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CAMPAIGN AGAINST LIVING MISERABLY

Registered charity 1110621 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5027741 · Wikipedia · also known as C.A.L.M., CALM, THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST LIVING MISERABLY · also registered in Scotland as SC044347 (OSCR)

Preservation and protection and improvement of mental health and well-being amongst men in the UK, particularly focusing on the prevention of suicide by offering without limitation the use of support services, counselling, advice and/or information about the prevention of suicide, depression,and/or crisis management.

Objects

THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING AMONGST IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY YOUNG PERSONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM BY OFFERING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE USE OF SUPPORT SERVICES, COUNSELLING, ADVICE AND/OR INFORMATION ABOUT DEPRESSION AND/OR CRISIS MANAGEMENT IN WHATEVER FORM IS DEEMED MOST APPROPRIATE AT THAT TIME TO ENSURE THAT THE SERVICES ON OFFER ARE ACCESSIBLE TO YOUNG PEOPLE AND OTHERS, THROUGH BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH EDUCATION AND PUBLIC AWARENESS.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM

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

Registered contact address: Lambeth, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£8.7m
Latest spending
£9.2m
Registered
2005
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a small unrestricted fund deficit of £494,000 for the year ended 31 March 2025, an improvement on the previous year's deficit. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £4,072,000, representing seven months of budgeted expenditure, which is consistent with the charity's policy target of maintaining between six and twelve months of forecast expenditure.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: Public fundraising (44% of income)
“Public fundraising £3,833,000 (2024: £3,275,000), an increase of 17%.” — page 24
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Fundraising cost ratio: 29.0% of fundraised income, as disclosed
“Fundraising costs represent 29% (2024: 32%) of income.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: six to twelve months of forecast expenditure (reserves figure: £4.1m)
“The reserves policy states unrestricted and undesignated income should exceed six months but is not expected to exceed twelve months of forecast expenditure unless under specific circumstances for which the Executive decides additional reserves are necessary”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Marketing costs paid to adam&eveDDB, a company where Trustee Will Grundy serves as Chief Strategy Officer.
“In 2025, within Campaign Against Living Miserably Trading Ltd, there were: Marketing costs of £319,126 (2024: £6,460) for production from adam&eveDDB, of which Will Grundy (Trustee) is Chief Strategy Officer.” — page 56
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: Campaign Against Living Miserably Trading Ltd
“Campaign Against Living Miserably Trading Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of CALM. It undertakes commercial activities on behalf of the charity, including licensing, events and partnerships, with all distributable profits donated to CALM to support its work.” — page 9
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Royce Peeling Green Limited. Discloses 4 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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

  • Volunteers: 143
  • Employees paid over £60,000: 13 (£60,001–£70,000: 5; £70,001–£80,000: 2; £80,001–£90,000: 4; £100,001–£110,000: 1; £150,001–£200,000: 1)
  • Has a trading subsidiary

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

  • Volunteers: 122
  • Employees paid over £60,000: 14 (£60,001–£70,000: 3; £70,001–£80,000: 3; £80,001–£90,000: 4; £100,001–£110,000: 1; £130,001–£140,000: 1; £150,001–£200,000: 2)

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

  • Volunteers: 172
  • Employees paid over £60,000: 14 (£60,001–£70,000: 7; £70,001–£80,000: 3; £80,001–£90,000: 1; £110,001–£120,000: 1; £120,001–£130,000: 1; £150,001–£200,000: 1)

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

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

Corporate structure

CAMPAIGN AGAINST LIVING MISERABLY TRADING LTD — per its own Companies House accounts
  • Profit before tax: £-291k
  • {"amount_gbp": 353174, "description": "Amounts owed to group undertakings (creditors)"}

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably) (matched by registered charity number).

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.

Official officers record.

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

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

Total income
£8.7m
Total spending
£9.2m
Cost of raising funds
£2.5m
Reserves (reported)
£3.9m
Employees
54

Reported reserves equal ~5.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (97% 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: 28.8% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£8.7m£9.2m
31/03/2024£6.7m£8.4m
31/03/2023£7.6m£7.4m
31/03/2022£7.1m£6.3m
31/03/2021£6.4m£4.8m

Common questions

Is CAMPAIGN AGAINST LIVING MISERABLY financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a small unrestricted fund deficit of £494,000 for the year ended 31 March 2025, an improvement on the previous year's deficit. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £4,072,000, representing seven months of budgeted expenditure, which is consistent with the charity's policy target of maintaining between six and twelve months of forecast expenditure. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Royce Peeling Green Limited.

