THE VIP - VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROJECT

Registered charity 1175817 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The VIP work with young people involved in gangs and serious youth violence, providing emotional and practical support. We aim to develop strong, trusting, therapeutic relationships with clients enabling difficult emotions to be discussed and processed leading to a better ability to contain ones emotions.

Objects

THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE INVOLVED IN, OR AT RISK OF INVOLVEMENT IN, SERIOUS YOUTH VIOLENCE THUS IMPROVING THEIR COMMUNITIES AND LIVES OF THEMSELVES AND OTHERS.

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 FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £960 and unrestricted reserves of £9,134. The trustees report that reserves are maintained at a level equivalent to between three and six months of expenditure, and they expect to finish the financial year with close to three months' reserves as per their policy. The charity was entitled to exemption from audit under the small companies regime.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• 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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/10/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alessandro Ferrarichair
• Christopher Leslie
• Desiree Blamey
• Emma Louise Thornton
• Lisa O'Daly
• Nickola Margaret Holmes
• Osric Richards

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENCE PROJECT, BRITAIN.

• ALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENCE PROJECT, BRITAIN income £101k
• RAPE AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE PROJECT income £1.9m
• STAND AGAINST VIOLENCE income £132k
• Rape Crisis South London income £4.1m
• E P YOUTH LTD income £159k
• ENGAGE YOUTH EMPOWERMENT SERVICES (EYES) income £344k

Side by side with its peers

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