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Registered charity · Northampton

The Society for the Study of Addiction

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £1.4m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.addiction-ssa.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Society for the Study of Addiction
Registered
1992

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.4m£1.7m
  • 2024£1.4m£1.4m
  • 2023£1.4m£1.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.2m£1.2m
  • 2021£1.2m£1.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS (“OBJECTS”) ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC ON MATTERS RELATING TO DEPENDENCE ON ALCOHOL AND DRUGS AND OTHER FORMS OF DEPENDENCE ASSOCIATED WITH COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOUR; AND THE RELIEF OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM DEPENDENCE ON ALCOHOL AND DRUGS AND FROM OTHER FORMS OF DEPENDENCE ASSOCIATED WITH COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOUR.

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

3.1y median 3y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

Portfolio (2)

13
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 14Education/training 1Religious Activities 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Other services 13Health and social care 2Education 1

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.4m latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

7.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 18.7 in 2021

9 from 8 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1009826
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 27/02/1992NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 08/11/2012AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 10/12/2012 as amended on 08 Nov 2018 as amended on 09 Nov 2023
Companies House
Company number 02691654 · Active
Contact on the register
07717482860 · rob@addiction-ssa.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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