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-06.10.2020-8798
John Ellerman Foundation - Core costs for our Anyone's Child: Families for Safer Drug Control campaign
£120,000	27/05/2021 36	Towards the costs of their campaign "Anyone's Child: Families for Safer Drug Control" to allow families whose lives have been devastated by current drug laws to campaign for legal control ....more Towards the costs of their campaign "Anyone's Child: Families for Safer Drug Control" to allow families whose lives have been devastated by current drug laws to campaign for legal control and regulation of the drug market in order to save lives and better protect young people.
Trust for London - Transform Drug Policy Foundation
£80,000	24/02/2021	The funding is for forming an alliance between Transform and Blaksox. The goal is to develop a black-led resource that ensures voices of African and Caribbean Heritage (ACH) communities are heard in ....more The funding is for forming an alliance between Transform and Blaksox. The goal is to develop a black-led resource that ensures voices of African and Caribbean Heritage (ACH) communities are heard in the drug policy debate.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Transform Drug Policy Foundation
£2,000	05/02/2021	as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
Tudor Trust - Grant to Transform Drug Policy Foundation
£150,000	22/10/2020 36	over three years as continuation funding towards the Anyone's Child project, which involves families in publicising the damaging effects of punitive drugs policies
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Transform Drug Policy Foundation
£25,000	19/05/2020 6	towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Transform Drug Policy Foundation
£200,000	18/06/2019 48	Towards core costs to support changes to drug policy in the UK.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Transform Drug Policy Foundation
£102,000	28/01/2019 24	over two years as continuation funding for the Anyone's Child project to publicise the effects on UK families of punitive drugs policies
John Ellerman Foundation - Core costs
£120,000	25/01/2018 36	Towards the core costs of developing and supporting the "Anyone's Child" network, which supports and gives a voice to families who have lost a child to drugs
Tudor Trust - Grant to Transform Drug Policy Foundation
£80,000	16/11/2016 24	over two years towards the Anyone's Child project to publicise the effects on UK families of punitive drugs policies
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Transform Drug Policy Foundation
£200,000	23/06/2015 48	Towards core costs of an organisation that campaigns for new approaches to the regulation of drugs.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Transform Drug Policy Foundation
£200,000	15/07/2010 48	Towards Unrestricted core costs Towards the core costs of an organisation that campaigns for different approaches to the control and licensing of drugs.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 26-66

JASON KEW Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Senior Innovative Practice Officer

KATRINA FFRENCH Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director

MX JAY JACKSON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Parliamentary Campaigner

NINA ANN EDMONDS Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Finance Director

ROWAN MILLER Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Fund Manager

SHAHANARA ISLAM Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Civil Servant

VICKY UNWIN (Chair) Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Writer

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 04/11/2003, number: 1100518
Registered at Companies House on 11/08/2003, number: 04862177

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
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Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
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Volunteer management

Filing Record

19 returns made; AR13: 0 days late,

Main office

THE STATION
SILVER STREET
BRISTOL
BS1 2AG

Objectives

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND ORGANISATIONS IN DRUG POLICY BY RESEARCH AND DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION WITH A VIEW TO INCREASING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SUCH POLICY AND TO PRESERVE AND SAFEGUARD THE INTERESTS OF THE PUBLIC.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE WORLDWIDE

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