SANCTUARY FAMILY SUPPORT

Registered charity 1161537 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Sanctuary Family Support provides:- 1-1 support, advice, counselling, advocacy, home visits, referrals, peer to peer group, relapse prevention, health & wellbeing workshops, holistic therapies, drug education and information, sign posting, family cohesion activities.

Objects

TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AMONGST PERSON SUFFERING FROM SUBSTANCE MISUSE BY THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT,ADVICE AND COUNSELLING FOR THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES, AND TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN ALL MATTERS RELATING TO SUBSTANCE MISUSE

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Liverpool, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £37,441 for the year ended June 2025, with total income of £174,668 and total expenditure of £137,227. Free reserves stood at £26,877, which the trustees state is sufficient to cover their stated policy target of three months' running costs and redundancy provisions totaling £19,822.

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
• 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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• John Moores Foundation — “Thank you to John Moores Foundation for funding our charity” (source page)

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/08/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MADELEINE VAZ DIPCchair
• Christina Dempsey
• DRUSILLA CLARKE LLB, DIP C
• JUNE HUDSON
• Roy Davis CIPD

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

Operates in: Knowsley · Liverpool City · Sefton

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 ESCAPE FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP.

• ESCAPE FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP income £390k
• FOUNDATIONS: SUPPORTING FAMILIES income £336k
• SANCTUARY MENTAL HEALTH SOCIETY income £43k
• SUSSEX PRISONERS' FAMILIES income £263k
• FAMILY REFUGEE SUPPORT PROJECT income £255k
• SALUSBURY WORLD income £272k

Side by side with its peers

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