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Active Listening

Annual Report and Accounts © For the year ending 30 April 2025

WANA

Annual Report 2024/25

Active Listening registered office 59 Old Galgorm Road Ballymena County Antrim BT42 1AN 07592 944 807 help@alni.org.uk www.activelistening.org.uk

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Table of Contents

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Annual Report 2024/25

Vision

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Active Listening believes everyone in the midst of crisis should have someone they can talk to — in confidence, without judgement and the freedom to determine their next step.

What do we do?

Active Listening stands in the gap providing hope.

Active Listening receives referrals from the emergency services for adults in the midst of crisis for whom we offer face-to-face confidential listening and signposting.

How it works

  1. Person in midst of crisis - Emergency services assess the situation - If criteria are met emergency services refer to Active Listening

  2. Active Listening assess the referral for suitability - Accepted referral is directed to a local Team Coordinator

  3. Team Coordinator assesses the referral and assigns two team members — Team Members make contact with person in midst of crisis

We are committed to the following values:

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Chairman’s Introduction

Welcome to our 2024/25 Annual Report

Every day across Northern Ireland there are many people in the midst of crisis who simply _ theneedbeliefto talkthatto someonesuch peopleaboutdeserve their owntopersonalhave someonesituation. toActivetalk Listeningto in confidence,has evolvedwithoutfrom judgement, yet retaining the freedom to resolve their own issues.

During 2024/25 the members of the Board of Trustees continued to exercise their key responsibilities:

During the past year the work of Active Listening was greatly blessed by its Christian volunteers who have a heart and compassion for people and wish to share God's love to everyone through their service in this domain. Contact with those referred to the charity was largely made through telephone calls.

Financially it is always challenging operating on a shoestring budget and having limited financial support and stability. However, we are grateful we have been able to maintain a level of support during the period of this Annual Report. As Chair and on behalf of the Board {| would like to thank our listening and signposting teams across Northern Ireland for the key role they each play in providing support for those in need. Much appreciation needs to be extended to our Chief Executive Officer for his support, commitment and energy to the overall leadership of Active Listening, to the members of the Management Team for managing the charity's work and to Ruth whois the first point of contact in the office for all referrals. Finally, | wish to convey my sincere thanks to all trustees on the Board for their prayers, support and dedication throughout the past year in furthering the work of Active Listening.

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Chief Executive Officer’s Statement

During this reporting period, Northern Ireland has continued to experience significant ongoing pressure on public services, persistent mental health need, and the real-life impact of financial insecurity. This has contributed to an environment in which many people feel overwhelmed, isolated, or simply unseen. In that context, the ministry of presence is not a luxury, it is essential.

Active Listening exists to provide a compassionate, distinctly Christian response to people in distress, offering time, steadiness, and dignity when life feels unstable. Our volunteers do not “fix” people, they stand with them. They listen carefully, respond appropriately, and help individuals take the next right step. This work often takes place quietly and without fanfare, but it is deeply consequential. It is, in the truest sense, standing in the gap.

| am particularly grateful for our ongoing relationship with colleagues across the Police Service of Northern Ireland. During the 2024/25 financial year, Active Listening received 128 referrals. Each referral represents a person, not a statistic, who has reached a point of crisis, confusion, grief, fear, or exhaustion and needs to be met with compassion and care. We remain thankful for the trust placed in our organisation and for those who have taken the initiative to refer individuals for support, often while carrying significant responsibilities themselves.

Behind every referral is also a volunteer who has chosen to show up. To our Active Listening Volunteers, thank you for your consistency, discretion, and courage. You have given time when it was inconvenient, steadiness when situations were complex, and kindness when energy was likely running low. You model a form of public service that is rooted in faith and expressed through humility.

| also want to acknowledge the quiet professionalism that sits beneath our service: good practice, safeguarding discipline, appropriate boundaries, supervision, and a commitment to learn. Compassion must always be accompanied by competence, and | am grateful that our volunteers embrace both.

My thanks also go to our Board of Trustees for their governance, discernment, and unwavering support throughout the year. In a challenging operating environment, their oversight has ensured that Active Listening remains both mission-faithful and operationally responsible, able to respond to need.

As we look ahead, our purpose remains unchanged: to be present, to listen well, and to offer hope in practical ways. My encouragement to anyone reading this report is simple. Do not watch from the side-lines. Find a way to help, through volunteering, partnership, prayer, or practical support, and take the next step. When ordinary people choose to act with compassion, communities change.

