NORTHERN ENGAGEMENT INTO RECOVERY FROM ADDICTION FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1141400 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NERAF, NORTH EAST REGIONAL ALCOHOL FORUM

NERAF provide peer 1-2-1 recovery coaching & peer groups for people who have substance addictions & their family/carers. NERAF work to achieve outcomes in, Mental, Physical & Emotional Health &Wellbeing,HousingEducation/Employment, Relationships, Finance,Offending, Living Skills. Raising public awareness through a monthly newsletter,website,conferences,partnership working,training & networks.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ALL ASPECTS OF THE MISUSE OF ALCOHOL AND OTHER SUBSTANCE ABUSE;FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC BY PROMOTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF TREATMENT AND ADVICE SERVICES FOR THOSE WHO MISUSE ALCOHOL AND/OR OTHER SUBSTANCE ABUSE, THEIR FAMILIES AND FRIENDS.

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 · Accommodation/housing · Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sunderland, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the financial year with a net income of £14,133 and total unrestricted reserves of £162,059. Per the trustees' report, the charity remains in a good financial position with stable funding streams and no material uncertainties regarding its future operations.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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
• Volunteer management

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Northern Engagement into Recovery From Addiction Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/07/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Eleanor Griffinchair
• Billy Broad Mr · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christine Carruthers
• Helen Nicholson
• Natalie Parry

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

Operates in: Gateshead · North Tyneside · South Tyneside · Sunderland

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 ADDICTIONS NORTH EAST.

• ADDICTIONS NORTH EAST income £2.0m
• ADFAM NATIONAL income £861k
• MENTAL HEALTH NORTHANTS COLLABORATION income £1.8m
• NORTH WALES RECOVERY COMMUNITIES income £681k
• Relationship Therapy North income £376k
• THE NORWICH CENTRE FOR PERSONAL PROFESSIONAL AND SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT income £279k

Side by side with its peers

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