ITBTT FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1204433 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as IT TAKES BALLS TO TALK

It Takes Balls to Talk is a campaign which uses sporting themes to encourage people, particularly men, to talk about how they feel.SO WHY ARE WE FOCUSING ON MENSuicide is the biggest cause of death in men under the age of 45Over three quarters of people who kill themselves are male (ReferenceONS)5% of men in the UK are suffering from one of the common mental health disorders,

Objects

THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF GOOD MENTAL HEALTH PARTICULARLY MEN BY:- USING A COMMON INTEREST SUCH AS SPORT TO FACILITATE OPEN, CONFIDENTIAL PEER TO PEER DISCUSSIONS- THE PROVISION OF MENTAL HEALTH WORKSHOPS LED BY A MENTAL HEALTH PRACTITIONER

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Coventry, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity had unrestricted cash funds of £2,813.39 at the year end with no material liabilities. Per the trustees' report, the charity considers itself to be in a stable financial position with sufficient funds to support planned activities in the coming year. The charity aims to maintain reserves equivalent to at least three months of operating expenditure, though a formal policy is yet to be established.

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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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 2 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2025 (received 03/02/2026, 3 days after the 31/01/2026 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Victoria Clare Joelchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Alexandra Cotton
• Dr Alan Malik DTech
• Dr Robert William Holmes
• Matthew Manwaring
• Thomas Stewart Colquhoun

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Victoria Clare Joel — trustee here and at THINK ACTIVE CSW

Known funders

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