Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 7
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 14 ?

SURREY DRUG AND ALCOHOL CARE LIMITED 

A 24 hour telephone helpline, 365 days per year, signposting and supporting drug and alcohol users, their significant others and those struggling with mild to moderate mental health problems.A Telephone Counselling Service providing psychosocial interventions by contracted BACP Registered Counsellors. Our outreach team provide educational talks to schools, colleges and other professional group
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
  • 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
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 11 years

https://surreydrugandalcoholcare.org.uk

Coordinator@SDAC-helpline.co.uk

08088025000

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Financial Data ?

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
31/03/23£209£206£2n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/22£225£265£-40n/an/an/an/an/a22
31/03/21*£341£275£67n/an/an/an/an/a27
31/03/20£180£157£23n/an/an/an/an/a41
31/03/19£146£167£-21n/an/an/an/an/a35
31/03/18£165£166£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17*£173£152£21£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16*£173£160£14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£114£117£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£135£112£23£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Surrey,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 20 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
Community Foundation for Surrey£98,000
Henry Smith Charity£40,000
National Lottery Community Fund£30,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£25,000
DCMS£19,847
CAF£10,000
Wates Foundation£7,000
Walton Charity£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Telephone Counselling sessions
£10,000 18/11/2022
The funding will be used to continue to deliver a telephone counselling service for people struggling with their drug alcohol addictions and/or mental health. The project aims to reduce anxiety and ....more
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Surrey Drug And Alcohol Care - 18/10/22
£2,500 11/11/2022
Core Funding
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Surrey Drug & Alcohol Care Ltd
£3,221 22/10/2022
We wish to offer people with drug/alcohol addictions an intensive Boot Camp programme of telephone counselling to help them work towards reducing or eliminating the substances from their lives.
Community Foundation for Surrey - Funding towards core costs
£20,000 04/10/2021
Funding towards the core costs of a charity supporting people with drug and alcohol misuse/addiction.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Surrey Drug and Alcohol Care
£20,000 23/09/2021
24
towards two years' running costs of a free telephone counselling service for people affected by their own, or somebody else's issues with drugs and/or alcohol, in Surrey.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 20/08/2021
Telephone Counselling Service for people affected by their own or a loved one's drug and/or alcohol use
Walton Charity - Telephone Counselling Service
£5,000 01/06/2021
Telephone counselling for Elmbridge residents
Wates Foundation - SDAC Boot Camp telephone counselling - RWF 2021
£7,000 20/05/2021
Boot Camp telephone counselling programme for people affected by substance misuse
National Lottery Community Fund - Boot Camp counselling programme
£10,000 25/03/2021
9
The funding will be used to provide adapted counselling sessions to help people address their substance misuse. The project aims to provide the infrastructure to support recovery and increase ....more
Community Foundation for Surrey - Telephone Counselling Service
£25,000 23/03/2021
Funding toward a telephone counselling service by an organisation that offers support for people trying to recover from drug and/or alcohol dependency.
Community Foundation for Surrey - COVID19 - Advice and support
£12,000 28/09/2020
11
Funding for a part-time administrator, and additional counselling sessions, to increase the capacity of a charity supporting people with addictions and mental health conditions during the Coronavirus ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£9,847 28/09/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000 29/07/2020
"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 ....more
Community Foundation for Surrey - SDAC Telephone Counselling Service
£10,000 14/07/2020
11
Funding towards a Telephone Counselling Service to support people with drug and alcohol addictions
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award - COVID19 response
£10,000 05/06/2020
Telephone Counselling Service for people affected by their own or another's drug/alcohol misuse
CAF - Grant to Surrey Drug and Alcohol Care Ltd
£10,000 02/06/2020
3
Grant to Surrey Drug and Alcohol Care Ltd to support the organisation through COVID19
Community Foundation for Surrey - Covid 19 Response - Mental wellbeing
£5,000 01/04/2020
Funding towards Telephone Counselling Service for people suffering from mental-ill health during the Covid-19 outbreak
Community Foundation for Surrey - Running costs for a free telephone counselling service.
£20,000 10/01/2020
23
Essential running costs for a free telephone counselling service for people affected by problems with drugs of alcohol
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Surrey Drug and Alcohol Care
£20,000 10/12/2019
24
towards two years' running costs of a free telephone counselling service for people affected by their own, or somebody else's problems, with drugs and/or alcohol, in Surrey
National Lottery Community Fund - Telephone Counselling Service
£10,000 01/08/2019
12
The funding will be used to continue to provide a telephone counselling service. The project aims to provide support and confidential advice to individuals and their families who suffer with ....more
Community Foundation for Surrey - Telephone Counselling Service
£6,000 28/06/2019
11
Ongoing costs of providing the Telephone Counselling service.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 05/12/2018
Telephone Counselling Service for people affected by their own or another's drug/alcohol misuse.
Wates Family Enterprise Trust - Surrey Drug & Alcohol Care Ltd
£10,000 22/11/2018
Telephone Counselling Service offering Surrey residents with substance misuse dependencies and their families/partners a 12-session programme of counselling to address their substance misuse and ....more
Community Foundation for Surrey - SDAC Telephone Counselling Service
£16,000 13/06/2018
11
SDAC Telephone Counselling Service
National Lottery Community Fund - Telephone counselling service
£10,000 07/06/2018
12
The funding will be used to deliver a telephone counselling service. The project aims to provide support and advice to people and their families who suffer with substance misuse and dependencies .
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How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 29-70
  • DAVID KERR Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Associate Director
  • GREG JOHN POULTER Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Freelance Trainer/Expert Witness Detru
  • KAY RIVERS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Counsellor
  • MICHAEL TASKER Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Manufacturing Production Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 03/04/2013, number: 1151494
  • Registered at Companies House on 27/12/2012, number: 08341899
Gift Aid
  • 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
  • Investment
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
10 returns made; AR21: 56 days late, AR17: 1 days late, AR16: 7 days late,
Main office

