TAKE OFF

Registered charity 1191902 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Take Off supports people suffering or recovering from mental health problems by organising support groups, encouraging and arranging activities that promote socialisation and rehabilitation, and providing employment.NB: This CIO is essentially the continuation of the charity of the same name (charity no. 1069836) which was formed in 2015. Further information can found on www.takeoffworks.org

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS:TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT GOOD MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS WHO ARE CLIENTS OR EMPLOYEES OF THE CIO BY PROMOTING POSITIVE PHYSICAL ANDMENTAL WELLBEING.

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 · Disability · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Canterbury, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £149,941 (2024: £80,480), driven by a net movement in funds of £69,461. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £50,453 against restricted reserves of £99,488, with no stated reserves policy target provided in the filing.

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 4 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

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 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 07/02/2024, 7 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 10/02/2023, 10 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Take Off (matched by registered charity number).

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/04/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Plumechair
• David Woodrow
• Ian Firth-Clark
• Ngai Ping Kung
• Penelope Lamb
• Rosemary Hawes

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

Operates in: Throughout England

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 LET'S TAKE OFF LTD..

• LET'S TAKE OFF LTD. income £27k
• MAKING IT OUT CIO income £207k
• MOVEMENT TO WORK income £868k
• TOUGH ENOUGH TO CARE income £232k
• TALK COUNSELLING CIO income £27k
• TAKE A PART CIO income £350k

Side by side with its peers

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