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Charity registration number: 1167203

PsyCare UK Welfare & Harm Reduction

Charitable Incorporated Organisation

Trustees Annual Report

for the Year Ended 31 March 2025

PsyCare UK Welfare & Harm Reduction Trustees’ Annual Report for the year ended 31 March 2025

Contents

Contents
Reference and Administrative Details 1
Trustees’ Annual Report 2
Objectives and Activities 2
Achievements and Performance 3
Financial Review 3
Structure, Governance and Management 3
Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities 5

PsyCare UK Welfare & Harm Reduction Trustees’ Annual Report for the year ended 31 March 2025

Reference and Administrative Details

Trustees

The Trustees who served during the year were: -

Dr. Andrew Gibson Ben Holden Guy Jones Amanda Guzinska Jordan Gooding

Principal Office

61 Hamilton Road London NW11 9EH

Charity Registration Number

116720

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PsyCare UK Welfare & Harm Reduction Trustees’ Annual Report for the year ended 31 March 2025

Trustees’ Annual Report

The Trustees present their annual report together with the financial statements of the Charity for the year ended 31 March 2025.

Objectives and Activities

Objects and aims

The Charity exists to preserve and protect the health and wellbeing of the public who attend festivals and events in particular but not exclusively by: -

(a) the provision of event welfare services,

(b) the provision of non-judgemental harm reduction information and advice and

It also works to advance the education of the public in harm reduction and psychedelic care services in particular but not exclusively by:-

(a) the provision of information and advice and

(b) the provision of lectures and fora.

Activities

PsyCare UK Welfare & Harm Reduction provides a fully staffed 24-hour service to events and festivals across the UK. We specialise in providing non-medical crisis intervention services and harm reduction information and advice. Harm reduction information is given both orally and through the display and distribution of printed materials.

We recruit a large team of experienced volunteers to enable us to provide this service and all new volunteers receive comprehensive training. We own four mobile canvas-based structures which can be set-up onsite at events, our onsite operations are run from these structures. These structures allow us to provide the following: -

The operations do not present major risks as we are providing only non-medical advice and guidance, and using people who are trained to provide these services.

With good governance in mind the Charity continues to review and develop policies and procedures. The following new policy was adopted by the Charity during this financial year: Bullying & Harassment Policy.

Public benefit

The Trustees confirm that they have complied with the requirements of section 17 of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to the public benefit guidance published by the Charity Commission for England and Wales.

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PsyCare UK Welfare & Harm Reduction Trustees’ Annual Report for the year ended 31 March 2025

Achievements and Performance

The Charity delivered harm reduction and welfare services at a total of 13 events over the course of the year. This created 234 volunteering opportunities and resulted in over 4000 volunteer hours donated. Across the 13 events the Charity supported over 563 people through difficult experiences.

Prior to the event season in 2024, the Charity appointed 25 Event Coordinators. The Event Coordinators were trained by the Charity to take on-site responsibility for the delivery of PsyCare services as events. This has removed a huge amount of pressure from the core team, enabling them to focus on broader operational and strategic objectives.

In May 2024 the Charity delivered its annual two-day training to over 100 new volunteers. This enabled the Charity to provide a comprehensive training package which consists of both didactic and experiential learning and equips the volunteers to deliver the very high standard of care that is expected from PsyCare UK.

In March 2025 the Charity delivered its first training session open to the general public. ‘De-escalating Psychedelic Crisis’ was a two-day in-person training which attracted 48 participants, bringing in valuable income to the Charity. The feedback from participants on the training was excellent. The Charity plans to run the training on a regular basis.

Personnel from the Charity have delivered talks at various conferences and educational institutions - Street Drugs Wales; Compassionate Mental Health, PsyEdu, University of York, University of Greenwich.

Financial Review

The Trustees are pleased with the performance of the Charity which achieved another strong year in terms of income. The events industry is experiencing a number of challenges at present and smaller independent event organisers in particular are struggling. The Trustees are aware that some events will not be going ahead next year. The challenging climate may make the securing of new bookings more difficult. The Trustees have been assured that additional efforts are being made to consolidate existing relationships and to seek out new business.

The Charity aims to hold unrestricted reserves of at least three months operating costs and as at 31 March 2025 has Unrestricted Reserves of £29,911 which meets this goal.

Principle Sources of Funds

The principal source of funds for the charity is income from delivering welfare and harm reduction services at events. The charity also receives a substantial number of small donations from members of the public.

Structure, Governance and Management

Nature of governing document

The Charity is governed by a ‘Foundation’ model constitution registered 19 May 2016 and amended 27 January 2018 and 26 March 2024 and operates as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation.

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PsyCare UK Welfare & Harm Reduction Trustees’ Annual Report for the year ended 31 March 2025

Recruitment and appointment of Trustees

Trustees are appointed by the other Trustees as vacancies arise or the Trustees feel the governance can be improved by inviting additional Trustees to join the Charity Trustees. Trustees are appointed for a term of 3 years and are required to retire and be re-appointed after 3 years.

Major risks and management of those risks

The Trustees have a duty to identify and review the risks to which the Charity is exposed and to ensure appropriate controls are in place to provide reasonable assurance against fraud and error. This is reviewed annually.

