VIEWPOINT

Registered charity 1159735 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Viewpoint is an independent charity which has been running for around 12 years with the aim of supporting people to use their personal experiences of mental health and/or drug & alcohol issues to improve services. We do this in many ways from local forums and user representation to focus groups and user delivered training.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY THE INVOLVEMENT OF USERS OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE SERVICES AND SUBSTANCE MISUSE SERVICES IN THE PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT, DELIVERY AND MONITORING OF THOSE SERVICES.THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING TO HELP HEALTH, SOCIAL CARE AND SUBSTANCE MISUSE SERVICE USERS GAIN THE NECESSARY CONFIDENCE AND SKILLS TO EFFECTIVELY REPRESENT THEMSELVES AND THEIR PEERS.THE PROVISION OF A CONDUIT BETWEEN SERVICE USERS, COMMISSIONERS, AND SERVICE PROVIDERS TO ENABLE COLLABORATIVE WORKING (CO-PRODUCTION).TO PROMOTE WELLBEING AND A WIDER UNDERSTANDING OF MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE MISUSE ISSUES.

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 Viewpoint reported a small deficit of £900 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income increasing by over 50% to £323,380. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £107,542, which the trustees consider sufficient given their policy target of three months' core funding, though they note that long-term viability remains precarious due to reliance on specific contracts.

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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Viewpoint (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Hertfordshire County Council — “HertsHelp services are funded by Hertfordshire County Council and NHS partners and delivered by local community organisations all sharing th…” (source page)
• NHS partners — “HertsHelp services are funded by Hertfordshire County Council and NHS partners and delivered by local community organisations all sharing th…” (source page)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/06/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Graham Munnchair
• Ashley Steve Risk
• Eni Bankole-Race
• Jacqui Lynskey
• Joanna Bowen
• Simon Robert Taylor
• Yetunde Rachel Kasonga

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE POINT FOUNDATION.

• THE POINT FOUNDATION income £102k
• VISIONARY - LINKING LOCAL SIGHT LOSS CHARITIES income £399k
• TURNING POINT income £192.5m
• CENTREPOINT SOHO income £63.2m
• BELL VIEW (BELFORD) income £1.8m
• HAVANT AND EAST HANTS MIND income £2.3m

Side by side with its peers

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