GRASSROOTS SUICIDE PREVENTION

Registered charity 1149873 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We work locally and nationally with communities, organisations, services and individuals, helping them to become ready, willing and able to effectively support someone at risk of suicide. Our training and consultancy helps to save lives by enabling conversations that count. Through public events and our online community we work to reduce stigma and promote positive mental health and wellbeing.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE GOOD MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH OF THE PUBLIC BY CONTRIBUTING TO THE PREVENTION OF SUICIDE, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING INTO THE CAUSES AND EFFECT OF SUICIDE AND SUICIDE INTERVENTION, THEREBY SEEKING TO REDUCE THE RISK AND OCCURRENCE OF SUICIDE.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Brighton and Hove, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit on unrestricted activities of £37,846 for the year ended 31 March 2025. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves were £307,315, which amounts to 3.6 months of budgeted expenditure, falling below the trustees' stated policy target of 6 months. The charity is considered a going concern with adequate resources to continue operational existence.

Automated summary of the FY2025 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)

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Grassroots Suicide Prevention (matched by registered charity number).

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (81% 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: 6.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Stuart Adams
• David Elliott Anthony Rainford
• Dr Karen Lascelles · trustee of 1 other charity
• Emma Mills-Sheffield
• Lisa Marzano

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

Operates in: Throughout England

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 SUICIDE CRISIS.

• SUICIDE CRISIS income £12k
• Shropshire Mental Health Support income £747k
• GASPED income £431k
• CAMPAIGN AGAINST LIVING MISERABLY income £8.7m
• RIPPLE SUICIDE PREVENTION CHARITY income £420k
• FULL FACT income £3.1m

Side by side with its peers

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