Sam Wilson Chief Executive Officer

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Overview of Active Listening

Active Listening operates throughout Northern Ireland with a central management team based in Ballymena and volunteer listening teams in nine locations— six districts — Antrim and Newtownabbey, Ards and North Down, Causeway Coast and Glens, Mid and East Antrim, Mid Uister and Omagh and Fermanagh.

Active Listening provides a confidential and non-judgmental listening and signposting service to vulnerable adults in Northern Ireland. Our service is provided by volunteers drawn from local churches working with a committed Christian faith.

We meet vulnerable adults who are struggling with domestic violence, drug and alcohol abuse, suicide or risk of suicide, debt, self-harm, bereavement and depression to name but a few.

Our purpose is to:

The Trustees confirm that they have had due regard to the Charity Commission of Northern ireland’s guidance on public benefit in reviewing the charity's aims and objectives, in planning future activities and in compiling this report.

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Trustees’ Annual Report

The Trustees, who are also the directors under company law, present their annual report and financial accounts for the year ended 30 April 2025. This report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies entitled to the small companies exemption. .

Structure, Governance and Management

Structure

Active Listening is a charitable company limited by guarantee. It was incorporated in 2010, having been founded by (the late) Mike Elwood in 2007.

Active Listening’s Office and Leadership Team is based in Ballymena. The Management Team are based throughout Northern Ireland and provide support to the Active Listening Teams. The Leadership team is responsible to the Board of Trustees.

Active Listening volunteer teams are based in six districts — Antrim and Newtownabbey, Ards and North Down, Causeway Coast and Glens, Mid and East Antrim, Mid Ulster and Omagh and Fermanagh. They are managed by a Team Coordinator who reports to the Management Team.

Governance

Active Listening is governed by a Memorandum and Articles of Association which were substantially revised in 2014 when the charity was applying for registration with the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland. The governing body is the Board of Trustees, which currently has four members, who are also the Directors of the Company.

The Board is advised by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) who delivers operational leadership of Active Listening. A Management Team manages our Volunteers carrying out activities including recruitment, induction and training, continuing development and PR activities. Board members can attend operational meetings at their discretion. The Board meets formally a minimum of four times a year.

Our CEO and Management Team meet monthly. The CEO advises and guides the Board of Trustees on key policy issues and acts as a channel of communication between the Board and all operational Volunteers.

Although the Trustees are responsible for directing the affairs of the charity, they have delegated the operational activity to the Chief Executive Officer and his team. However significant matters are specifically reserved for the Board's decision and cannot be delegated. These include the strategic direction of the charity, the approval of key policies, the approval of operational plans (including significant contractual spend), the approval of budgets and the appointment of the Chief Executive Officer.

Subject to the above, the CEO can approve routine contracts, authorise expenditure and recruit volunteers in a way consistent with the charity’s strategic direction and in line with annual budgets approved by the Board.

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Appointment of Trustees

An individual may be appointed as a Trustee as long as a majority of the board vote in favour of appointment. Appointments are confirmed annually at the AGM.

Induction of Trustees

Following appointment, each Trustee undertakes an induction programme which includes a guide to the vision, values of the charity, the charity's governing documents and the policies of the charity. New Trustees are also encouraged to attend Volunteer and Coordinator events.

New Trustees are encouraged to attend Volunteer and Coordinator training days, meet with volunteers at their monthly team meetings and attend the monthly Management Team Meetings.

Risk Management

The charity operates an annual planning and budget process approved by the Board of Trustees. As an integral part of this process, there is an assessment of key risks facing the Charity and how these risks can be mitigated.

Going Concern

The activities of the charity are dependent on the ongoing financial support of its donors. After reviewing the charities' cash flows for the 2024/25 period, the trustees have a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the period of twelve months from the accounting date of these financial statements. The charity has therefore continued to adopt the going concern basis in preparing its financial statements.

Reserves Policy

In setting the reserves policy the Board of Trustees considers the need to provide against any future income shortfall, fulfil our working capital requirements and allow funds to be available to support team growth and training needs. This has to be balanced against the need to spend reserves now to enable us to provide our listening and signposting services. The Trustees have retained sufficient reserves to allow the charity to operate for the coming year.

