DEPRESSION ALLIANCE

Registered charity 1096741 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Depression Alliance is the leading UK charity for people affected by depression: ?We bring people together to make them happier?Our services are not medical, but work alongside health services: Friends in Need, a community network for anyone with depression; wellbeing support; relevant good quality information; supporting those affected by depression to make positive use of their experience.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY ARE:- (A) TO RELIEVE AND PREVENT AND ASSIST IN THE RELIEF AND PREVENTION OF CONDITIONS OF DEPRESSION AND OTHER RELATED CONDITIONS, IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF MUTUAL SUPPORT AND FELLOWSHIP FOR PEOPLE AFFECTED BY DEPRESSION (B) TO PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO THE CAUSES AND PREVENTION OF DEPRESSION AND THE DISSEMINATION OF THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH

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: General Charitable Purposes · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · 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.

• Paying staff
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2016)

Reported reserves equal ~0.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (63% 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: 11.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Transferred assets to another charity (26/05/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending