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HARM REDUCTION INTERNATIONAL

Registered charity 1117375 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as IHRA, INTERNATIONAL HARM REDUCTION ASSOCIATION

TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY BY: (A) UNDERTAKING RESEARCH INTO THE CAUSES OF DRUG USE AND ASSOCIATED PROBLEMS, (PARTICULARLY RELATING TO ILLICIT DRUGS AND ALCOHOL); (B) DEVELOPING POLICIES AND STRATEGIES TO REDUCE LEVELS OF HARM ASSOCIATED WITH DRUG USE; (C) ADVANCING THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND ORGANISATIONS IN POLICIES AND STRATEGIES

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Latest income
£1.3m
Latest spending
£1.1m
Registered
2006
Accounts read
FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held £355,302 in free reserves at the end of the reporting period, which exceeds the trustees' target of three months' operating costs (£195,000). The trustees and auditors confirmed that the charity can continue as a going concern, citing sufficient budgeted income and expenditure to meet debts as they fall due over the coming 12-24 months.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three months' operating costs (held: £355k)
“This strengthens HRI’s work towards its goal of holding three months’ operating costs in reserve (a goal which is reviewed annually by the trustees).” — page 10
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

Electoral Commission register entries

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Total income
£1.3m
Total spending
£1.1m
Reserves (reported)
£195k
Employees
12

Reported reserves equal ~2.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2024£1.3m£1.1m
31/12/2023£2.0m£1.9m
31/12/2022£1.4m£1.1m
31/12/2021£823k£850k
31/12/2020£898k£815k

Common questions

Is HARM REDUCTION INTERNATIONAL financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the charity held £355,302 in free reserves at the end of the reporting period, which exceeds the trustees' target of three months' operating costs (£195,000). The trustees and auditors confirmed that the charity can continue as a going concern, citing sufficient budgeted income and expenditure to meet debts as they fall due over the coming 12-24 months. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by Sayer Vincent LLP.

Who funds HARM REDUCTION INTERNATIONAL?

Funders whose own accounts filings name HARM REDUCTION INTERNATIONAL as a grant recipient include THE ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATIONFY2023£715kPeople who use drugs
THE ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATIONFY2023£336kPeople who use drugs
THE ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATIONFY2022£336kPWUD

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
JOHN ELLERMAN FOUNDATION1£120k
THE ORR MACKINTOSH FOUNDATION LIMITED1£55k
THE NISBET TRUST1£31k
THE A B CHARITABLE TRUST1£20k
BOLTON COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY SERVICES1£18k
THE GLASS-HOUSE TRUST1£17k
ALLIANCE HOUSE FOUNDATION1£15k
LANGDALE TRUST1£12k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRISTOL DRUGS PROJECT LIMITED.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
HARM REDUCTION INTERNATIONAL£1.3m——unclear—no doubt
BRISTOL DRUGS PROJECT LIMITED FY2025£5.7m£60,001 - £70,0002unclear—no doubt
TRANSFORM DRUG POLICY FOUNDATION FY2025£272kUnder £60,0000unclear—no doubt
EARLY BREAK FY2025£5.2m£80,001 - £90,0004within—no doubt
BAROD PROJECT FY2025£9.7m——unclear—no doubt
ALCOHOL RESEARCH UK FY2025£1.9m——unclear—no doubt

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