NOT A PHASE

Registered charity 1193381 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q134081050 · Wikipedia

Not a Phase is working towards a brighter future for the trans community across the UK. Through awareness campaigning, community unifying activities and peer support workshops, developing company diversity strategies and supporting trans owned business and projects with financial and material investment, Not A Phase aims to bridge the gaps that the trans people too often fall between.

Objects

FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS CLAUSE, ‘GENDER IDENTITY’ MEANS AN INDIVIDUAL’S PERCEPTION OF THEIR GENDER AND THE GENDER BY WHICH THEY REFER TO THEMSELVES AND ‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, ON THE GROUNDS OF GENDER IDENTITY.THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:1. THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONGST PEOPLE WHO ARE ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED AS A RESULT OF DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF GENDER IDENTITY.2. 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.3. TO PROMOTE EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IN PARTICULAR THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF GENDER IDENTITY INCLUDING WHERE GENDER IDENTITY IS DIFFERENT FROM A PERSON’S SEX AT BIRTH, BY.A) ADVANCING EDUCATION AND RAISING AWARENESS IN EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY; ANDB) CULTIVATING A SENTIMENT IN FAVOUR OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY.”

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Latest income
£490k
Latest spending
£426k
Registered
2021
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds total £231,073, providing a positive net asset position. The charity reports adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Total income for the year was £490,279 against total expenditure of £426,335.

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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/06/2025

  • Volunteers: 50

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/06/2024

  • Volunteers: 25
  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; other trustee benefit

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/06/2023

  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity

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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2023 (received 16/05/2024, 16 days after the 30/04/2024 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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
30/06/2025£490k£426k
30/06/2024£487k£298k
30/06/2023£207k£199k
30/06/2022£79k£50k

Common questions

Is NOT A PHASE financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted funds total £231,073, providing a positive net asset position. The charity reports adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Total income for the year was £490,279 against total expenditure of £426,335. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds NOT A PHASE?

Funders whose own accounts filings name NOT A PHASE as a grant recipient include THE HARDY FAMILY FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE HARDY FAMILY FOUNDATIONFY2025£5k

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
Postcode Lottery30/09/2024£25kUnrestricted Funding
The National Lottery Community Fund08/04/2024£20kUplifting Lives
Sport England03/04/2024£8kNewAge Misfits

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TRANSITION NETWORK.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
NOT A PHASE£490k—0unclear—no doubt
TRANSITION NETWORK FY2025£1.0mUnder £60,0000above—no doubt
Transform NE FY2025£241k—0unclear—no doubt
PHASE TRUST FY2025£407k—0unclear—no doubt
PERIOD POWER FY2025£50k—0unclear—no doubt
PHASES SOCIAL ENTERPRISE FY2025£170k—0unclear—no doubt

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