BREAKING CONVENTION EVENTS

Registered charity 1159687 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BREAKING CONVENTION

The main activity of the charity is to organise the biennial academic conference 'Breaking Convention-Multidisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness'. Breaking Convention is a gathering of psychedelic researchers and those interested in psychedelic research.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND THE ARTS IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:A) ORGANISING AND HOSTING A BIENNIAL ACADEMIC CONFERENCE BRINGING TOGETHER MULTIPLE DISCIPLINES (INCLUDING MEDICINE, PSYCHOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY, LAW, POLITICS AND THE ARTS) ASSOCIATED WITH THE RESEARCH OF PSYCHEDELIC SUBSTANCES; B) PROMOTING AND SUPPORTING RESEARCH ON PSYCHEDELIC SUBSTANCES AND THE DISSEMINATION, AND ASSISTANCE IN THE DISSEMINATION, OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.C) THE PUBLICATION OF AN ACADEMIC BOOK BASED ON EACH CONFERENCE

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a small operating profit of £3,135 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with net current assets of £11,906. The trustees report that all income is spent on organizing the conference and operations, with any surplus carried forward to cover future events. The financial statements were subject to an independent examination rather than a full audit.

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 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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVE LUKEchair
• Aimee Tollan
• Alexander Jakob Beiner
• Dr Peter Howard Hughes
• Harriet Wells
• Nikki Wyrd

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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