THE BATON OF HOPE UK

Registered charity 1203031 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BATON OF HOPE

The Baton of Hope UK raises awareness of suicide prevention, improving access to information and services so as to prevent suicide. It acts as a national umbrella resource body to promote action, to improve understanding, services and responses; as a forum to bring about change and hope; and it is a catalyst for initiatives such as the work place charter, safe havens & mental health first aiders.

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT HEALTH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY LIAISING AND COLLABORATING WITH CHARITIES AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING IN SUICIDE PREVENTION IN ORDER TO:A) PROVIDE A FORUM TO IDENTIFY GAPS IN THE RANGE OF CHARITABLE SERVICES AVAILABLE TO THOSE THEY SERVE;B) PROVIDE ADVICE, INFORMATION AND SUPPORT TO THOSE WORKING IN THIS FIELD;C) REPRESENTING THE VIEWS OF THE FORUM TO POLICY MAKERS AND FUNDERS;D) PROMOTING AND SUPPORTING, CHARITIES, INITIATIVES AND ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RAISE AWARENESS OF SUICIDE.2.2 TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE MENTAL HEALTH OF THOSE STRUGGLING FROM SUICIDAL IDEATIONS IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY FUNDING, SIGNPOSTING AND/OR IMPROVING ACCESS TO:A) SHORT-TERM ACCOMMODATION AT SAFE HAVENS AND ACCESS TO SUITABLY QUALIFIED COUNSELLORS AND / OR PRACTITIONERS;B) MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AIDERS IN SCHOOLS AND WORKPLACES, AND IN OTHER SITUATIONS WHERE A MEDICAL FIRST AIDER WOULD BE REQUIRED, SUCH AS AT MAJOR SPORTING EVENTS AND CONCERTS.2.3 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC INTO THE CAUSES, EFFECTS AND PREVENTION OF SUICIDE IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY:A) COLLECTING DATA, CONDUCTING, COMMISSIONING AND DISSEMINATING RESEARCH; ANDB) THE PROVISION, SUPPORT AND SIGNPOSTING OF TRAINING, WORKSHOPS, MENTORING, CONFERENCES AND EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES;C) THE SUPPORT AND DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMATION AND AWARENESS RAISING DOCUMENTARIES WITH AN EDUCATIONAL FOCUS.2.4 TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF PERSONS AT RISK OF SUICIDE AND THEIR FAMILIES, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY:A) RAISING PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE AT RISK OF SUICIDE AND INDICATORS FOR THE BEHAVIOUR OF SUCH PEOPLE AND HOW TO SUPPORT THEM;B) HIGHLIGHTING AND SIGNPOSTING TO SOURCES OF SUPPORT FOR PEOPLE AT RISK;C) HIGHLIGHTING AND SIGNPOSTING THE NEED FOR, AND ACCESS TO, FAMILY LIAISON AND SUPPORT SERVICES FOR FAMILIES.IN FURTHERANCE OF THESE OBJECTS, BUT NOT OTHERWISE, THE TRUSTEES SHALL HAVE POWER TO ENGAGE IN POLITICAL ACTIVITY PROVIDED THAT THE TRUSTEES ARE SATISFIED THAT THE PROPOSED ACTIVITIES WILL FURTHER THE PURPOSES OF THE CHARITY TO AN EXTENT JUSTIFIED BY THE RESOURCES COMMITTED AND THE ACTIVITY IS NOT THE DOMINANT MEANS BY WHICH THE CHARITY CARRIES OUT ITS OBJECTS.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sheffield, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds carried forward increased to £165,268, with unrestricted reserves of the same amount and no restricted funds. The trustees propose maintaining reserves at a level equivalent to six months of operational expenditure. The charity reported a net incoming resource of £123,319 for the year, derived primarily from donations.

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 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Baton of Hope UK (matched by registered charity number).

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Michael McCarthychair
• Alexandra Elizabeth Peace-Gadsby · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrea Balmer
• Jayne Walsham
• Norson Boyd Harris
• Victoria Musson · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Suicide Prevention UK.

• Suicide Prevention UK income £485k
• HOPE FOUNDATION HELPING THE HELPLESS income £254k
• PROJECT HOPE, UNITED KINGDOM income £176k
• VOICE OF HOPE income £76k
• TREE OF HOPE income £1.1m
• HELP TO CREATE HOPE TRUST income £2.1m

Side by side with its peers

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