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Principal Risks and Uncertainties

The Board of Trustees considers the principal risks and uncertainties for the charity together with the mitigating actions being taken to manage those risks. They are as follows:

Principal risk and uncertainties Mitigating action
Authorisation to receive referrals—Active Developing new procedures and
Listening works in partnership with PSNI streamlining current procedures and
and receives referrals directly from them policies to ensure this process works
effectively for both organisations.
Not being able tomeet the key needs of all Active Listening isfundamentallyabout
our stakeholders including making a positive impact on vulnerable
Volunteers, our funders and our partners. adults in crisis. Howeverwe have to ensure
that volunteers, funders and PSNI needs
are satisfied too, to ensure the survival of
the charity. Communication is key to
ensuring all stakeholders understand why
decisions have been made.
The inability to maintain financial stability The fundraising strategy is focussed on
whilst operating in a highly competitive ensuring that the charity is not reliant on
environment to secure funding. one single source offunding to ensure
its financial sustainability. Expenditure plans
are developed in advance and growth is
controlled to ensure it is
financially sustainable.
Retention and recruitment ofvolunteer Look to develop new avenues of
listeners recruitment and raise the awareness ofthe
work that Active Listening does. At times it
may become necessary to halt referrals to
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Raymond Ross Chair of the Board of Trustees

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Statement of Trustees’ Responsibilities

The Trustees (who are also the directors of the charitable company for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the Trustees Annual Report including the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

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Company and charity law requires the Trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under company law the Trustees must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and of the incoming resources and application of resources. In preparing those financial statements the trustees are required to:

The Trustees are responsible for keeping adequate and proper accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the charity's transactions and 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 (Northern treland) 2008, Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 and with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006.

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They 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. The Trustees are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the charity’s website. Legislation in the UK governing the preparation and dissemination of the financial statements and other information included in annual reports may differ from legislation in other[jurisdictions.][The][Trustees][confirm][that,][so] far as each Trustee is aware, there is no relevant information of which the charity’s independent examiner is unaware, and each Trustee has taken all the steps that he/she ought to have taken as a Trustee in order to make himself/herself aware of any relevant review information and to establish that the charity’s independent examiner is aware of that information.

Approved by the Board of Trustees on (Yah February 2026 and signed. on .its behalf by: | monrol .. navies ions Chair of the Board of Trustees

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Independent Examiner’s Report to the Members and Trustees of Active Listening — - | report on the accounts of the company for the year ended 30 April 2025, which are set out on pages 13 to 19.

Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner

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As the Charities trustees (who are also the directors of the company for the purposes of company law) you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006. Having satisfied myself that the charity is not subject to audit under company law, and is eligible for independent examination, it is my responsibility to:

Basis of independent examiner’s report

| have examined your charity accounts as required under section 65 of Charities Act and my examination was carried out in accordance with the general Directions given by the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland under section 65(9)(b) of the Charities Act. The examination included a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also included consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from you as charity trustees concerning any such matters.

independent examiner’s statement

| have completed my examination and have no concerns in respect of the matters (1) to (4) listed above and, in connection with following the Directions of the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland; | have found no matters that require drawing to your attention.

MrD T&.CarsonMcLaughlin& Co 51-53 Thomas. Street, Ballymena ' Chartered Accountants Co Antrim, BT43 6AZ . Datef/February 2026

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Statement of Financial Activities

Incorporating an Income and Expenditure Account for the year to 30 April 2025

Note Unrestricted Restricted All funds All funds
Funds Funds
2025 2025 2025 2024
£ £ £ £
Income
Donations 3,868 - 3868 1,161
Grants — Public Bodies 2 - - - -
Grants — Other 2 691 - 691 2,250
Interest. 2 - - - -
Total Income 4,559 - 4,559 3,411
Expenditure
Charitable Activities 3 (6,868) - (6,868) (8,746)
Governance 4 (1,421) - (1,421) (1,213)
Total Expenditure (8,289) - (8,289) (9,959)
Net gain/(loss) on
investment		 - . . ° -
Net (Expenditure) /
Income beforetax		 (3,730) " (3,730) (6,548)
Tax Payable - - - -
Net Income/(Expenditure)
aftertax		 5 (3,730) - (3,730) (6,548)
Transfer between funds 11 - - - -
Other recognised
gains/(losses)		 11 . . ” "
Net movement infunds (3,730) - (3,730) (6,548)
Reconciliation offunds:
Total funds brought
forwards		 4,442 2,687 7,129 13,677
Total funds carried forward 11 __— 2,687— —33997129

The Charity has no recognised gains or losses other than those shown above and therefore no separate statement of total recognised gains and losses has been presented. All income and expenditure derive from continuing activities. The notes on pages 16 to 19 form part of the accounts.

