Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: -3

Support Score: 2

Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

All male board: -3

Grant maker support: +2

Overall GiG Score: -6

REASON

Reason offers confidential counselling support to individuals struggling with substance misuse, addictive behaviour and/or mental health issues.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from a grant maker recently

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
Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

Established: 9 years

www.reason-online.co.uk

maike@reason-online.co.uk

07379209415

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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	£10	£28	£-18	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/22	£13	£32	£-19	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/21	£12	£31	£-18	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/20	£40	£30	£10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/19	£39	£24	£15	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/18	£34	£15	£19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	£7	£15	£-8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	£28	£2	£25	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

What it does

Education/Training
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England,

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 Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£4,000	29/11/2022	towards core costs over the next 12 months
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Reason
£4,195	19/11/2018	We want to provide one to one support for people wishing to face their addictions who cannot afford to contribute to their sessions.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

DR FERGUS DANIEL LAW FRCPSYCH Appointed: 2015

MARTIN HAWKINS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Accountant, Other trusteeship: LIVING WORD CHRISTIAN CENTRE,

SAMUEL LAITE (Chair) Appointed: 2015

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 11/03/2015, number: 1160837

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
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
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Filing Record

8 returns made; all on time

Main office

THE FORUM
1A FORUM BUILDINGS
BATH
BA1 1UG

Objectives

1. THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PROMOTION OF HEALTH AMONG THOSE AFFECTED BY GAMBLING, ALCOHOL OTHER SUBSTANCES, OR ADDICTIVE BEHAVIOURS, BY THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION, ADVICE, COUNSELLING AND ADVOCACY IN BATH AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS.2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC OF THE EFFECTS OF GAMBLING, ALCOHOL, OTHER SUBSTANCES AND ADDICTIVE BEHAVIOURS.

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