BASICNEEDS

Registered charity 1079599 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To initiate programmes in developing countries, which actively involve mentally ill people and their carers and enable them to satisfy their basic needs and exercise their basic rights. In so doing, stimulate supporting activities by other organisations and influence public opinion.

Objects

THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE TRUST FUND UPON TRUST TO APPLY TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO ARE IN NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS AND IN PARTICULAR (WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY) PERSONS SUFFERING FROM MENTAL ILLNESS AND THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE WORLDWIDE.

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

Causes: Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Get email alerts

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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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2020 (received 30/03/2022, 334 days after the 30/04/2021 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2018)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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: 0.5% of total income.

Register events

• Transferred assets to another charity (19/05/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Operates in: China · Ghana · India · Kenya · Laos · Nepal · Sri Lanka · Tanzania · Uganda · United States

Income and spending