ESCAPE FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP

Registered charity 1063500 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as E.S.C.A.P.E., ESCAPE Family Support Ltd

24/7 Helpline, Information, Advice, 1-1 Support, Counselling, Signposting, Advocacy, Support Groups, Art Sessions, Respite, Educational Training, Physical Activities, Community Reinforcement Approach and Family Training (CRAFT) for Carers of Substance Users; Adverse Childhood Experience's (ACE's) therapeutic support for adults and young people; Health & Wellbeing Sessions and Parenting Courses.

Objects

1 TO PROVIDE SUPPORT, COUNSELLING AND MEDIATION TO RELIEVE THE POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS OF DRUG, ALCOHOL AND SOLVENT USERS AND THEIR FAMILIES WHO ARE OR HAVE BEEN SUFFERING FROM THE MISUSE OF SUBSTANCES BEING ANY SUBSTANCE WHICH IS MISUSED TO THE DETRIMENT OF THE HEALTH OF THE INDIVIDUAL IN THE COMMUNITY OF NORTHUMBERLAND AND ELSEWHERE AS THE ASSOCIATION MAY DETERMINE; 2 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF THE COMMUNITY OF NORTHUMBERLAND AND ELSEWHERE AS THE ASSOCIATION MAY DETERMINE IN THE PROBLEMS RESULTING FROM NON-MEDICAL USE AND ABUSE OF DRUGS AND ASSOCIATED PROBLEMS; AND3 TO PROVIDE SUPPORT, COUNSELLING, MEDIATION AND ACCOMMODATION TO RELIEVE THE POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS OF VULNERABLE ADULTS IN THE COMMUNITY OF NORTHUMBERLAND AND ELSEWHERE AS THE ASSOCIATION MAY DETERMINE

Area of benefit: NORTHUMBERLAND AND ELSEWHERE AS THE ASSOCIATION MAY DETERMINE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Northumberland, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £35,412 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income rising to £390,329 from £274,240 in the previous year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted cash reserves held were £160,907, which the charity considers sufficient to cover its stated reserves policy target of four months of operating costs. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alice Parkchair
• Holly Eloise Scarfe
• JANET MURPHY
• Jacqueline Loraine Mary Axelby
• Laura Elizabeth Keen
• Stephen James Murphy
• Thomas Gibson O'Fee

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Northumberland

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ESCAPE COMMUNITY ART IN ACTION.

• ESCAPE COMMUNITY ART IN ACTION income £309k
• SANCTUARY FAMILY SUPPORT income £175k
• ESCAPE INTERVENTION SERVICES LTD income £225k
• IMPACT FAMILY CENTRE income £28k
• ESCAPELINE income £518k
• FOUNDATIONS: SUPPORTING FAMILIES income £336k

Side by side with its peers

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