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Balance Sheet

As at 30 April 2025 Company registration No. NI602918

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£ £
Fixed Assets :
Tangible Fixed Assets 7 507 2,185
Current Assets ;
Debtors 8 ; 464 472
Cash at bank and in hand 3,659 5,029
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Current Liabilities 5501
Creditors 9 (1,231) ___(557)
Net Current Assets iB92 4 4
Funds
Unrestricted funds 11 712 4,442
Restricted Funds 11 2,687 2,687
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These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to small companies following the small company’s regime and with the Financial Reporting Standard 102 (effective 1 January 2015). For the year ended 30 April 2025 the company was entitled to the exemption from an audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 and that no member or members have requested an audit pursuant to section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.

The directors acknowledge their responsibility for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and for the preparation of the accounts. iw Approved and authorised for issue by the Board of Trustees on ty February 2026 and signed on its behalf by:

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Raymond Ross Chair of Board of Trustees

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Cash Flow Statement

For the year to 30 April 2025

All funds 2025 All funds 2024
£ £
Net (expenditure)/income forthe year (3,730) (6,548)
Adjustment for:
Depreciation 1,678 2,127
Decrease/(increase) in debtors 8 878
(Decrease)/increase in creditors 674 (12)
Interest - -
Net cash generated from operating activities (1,370) (3,555)
Cash flows from operating activities:
Net cash generated from operating activities (1,370) (3,555)
Cash flows from Investing activities:
Interest : -
Purchase of fixed assets : (1,519)
Netcash (used in)/provided by investing activities - __ (1,519)
Change in cash and cash equivalents forthe year ; (1,370) (5,074)
Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the year 5,029 10,103
Cash and cash equivalents at the end ofthe year 3,659 5,029
Cashinhand 3,659 5,029

The notes on pages 16 to 19 form part of the accounts.

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Notes to the Accounts

1. Accounting policies

a) Basis of preparation

The accounts have been prepared on a going concern basis under the historical cost convention. The financial statements are prepared in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS102) (Charities SORP (FRS102)), issued 1 January 2015, the Companies Act 2006, the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008, the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations (Northern treland) 2015 and applicable accounting standards.

b) Fund accounting

Unrestricted funds are funds that are available at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the objectives of the charity and have not been designated for other purposes. Restricted funds are funds which are to be used in accordance with specific restrictions imposed by donors or which have been raised by the charity for specific purposes.

c) Income

All income is included in the Statement of Financial Activities when the charity is legally entitled to the income, there is reasonable certainty of receipt and the amount can be quantified with reasonable accuracy. The following specific policies apply to categories of income:

i) Donations—accounted for when received.

ii) Grants—where income from a grant is received in advance, its recognition is deferred and included in creditors. Where entitlement occurs before income is received, the income is accrued. Capital grants are accounted for as income as soon as they are received.

d) Expenditure

All expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under headings that aggregate all costs related to that category. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to particular headings, they have been allocated to activities on a basis consistent with use of resources. Supports costs have been allocated on the basis of spend on main activities (listening, team set-up and volunteer training) and governance activities.

The following specific policies apply to categories of expenditure:

i) Governance costs—are the costs associated with the governance arrangements of the charity which relate to the general running of the charity as distinguished from those costs associated with charitable activity. Included within this category are costs associated with the strategic management of the charity’s activities. ii) Support Costs—comprise the costs incurred delivering the charity service and infrastructure functions. iii) Depreciation—is calculated ona straight line basis to write off the cost of tangible fixed assets

e) Taxation

Active Listening is a registered charity and is therefore potentially exempt from taxation of its income and gains to the extent they fall within Part 11 of the Corporation Tax Act 2010 and section 256 of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Acts 1992. No tax charge has arisen in the year.

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2.
Income
Donations:
All Funds All Funds
2025 2024
£ £
Individuals
Churches & Corporations		 1,868
2,000		 885
276
3,868 1,161
Grants — Public Bodies:
Grants ~ Other:
All Funds All Funds
2025 2024
£ £
NIE Communities - 1,500
CPA 441 -
Enkalon Foundation : 500
Donibristle Trust 250 250
691 2,250
3.
Expenditure—Charitable Activities
This is broken down bythree main activities: listening, volunteer training andteam set-up.
Direct Costs Support Costs All Funds All Funds
2025 2025 2025 2024
£ £ £ £
Listening 3,349 3,181 6,530 7,561
Volunteer
Training		 7 - 314 314 1,012
Team Set-up 24 - 24 173
Advertising - : - -
3,373 _ 3,495 6,868 8,746
4. Expenditure—Governance ,
All expenditure on governance is direct expenditure and is broken down as follows:
All Funds All Funds
: Note 2025 2024
£ £
, Accountancy Fees 5 180 180
Board of Trustees - -
Insurance 983 885
Security 123 -
Subscriptions 135 148
1,421 1,213

