AIREDALE VOLUNTARY DRUG AND ALCOHOL AGENCY LIMITED

Registered charity 1173006 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PROJECT 6

Project 6 is a voluntary sector drug & alcohol provider in Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven, Sheffield and Doncaster. We provide advice & support to substance users, their families and carers. We deliver open access harm reduction services, structured treatment and recovery services in the community, primary and secondary care settings. We also offer peer mentoring and volunteering opportunities.

Objects

1. To reduce harm caused by substances and other dependencies to individuals, their families and communities through harm reduction, advice and information, counselling, and support.2. To create opportunities for people affected by substance or other dependencies, or at risk of developing such dependencies later in life, to make and sustain positive changes in their lives, through developing recovery and community engagement services to assist people in this journey. 3. To promote good health within local communities through delivery of community rooted prevention delivering evidence - based interventions aimed at reducing the impact of substance use or other dependencies or areas of multiple disadvantages.4. To reduce stigma and lack of understanding by promoting education of the public and professionals about the impact of dependency on those affected by substance use and/or other dependencies, their families and the wider community.

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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Registered contact address: Bradford, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a total deficit of £158,250 for the year, with total income rising to £3.8 million and expenditure increasing to £3.9 million. Despite this deficit, free reserves increased to £337,230, and the trustees confirm adequate resources to continue operations for at least 12 months, though they note risks regarding funding stability and staff retention.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BHP LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → going-concern doubt noted (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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 — Project 6 (Airedale Voluntary Drug and Alcohol Agency) (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

9 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (8 freehold); recorded price paid £303k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (91% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/03/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/08/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (29/05/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Kes Lewischair
• Anthony Martin Jackson Ball · trustee of 3 other charities
• Dr David Baiyeshea
• Jane McGeagh
• Lynn Lawson
• Quentin Marris
• Sarfraz Arif
• Taposhree Baruah
• Umar Iqbal

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

Operates in: Bradford City · Calderdale · City Of Wakefield · Derbyshire · Doncaster · East Riding Of Yorkshire · Kirklees · Leeds City · North Yorkshire · Sheffield City

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 THE ALCOHOL AND DRUG SERVICE.

• THE ALCOHOL AND DRUG SERVICE income £5.4m
• SERVICE SIX income £2.0m
• BRYNAWEL HOUSE ALCOHOL AND DRUG REHABILITATION CENTRE LTD income £1.6m
• VOLUNTEERING BRADFORD income £117k
• ESSENTIAL DRUG AND ALCOHOL SERVICES income £344k
• ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS IN WREXHAM income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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