Who funds CAMPAIGN AGAINST LIVING MISERABLY?

Funders whose own accounts filings name CAMPAIGN AGAINST LIVING MISERABLY as a grant recipient include AKO FOUNDATION, THE BLOOM FOUNDATION, Flat Iron Trust, THE MAHORO CHARITABLE TRUST, ARDONAGH COMMUNITY TRUST.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
AKO FOUNDATIONFY2022£101kSuicide prevention
AKO FOUNDATIONFY2022£101kPreventing suicide and supporting those impacted by loss
AKO FOUNDATIONFY2022£101kSuicide prevention
THE BLOOM FOUNDATIONFY2023£80k
THE BLOOM FOUNDATIONFY2021£80kGrant
Flat Iron TrustFY2025£60k
THE BLOOM FOUNDATIONFY2022£53k
THE MAHORO CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2026£22k
ARDONAGH COMMUNITY TRUSTFY2024£17kMental health
HIGHWAY ONE TRUSTFY2024£15k
THE KRISTINA MARTIN CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2022£15k
HIGHWAY ONE TRUSTFY2025£15k
CBRE UK CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023Unverified read£13k
HIGHWAY ONE TRUSTFY2023£10k
Q CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£10k
KUSUMA TRUST UKFY2024£10kRandom Act of Kindness
THE KRISTINA MARTIN CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£10k
HIGHWAY ONE TRUSTFY2022£10k
HIGHWAY ONE TRUSTFY2021£10k
KUSUMA TRUST UKFY2023£10kRandom Act of Kindness
THE FIELDROSE CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2022Unverified read£10k
THE KRISTINA MARTIN CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024£9k
THE DAVID FAMILY FOUNDATIONFY2024£5k
SUSANNA PEAKE CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£5k
THE CHRISTOPHER AND HENRY OLDFIELD TRUSTFY2024£5k
G M C TRUSTFY2023£4k
Q CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024£4k
THE DE BRYE CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£3k
THE EDGAR E LAWLEY FOUNDATIONFY2025£2k
CBRE UK CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£2k
THE AIM FOUNDATIONFY2023£1kFamily Fund
THE DAVID FAMILY FOUNDATIONFY2023£1k
THE TORY FAMILY FOUNDATIONFY2023£1k
BGF FOUNDATIONFY2025£1kStaff Grants
SSP FOUNDATIONFY2021£1k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MICHAEL, AUGHTON LIVERPOOLFY2024£104
Flat Iron TrustFY2021£100
G M C TRUSTFY2024amount not stated
Evelyn Partners Charitable TrustFY2024amount not statedEmployee grant support programme
THE CHARLES LITTLEWOOD HILL TRUSTFY2024amount not statedWelfare
THE KRISTINA MARTIN CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025amount not stated

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
Community Foundation North East28/07/2022£5kGrant to Campaign Against Living Miserably
ARCADIA16/05/2021£500Towards the charity's work
UK government19/08/2020£100kCoronavirus Community Support Fund
City Bridge Foundation27/11/2014£100kGrant to Campaign Against Living Miserably
City Bridge Foundation20/10/2011£150kGrant to Campaign Against Living Miserably

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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
THE RANK FOUNDATION LIMITED1£75k
FISHMONGERS' COMPANY'S CHARITABLE TRUST1£60k
THE HUNCHMAN TRUST1£50k
THEIRWORLD1£40k
THE BRITFORD BRIDGE TRUST1£30k
THE NICK KILHAMS FOUNDATION1£30k
THE LENNOX HANNAY CHARITABLE TRUST1£23k
THE LAWSON TRUST CIO1£23k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GRASSROOTS SUICIDE PREVENTION.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
CAMPAIGN AGAINST LIVING MISERABLY£8.7m——unclear29.0%no doubt
GRASSROOTS SUICIDE PREVENTION FY2025£923k—0unclear—no doubt
LIV (UK) FY2026£229k—0unclear—no doubt
ESSENTIAL DRUG AND ALCOHOL SERVICES FY2025£344k—0unclear—no doubt
RIPPLE SUICIDE PREVENTION CHARITY FY2025£420k—0unclear—no doubt
SURVIVORS OF BEREAVEMENT BY SUICIDE FY2025£475k—0below—no doubt

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