EARLY BREAK

Registered charity 1072052 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide the relief of sickness and the preservation of good health of young people who use legal and illegal drugs, by the provision of counselling, support and treatment services for such persons and their families. To advance research into the use of drugs and disseminate the results in the areas of Bury, Rochdale and East Lancashire.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased to £1,494,234 and free reserves stood at £865,183, representing approximately two months of annual expenditure. The charity reported an increase in charitable expenditure of £719,678 against an income increase of £280,372, resulting in a net movement in funds of £71,911. The trustees confirmed 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 audited by Barlow Andrews LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £70,001 - £80,000 (FY2024) to £80,001 - £90,000 (FY2025).
• Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 4 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03320039

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Early Break (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Vicky Maloney — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Luke Bidwell — Operations Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• LEE, Ling Keim — director, appointed 12/03/2025on trustee list
• ALLEN, Janice Lesley — director, appointed 17/01/2023on trustee list
• MILLINGTON, Howard — director, appointed 19/10/2020not on trustee list
• SELL, Louise Ann, Dr — director, appointed 21/01/2020on trustee list
• HILL, Tracy Louise Julie — director, appointed 27/03/2019on trustee list
• MARLEY, Stephen — director, appointed 22/05/2013on trustee list
• EDGAR, Lydia Therese — director, appointed 22/05/2013on trustee list
• MALONEY, Victoria Jane — secretary, appointed 01/04/2013

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £208k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Early Break — Deregistered, 2 registered locations.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Louise Sell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Janice Allen
• LYDIA THERESE EDGAR
• Ling Lee
• STEPHEN RONALD WILLIAM MARLEY
• Tracy Hill

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

Operates in: Bolton · Bury · Lancashire · Rochdale

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BREAKEVEN.

• BREAKEVEN income £2.2m
• NARCONON TRUST income £179k
• HARM REDUCTION INTERNATIONAL income £1.3m
• THE ALCOHOL AND DRUG SERVICE income £5.4m
• THE BRITISH FRIENDS OF ZICHRON MENACHEM income £152k
• THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF ADDICTION income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.