ALCOHOL RESEARCH UK

Registered charity 1140287 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q30296682 · also known as ALCOHOL CHANGE UK, ALCOHOL CONCERN

We work to significantly reduce alcohol harm in the UK by: funding, commissioning and sharing research; working to ensure more and better support and treatment; encouraging better policy and regulation; shifting drinking cultures through our campaigns; and working to change drinking behaviours by providing advice and information.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE THE REDUCTION OF ALCOHOL-RELATED HARM TO INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES.

Area of benefit: ENGLAND AND WALES

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: Islington, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a significant operating deficit of £1.587m in 2024-25, driven by a £1.3m increase in expenditure to £3.535m which outpaced income growth. To service this deficit, the charity sold investment units, causing its free reserves to fall significantly from £9.9m to £7.7m, though the trustees remain satisfied that the charity is a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Haines Watts Swindon 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.

• 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• 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

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 02/02/2023, 2 days after the 31/01/2023 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07462605

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Alcohol Change UK (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.

• REEVES, Stuart William, Mr. — director, appointed 06/07/2026on trustee list
• RAI, Taranpreet Singh, Dr — director, appointed 06/07/2026on trustee list
• BAKER, Katharine Mary — director, appointed 06/07/2026on trustee list
• VILLANUEVA IGLESIAS, Elizabeth — director, appointed 06/07/2026not on trustee list
• GREENWOOD, Emma Louise — director, appointed 08/07/2024on trustee list
• O'CONNOR, Herdeep — director, appointed 30/10/2023on trustee list
• CHANG, Helen Huong — director, appointed 30/10/2023on trustee list
• DHADWAL, Raveena — director, appointed 30/10/2023on trustee list
• GRUMMETT, Hannah Dorothea — director, appointed 03/10/2022on trustee list
• URWIN, Michael Peter — director, appointed 03/10/2022on trustee list
• BELLAMY, Michael Charles — director, appointed 18/03/2019on trustee list
• PIPER, Richard — secretary, appointed 04/09/2017

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~26.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (47% 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: 49.3% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/10/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Michael Urwinchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Elizabeth Villanueva
• Emma Greenwood
• Helen Huong Chang
• Herdeep O'Connor
• Katharine Baker
• Michael Charles Bellamy · trustee of 1 other charity
• Raveena Dhadwal
• Stuart William Reeves
• Taranpreet Singh Rai

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• REHABIT income £53k
• MEDICAL COUNCIL ON ALCOHOL income £227k
• THE ALCOHOL AND DRUG SERVICE income £5.4m
• PHARMACY RESEARCH UK income £87k
• HARM REDUCTION INTERNATIONAL income £1.3m
• ESSENTIAL DRUG AND ALCOHOL SERVICES income £344k

Side by side with its peers

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