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5. Net Income / (Expenditure) before tax

This is stated after charging:

All Funds All Funds All Funds
2025 _ 2024
£ £
External Examiner— DT Carson 180 180
Depreciation 1,678 2,127
Bank charges 35 36
Penaltiesandfines 375 -

The Directors of the charitable company are the trustees under charity law and receive no remuneration. It is the policy of the charity to reimburse volunteer expenses in full. During the year no trustees (2024:0) received reimbursement for travel to attend meetings, telephony and other incidentals (in 2025 the total expenses claimed by trustees for these purposes were £nil).

  1. Staff Costs Active Listening does not employ any staff members and our services are fully provided by volunteers. ,

7. Tangible Fixed Assets

Office Equipment IT Equipment & All funds
Mobile Phones
£ £ £
Cost
At 1 May 2024 1,048 12,115 13,163
Additions
Disposals		 -
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:		 -
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At 30 April 2025 1,048 ‘12,115 13,163
Depreciation ;
At 1 May 2024 1,048 9,930 10,978
Charge for the year - 1,678 1,678
Disposals - - -
Impairment charges - - -
At 30 April 2025 1,048 11,608 12,656
Net Book Value
At 30 April 2025 : 507 507
At 30 April 2024 - 2,185 2,185
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Debtors
All Funds All Funds
2025 2024
£ £
Trade Debtors - -
Prepayments 464 472
- 464 472

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9. Creditors

All Funds All Funds
2025 2024
£ £
Trade Creditors 511 17.
Accruals 720 540
1,231 557

10. Financial and other commitments

The charity has no financial or other commitments.

11.Reconciliation of reserves

As at Income Expenditure Expenditure Transfers Transfers Net gain on As at
30 April 2024 between investment 30 April 2025
fund
£ £ £ £ £ £
Unrestricted
General Fund 4,442 4,559 (8,289) - - 712
Total
Unrestricted		 4,442
Restricted
Otherfunds 2,687 - : - - 2,687
Total Restricted 2,687 - - - - 2,687
Total Funds __ 7,129 4,559 (8,289) ee 399
Gener Restricted
Funds		 Totalfunds
2025		 Totalfunds funds
2024
£ £ £ £
Represented by:
Tangible fixed assets 507 - 507 2,185
CurrentAssets 1,436 2,687 4,123 5,501
Liabilities
Total		 (1,231)
712		 -
2,687		 (1,231)
3,339		 (557)
7,129

a) Unrestricted Funds—General Fund

These funds are held available for the ordinary purposes of the charity.

b) Restricted funds—Other Funds

These funds represent a number of donations received which carry specific restrictions imposed by the do nor. They are mainly received from Corporate or Trust donors.

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Reference and Administrative Details

Founder Mike Elwood Chair Raymond Ross CEO Sam Wilson Patrons Ray and Sandra Elwood

Company Name Active Listening

Registered Office

59 Old Galgorm Road, Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, BT42 1AN

Northern Ireland Charity Number NIC 100324

Company Number

NI602918

Website

www.activelistening.org.uk

Board of Trustees

Jill Brown (appointed 29 May 2024), Jennifer Hood, Philip McCartney and Raymond Ross (Chair)

Company Secretary

Sam Wilson

Bankers

Danske Bank, Ballymena Branch, 1-2 Broadway, Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, BT43 7AA

External Examiner and Accountant

DT Carson & Co, 51-53 Thomas Street, Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, BT43 6AZ

Solicitors

A&L Goodbody, 42/46 Fountain Street, Belfast, Northern Ireland, BT1 5EF

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Donors and Supporters

We are extremely grateful to all supporters.

Every donation we receive and every hour given by our voiunteers helps us to provide a listening and signposting service to vulnerable adults in Northern Ireland. Our supporters include:

Companies and organisations A&L Goodbody MCC Computers Ltd Donibristle Trust Belfast Cathedral Halifax Grant Foundation Enkalon Foundation Benefact Trust Leatherseller Foundation 2™ Limavady Presbyterian Church CPA

Statutory and similar bodies

Police Service of Northern Ireland

And donors who wish to remain anonymous.

We are grateful to all those individuals who have generously supported Active Listening.

And finally a huge thank you to everyone who volunteers for Active Listening.

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Active Listening registered office 59 Old Galgorm Road Ballymena County Antrim BT42 1AN @ 07592 944 807 help@alni.org.uk

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