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Registered charity · Stoke on Trent

UK Smart Recovery

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £586k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: Stephen Derek Heim.

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, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.smartrecovery.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
UK Smart Recovery
Registered
2015

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£586k£504k
  • 2024£568k£506k
  • 2023£496k£443k
Earlier years
  • 2022£488k£420k
  • 2021£400k£373k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 24%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO ADVANCE HEALTH AND SAVE LIVES INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WITH PROBLEMS CAUSED BY ANY TYPE OF SUBSTANCE OR ACTIVITY DEPENDENCE BY:1. RELIEVING THE SICKNESS AND DISTRESS OF THOSE MEMBERS OF SOCIETY WHOSE DEVELOPMENT AND PARTICIPATION IN SOCIETY IS IMPAIRED BY SUCH DEPENDENCE;2. EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ABOUT, AND PROMOTING A BETTER AND MORE SYMPATHETIC UNDERSTANDING OF, THE CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF SUCH DEPENDENCE; AND3. ADVOCATING FOR A GREATER CHOICE IN RECOVERY OPTIONS AVAILABLE TO THOSE SUFFERING FROM PROBLEMS CAUSED BY ANY TYPE OF SUCH DEPENDENCE.

Grants received

5 grants · £175,336 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Ministry of Defence · £141,000
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £34,336 (4 grants)

Most recent

  • Ministry of Defence £141,0002023-09-22
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £10,0002021-03-26
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,9862018-07-26
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,8102018-07-20
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £4,5402016-08-28
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.

7 trustees on the board

3.4y median 3y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

7
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 7

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

Health and social care 7Retail and trade 2Other services 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£586k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
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.

5.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 4.3 in 2021

11 from 11 in 2024
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
1160516
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 18 SEP 2014
Companies House
Company number 09225444 · Active
Contact on the register
03300536022 · info@smartrecovery.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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