Guildford Borough Council
Millmead House
Millmead
Guildford
Surrey
GU2 4BB

Objectives

4 THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS (‘OBJECTS’) ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING: TO RELIEVE SICKNESS PARTICULARLY AMONGST PERSONS SUFFERING FROM ADDICTION TO DRUGS AND ALCOHOL AND FROM MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES. IN FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE OBJECT BUT NOT FURTHER OR OTHERWISE THE CHARITY THROUGH ITS COMMITTEE SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING POWERS: (1) TO PROVIDE ADVICE AND GUIDANCE TO SUBSTANCE MISUSERS AND THEIR RELATIVES AND TO THOSE CLOSELY CONCERNED WITH SUBSTANCE MISUSERS. (2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE HARMFUL EFFECTS OF DRUGS AND ALCOHOL AMONGST YOUNG STUDENTS ENGAGED IN FULL TIME EDUCATION IN SURREY AND TO PROVIDE INFORMATION ON HOW TO ENGAGE WITH LOCAL NHS SERVICES. (3) TO PROVIDE ADVICE AND GUIDANCE TO THOSE SUFFERING FROM MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES AND THOSE CLOSELY AFFECTED BY THEM. (4) TO PROVIDE ADVICE AND GUIDANCE FOR INTERESTED PROFESSIONALS. (5) TO COLLECT AND DISSEMINATE INFORMATION ON ALL MATTERS AFFECTING SUBSTANCE MISUSE BY IDENTIFYING THOSE MOST VULNERABLE. (6) TO COLLECT AND DISSEMINATE INFORMATION ON ALL MATTERS AFFECTING PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES. (7) TO RAISE FUNDS AND TO INVITE AND RECEIVE CONTRIBUTIONS FROM ANY PERSON OR PERSONS WHATSOEVER, BY WAY OF SUBSCRIPTION, DONATION AND OTHERWISE PROVIDED THAT THE CHARITY SHALL NOT UNDERTAKE ANY PERMANENT TRADING ACTIVITIES IN RAISING FUNDS FOR ITS CHARITABLE OBJECTS. (8) TO DO ALL SUCH OTHER LAWFUL THINGS AS SHALL FURTHER THE OBJECTIVES OF THE CHARITY.

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