SurvivorsUK

Registered charity 1077484 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SURVIVORS U.K.

webchat, counselling, group work, telephone inquiry line, information, advice and independent sexual violence adviser for those who identify as adult men who have been sexually assaulted or raped at any time in their lives.

Objects

The Charity’s objects (the “Objects”) are:(1) To provide protection of health and relief of sickness and distress to males who have suffered sexual abuse or rape and to promote any charitable purpose for the benefit of such individuals and their carers and families.(2) In furtherance of Subclause 3(1) above, the Charity may undertake the following activities:(a) provide centres for meetings and the giving of advice, information, training and education;(b) provide appropriate and considered counselling that adheres to the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy’s Framework for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy;(c) provide individual or group based support through a range appropriate of physical and digital based services;(d) advance public awareness about all matters relating to the sexual assault, sexual abuse or rape of men and boys(e) collect and make available information about all matters relating to the sexual assault, sexual abuse or rape of men and boys including issues relating to providing protection of health and relief of sickness and distress to these individuals who have suffered sexual assault, sexual abuse or rape and promoting charitable purposes for the benefit of such males and their carers and families; (f) undertake intersectional activity that helps to recognise and better understand that sexual assault, sexual abuse and rape can take part / be better understood within the context of wider patterns of abuse;(g) use a range of appropriate physical or digital communications to either; procure, write, print, publish, issue and circulate, materials intended to further or achieve the above objects.(3) In relation to Subclauses 3(1) and 3(2) above, although the Charity shall primarily support male individuals, the Charity may also undertake such actions, including the provision of appropriate services to support non-binary individuals where SurvivorsUK is the best fit for their needs.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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 · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a deficit of £25,208, reducing unrestricted reserves to £222,105, which is below the stated policy target of £250,000. Per the independent auditor's report, a material uncertainty exists regarding going concern due to a change in funding arrangements with MOPAC that results in revenue being received in arrears with minimal cash tolerance.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by SBM Associates Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → material uncertainty (FY2025).

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

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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

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

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (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: 3.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/10/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Simon David Gordon Noel Cornwellchair
• Matthew Foster
• Mx Samuel Peterson
• Nerissa Steel
• Rima Hawkins
• Tahreen Dewan

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 WE ARE SURVIVORS.

• WE ARE SURVIVORS income £2.1m
• SURVIVE (SUPPORT FOR SURVIVORS OF RAPE AND SEXUAL ABUSE) income £546k
• SURVIVORS WEST YORKSHIRE income £381k
• THE SURVIVORS' NETWORK LIMITED income £1.8m
• SUE LAMBERT TRUST income £725k
• RAPE AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE PROJECT income £1.9m

Side by side with its peers

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