NOT A PHASE
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.”
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.
What the accounts disclose
Policies the charity declares
- 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
- Paying staff
- Safeguarding policy and procedures
- Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
- Social media policy and procedures
- Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
- Trustee expenses policy and procedures
From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)
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
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).
Trustees
- Dee Humphreyschair
- Antonia Belcher OBE
- DANIELLE ANSON-JONES
- DANIELLE ANSON-JONES
- Dr Jack Lopez
- GLYN FUSSELL
- Hayden Millar
Income and spending
| Financial year end | Income | Spending |
|---|---|---|
| 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
| Funder | Year | Amount | Purpose (as stated by the funder) |
|---|---|---|---|
| THE HARDY FAMILY FOUNDATION | FY2025 | £5k |
Government & lottery funding
| Funder | Date | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Postcode Lottery | 30/09/2024 | £25k | Unrestricted Funding |
| The National Lottery Community Fund | 08/04/2024 | £20k | Uplifting Lives |
| Sport England | 03/04/2024 | £8k | NewAge Misfits |
Funders of similar charities
| Funder | Similar charities funded | Amount to them |
|---|---|---|
| ZOUQ FOUNDATION | 1 | £382k |
| GATEWAY CHURCH SWINDON | 1 | £13k |
| FRIENDS FOUNDATION | 1 | £11k |
| NEWBY TRUST LIMITED | 1 | £5k |
| Mercer Family Charitable Foundation | 1 | £5k |
| SIR JOHN PRIESTMAN CHARITY TRUST | 1 | £2k |
| THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CHASE TERRACE AND BONEY HAY, ST. JOHN | 1 | £550 |
| STAFFORDSHIRE COUNCIL OF VOLUNTARY YOUTH SERVICES | 1 | £500 |
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Side by side with its peers
| Charity | Income | Top pay band | Staff >£60k | Reserves vs policy | Fundraising cost | Going concern |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NOT A PHASE | £490k | — | 0 | unclear | — | no doubt |
| TRANSITION NETWORK | £1.0m | Under £60,000 | 0 | above | — | no doubt |
| Transform NE | £241k | — | 0 | unclear | — | no doubt |
| PHASE TRUST | £407k | — | 0 | unclear | — | no doubt |
| PERIOD POWER | £50k | — | 0 | unclear | — | no doubt |
| PHASES SOCIAL ENTERPRISE | £170k | — | 0 | unclear | — | no doubt |