The annual report was approved by the Trustees of the Charity on 22nd January 2026 and signed on its behalf by:

Ben Holden Secretary

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PsyCare UK Welfare & Harm Reduction Trustees’ Annual Report for the year ended 31 March 2025

Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities

The Trustees are responsible for preparing the Trustees' report and the financial statements in accordance with the United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice) and applicable law and regulations.

The law applicable to charities requires the Trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Charity and of the incoming resources and application of resources of the Charity for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the Trustees are required to:

The Trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Charity and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011, the applicable Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations, and the provisions of the constitution. The Trustees are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

Approved by the Trustees of the Charity on 22nd January 2026 and signed on its behalf by:

Ben Holden Secretary

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PsyCare UK Welfare & Harm Reduction PsyCare UK Welfare & Harm Reduction 1167203
Receipts andpayments accounts CC16a
01-Apr-24
For the period
from		 To 31-Mar-25

Section A Receipts and payments

A1 Receipts Unrestricted
funds
to the nearest
£
35,816
16,926
-
-
-
-
-
-
52,742
-
-
-
52,742
9,984
24,860
10,979
-
-
-
-
-
45,823
-
-
-
45,823
6,919
-
-
6,919		 Restricted
funds
to the nearest £
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 Endowment
funds
to the nearest £		 Total funds
to the nearest £
35,816
16,926
-
-
-
-
-
-
52,742
-
-
-
52,742
9,984
24,860
10,979
-
-
-
-
-
45,823
-
-
-
45,823

6,919		 Total funds
to the nearest £
35,816
16,926
-
-
-
-
-
-
52,742
-
-
-
52,742
9,984
24,860
10,979
-
-
-
-
-
45,823
-
-
-
45,823

6,919		 Last year
to the nearest £
Event fees 35,816 -
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 35,816 37,162
Donations andgrants 16,926 16,926 20,205
- - -
- - -
- - -
- - -
- - -
- - -
Sub total(Gross income for
AR)		 52,742 52,742 57,367
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- -
-
-		 -
- - -
Sub total - - -
Total receipts
A3 Payments
- 52,742 57,367
Charitable activities: -
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Direct costs of events 9,984 9,984 11,507
Volunteers & labour costs 24,860 24,860 24,408
General overheads 10,979 10,979 8,874
- - -
- - -
- - -
- - -
- - -
**Sub total ** 45,823 45,823 44,789
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- -
-
-		 -
- -
**Sub total ** - - -
Total payments
Net of receipts/(payments)
A5 Transfers between funds
A6 Cash funds last year end
Cash funds this year end
- 45,823 44,789
6,919 - -
6,919		 12,578
- - -
-		 - -
- - - -
6,919 - - 6,919 12,578

CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

09/10/2025

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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

Categories
B5 Liabilities
B3 Investment assets
B2 Other monetary assets
B4 Assets retained for the
charity’s own use
B1 Cash funds		 Details
Details
Total cash funds
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Bank & Cash Accounts
Details
Details
Motor vehicles
Event equipment
Office equipment
Details		 Unrestricted
funds
to nearest £
29,911
-
-
29,911
Agreement Error
Unrestricted
funds
to nearest £
-
-
-
-
-
-
Fund to which
asset belongs
Fund to which
asset belongs
General
General
General
Fund to which
liability relates		 Restricted
funds
to nearest £
3,371
-
-
3,371
Agreement Error
Restricted
funds
to nearest £
-
-
-
-
-
-
Cost (optional)
-
-
-
-
-
Cost (optional)
12,389
2,492
345
-
-
-
-
-
-
Amount due
(optional)
-
-
-
-
-		 Endowment
funds
to nearest £
-
-
-
-
OK
Endowment
funds
to nearest £
-
-
-
-
-
-
Current value
(optional)
-
-
-
-
-
Current value
(optional)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
When due
(optional)
-
-
-
-
-

Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees

Signature Print Name
Benjamin Holden
GuyJones		 Date of
approval
Benjamin Holden 2025-10-19
GuyJones 2025-10-21

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

09/10/2025

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REF. NUMBER
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DOCUMENT COMPLETED BY ALL PARTIES ON
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SIGNER
TIMESTAMP
SIGNATURE
BEN HOLDEN
EMAIL
BEN@PSYCAREUK.ORG
SENT
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VIEWED
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SIGNED
19 OCT 2025 19:08:35
IP ADDRESS
194.233.152.4
LOCATION
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RECIPIENT VERIFICATION
EMAIL VERIFIED
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EMAIL
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CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Sectlon A Independent Examinevs Report Report to the trusteesl members of Psycare UK Welfare & Harm Reduction On accounts for the year endod 31, March 2025 Charity no 1167203 Set out on pages I report to the Iruslees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity {"the Trust") for the year ended 3110312025. Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ("the Act"). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination. I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145{51(bl of the Act. I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause lo believe that in, any material respect.. accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with the accounling records Independent examiner's statement I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order lo enable proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Signed: Date: 2￿/10/25 Name: David Collier Relevant professional qualifiGationls) or body I lif any): FCIE Address: 10 Marlborough Square Ilkley LS29 8PU IER October 2018

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