DERBYSHIRE LGBT+ LTD

Registered charity 1088868 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DERBY FRIEND, DERBYSHIRE FRIEND, DERBYSHIRE LGB SWITCHBOARD, PAVILION LGB CENTRE, SHAG PROJECT

Derbyshire LGBT improves the health & wellbeing of individuals to enable them to achieve their full potential irrespective of their Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity. We provide support & information to individuals regarding sexual orientation and/or gender identity & deliver health promotion & health education services to LGBT people to improve their physical, mental & emotional health.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL CRISES SUFFERED BY PERSONS WHO ARE GAY, LESBIAN, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER OR IN DOUBT ABOUT THEIR SEXUAL IDENTITY OR BY THOSE WHO MAY BE AFFECTED BY OR INVOLVED WITH SUCH PERSONS. IN PARTICULAR BY GIVING OF ADVICE, COUNSEL AND HELP FROM MEMBERS OF THE COMPANY WORKING UNDER DIRECTION WHO ARE SELECTED AND PREPARED TO GIVE SUCH ADVICE, COUNSEL AND HELP

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Derby, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing of resources of £29,519 for the year, resulting in total funds decreasing from £118,256 to £88,737. The trustees note that they are working towards rebuilding reserves over the next two years to sustain the organisation should the funding climate become more difficult. Despite shrinking funding opportunities, the charity continued to generate income and secure vital support for its work.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Derbyshire LGBT+ (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• James Mark Rand
• Martin David Carter
• Michelle Frances Butler
• REV David William Ashton

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

Operates in: Derby City · Derbyshire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

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

• LANCASHIRE LGBT income £118k
• LEICESTER LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER CENTRE income £209k
• BIRMINGHAM LGBT income £825k
• DERBYSHIRE POSITIVE SUPPORT income £153k
• THE DERBYSHIRE FEDERATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH income £988k
• DERBYSHIRE VOLUNTARY ACTION income £691k

Side by side with its peers

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