Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 8

No PartB

Dynamic board: +3

Large volunteer base +5
Overall weighted support: +3

Overall GiG Score: 11

BE FREE CAMPAIGN

The Be Free Campaign is a mental health charity that aims to give people the tools they need to look after their mental health and wellbeing in order to live happier more fulfilling lives.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

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
31/12/23?	£96	£48	£48	n/a
20/09/22	£27	£16	£11	n/a
20/09/21	£2	£1	£1	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 4 years

www.befreecampaign.org

info@befreecampaign.org

07415382229

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

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

GiG Classification

Specialty hospitals (incl psychiatric)

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
People With Disabilities
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
John Moores Foundation - Grant to Be Free Campaign
£10,000	25/09/2023	Towards expanding our community-based mental health training workshops
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Mental Health Initiative
£10,000	02/12/2022	The funding will be used to support mental health with training to community and organisations groups across Liverpool with a focus on BAME organisations. It will develop its network of community associations to deliver preventative mental health ....more The funding will be used to support mental health with training to community and organisations groups across Liverpool with a focus on BAME organisations. It will develop its network of community associations to deliver preventative mental health training to their members. This includes groups such as Positive Futures Al-Ghazali Centre Granby Toxteth Development Trust and others. It includes workshops and then access to an app-based training session so that participants have access to wellbeing tools. It will work with their partners direct beneficiaries and if needed their staff on how to support beneficiaries.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

DR ARABINDA KUNDU Appointed: 2019

FINN THOMPSON Appointed: 2021

LOTTIE SEYMOUR Appointed: 2023

NIGEL ALLMAN Appointed: 2023

SHANTANU KUNDU (Chair) Appointed: 2019

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 29/05/2020, number: 1189704

Gift Aid

NOT 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
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
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

3 returns made; all on time

Main office

Be Free Campaign
54 St James Street
L1 0AB

Objectives

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF MENTAL HEALTH IN ENGLAND:A) PROVIDING PRACTICAL ADVICE, INFORMATION AND SUPPORT;B) ADVANCING THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN ALL AREAS RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH BYTRAINING COURSES AND EDUCATION.

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