PUSHING CHANGE

Registered charity 1164001 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Pushing change promotes social inclusion by empowering people to overcome issues of dependency, mental health and homelessness. We do this by providing peer support, peer advocacy, education, training, awareness raising and self development. We also provide direct support for people to access services and represent service user interests with commissioners and service providers.

Objects

TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS STATEMENT ?SOCIALLY EXCLUDED? MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OF MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; YOUTH OR OLD AGE; ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR DEPENDENCY INCLUDING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS; DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEX, RACE, DISABILITY, ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER RE-ASSIGNMENT; POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; RELATIONSHIP AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN; POOR HOUSING (THAT IS HOUSING THAT DOES NOT MEET BASIC HABITABLE STANDARDS; CRIME (EITHER AS A VICTIM OF CRIME OR AS AN OFFENDER REHABILITATING INTO SOCIETY).

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · Get email alerts

Latest income
£212k
Latest spending
£241k
Registered
2015

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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.

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2022

  • Volunteers: 26
  • Government income: £150,000 — contracts £150,000 (1); 71% of the £212,035 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2021

  • Volunteers: 15

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2020

  • Volunteers: 15
  • Government income: £51,167 — grants £51,167 (6); 21% of the £248,962 total gross income on the same return

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 2 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 08/03/2023, 36 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Operates in: Portsmouth City

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025——
31/03/2024——
31/03/2023——
31/03/2022£212k£241k
31/03/2021£234k£238k

Common questions

Who funds PUSHING CHANGE?

Funders whose own accounts filings name PUSHING CHANGE as a grant recipient include THE MACKIE FOUNDATION, THE WO STREET CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE MACKIE FOUNDATIONFY2022£56k
THE WO STREET CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONFY2022£4k
THE MACKIE FOUNDATIONFY2023amount not stated

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund08/07/2022£10kSHIFT (Self Help Inspiring Forward Thinking)
The National Lottery Community Fund19/03/2021£10kPeer Recovery Support Workers
UK government07/08/2020£10kCoronavirus Community Support Fund
The National Lottery Community Fund13/12/2018£10kRecovery Brokers Communication Equipment