Kaleidoscope Project

Kaleidescope is an internationally recognised drugs service providing treatment and testing to clients on its own sites. The project is a passionate advocate of the rights of drug users to receive quality services in an hospitable environment. It aims to promote social inclusion and makes innovative contributions to the well being of the whole community. Respect and hospitality are the cornerstone

In the charity's own words, from the register.

In Wales

• Throughout Wales

Elsewhere

• Wirral

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined.

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £19,463,197 and spent £20,178,788.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Up 91%, from £10,208,854 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £19,463,197 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 104% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 1 of the 5 years shown.

Money from government

88% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025 came from government grants and contracts (£17,220,582).

Largest funder

GDAS Harm Reduction gave £241,995 in the year to 31 March 2024, 1% of that year's income.Read by AI from the charity's accounts.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 31 March 2025: £362,079 from 5 grants. Government contracts: £16,858,503 from 11 contracts.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 March 2024, the charity named 4 funders who gave £311,808 between them. £18,613 of that came from public bodies.

These figures were read from the accounts the charity filed with the Charity Commission by Claude, an AI model, in OpenEconomy's accounts reader. AI can misread a table, so check the accounts on the register before relying on a figure.

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Funders that publish to 360Giving list 7 grants to this charity since 2006, worth at least £289,410.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

Public bodies' published spending shows 11 payments to this charity worth £157,459 between 26 January 2024 and 7 May 2026.

Councils and Welsh Government publish what they pay suppliers and grant holders above a threshold, usually £500 for councils and £25,000 for Welsh Government, so smaller payments are missing. A payment is shown only when OpenEconomy matched it to this charity with certainty. These figures come from the payer's records. They are a separate measure from the charity's own accounts, 360Giving grants and its annual return, and are never added to them.

Senedd and Welsh Government records that name this charity, gathered by OpenSenedd. Newest first.

• 24 November 2021

  Named by Jayne Bryant in the Senedd

  The Kaleidoscope project, based in my constituency, has been operating in the UK since 1968. They're a charity methadone drug clinic that provides help and support clinics for alcohol abuse, drug abuse and drug addiction. When speaking with the director, Martin Blakebrough, on this subject, he had t…

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9 trustees run the charity.

• Dr Ann Marie ProcterChairAppointed 19 June 2019
• Alison LewisAppointed 22 November 2024
• Catherine Marie Pepinster
• Julian Mark Quentin KnightAppointed 14 September 2015
• Kasim AliAppointed 9 September 2021
• Kirsty Anne Myfanwy Davies-WarnerAppointed 19 February 2026
• Lewis Philip GwytherAppointed 24 September 2026
• Mark Alan TudorAppointed 1 October 2020
• Prof Eldon Michael Waldo MaguireAppointed 19 February 2025

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 4 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1115017

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

30 June 2006

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 14 JUNE 2005 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 5 APRIL 2006. as amended on 09 Oct 2024 as amended on 05 Mar 2025

Company number

05480423This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.kaleidoscope68.orgAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Cardiff

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Funding from accounts: the charity's filed accounts, read by OpenEconomy's AI accounts reader on 1 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Payments from public bodies: each body's own published spending data, matched to the charity by OpenEconomy. 5 public bodies' data is included so far.
• In the Senedd and Welsh Government: records gathered by OpenSenedd and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 5 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

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