ESSEX RECOVERY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1185335 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We are revolutionising recovery from addiction to drug and alcohol. We do this by improving services: bringing the community voice and the evidence-base into service commissioning and working with local providers to improve delivery. We also do this by creating a positive environment around services: destigmatising addiction and helping people in recovery rebuild their lives.

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM DRUG AND/OR ALCOHOL ADDICTION, THEIR FAMILIES/CARERS, AND THE WIDER COMMUNITY, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY A) COMMISSIONING SERVICES, SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES IN COLLABORATION WITH THE RECOVERY COMMUNITY, PROVIDERS AND OTHER PARTNERS AND B) RAISING AWARENESS.

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Chelmsford, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves were £14,130, which is below the charity's stated policy target of approximately £180,000. However, the charity holds significant restricted funds of £759,478, including £667,000 from Essex County Council designated for the period October 2024 to September 2025, and the trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2023) → 1 (FY2024).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 30/09/2024 (received 31/07/2025, 1 day after the 30/07/2025 due date); year ending 30/09/2021 (received 01/09/2022, 33 days after the 30/07/2022 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Essex Recovery Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~0.3 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 (99% 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

• Andrew Sheldon
• David Robert Clarke
• Emma Tulip-Betts
• James Robert Cook
• Joseph Harrington
• Katherine Mitchell
• Madeline Goldie

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ESSEX POLICE FORCE BENEVOLENT FUND.

• ESSEX POLICE FORCE BENEVOLENT FUND income £49k
• ESSENTIAL DRUG AND ALCOHOL SERVICES income £344k
• REHABIT income £53k
• BEACON RECOVERY income £572k
• EAST SUSSEX RECOVERY ALLIANCE income £178k
• Essex & Suffolk Youth Enquiry Service Ltd income £548k

Side by side with its peers

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