Prepared for Collective Voice by Adrian Taylor, 2026-10-05. If you work there and would rather this page came down, say so and it comes down.
Collective Voice: what the records show, and what we could do together
Adrian Taylor runs Charity in a Box, after twenty years working in charities and public services. About Adrian.
1. What you say, and where we read it
We read your website (Homepage - Collective Voice) and your public channels.
“We believe that anyone in England with a substance use problem should be able to access evidence-based and person-centred support to keep them safe and enable them to make the change they want to see in their lives.” (collectivevoice.org.uk/about-us)
“We work with policy-makers and campaigning organisations to advocate for the importance of treatment and recovery — and the vital role that charities play in delivering it.” (collectivevoice.org.uk/about-us)
“We work with providers, officials, people with lived experience and commissioners to ‘build the field’ by sharing information, supporting connection and fostering innovation.” (collectivevoice.org.uk/about-us)
Your channels: x (closed to readers, not read); linkedin (closed to readers, not read).
2. Drug and alcohol services, from outside
40 charities are in the field by name or membership. 2,559 other charities say in their own latest report that they serve the same people.
Drug and alcohol services40 charities
Education/training1,418
Poverty relief1,130
General charitable purposes1,022
Health932
Religious activities689
Economic/community developme…685
Disability685
Housing472
Other purposes413
Arts, culture, heritage, sci…300
Young people111
Mental health55
Homelessness53
Food aid51
Unpaid carers46
Veterans35
Youth centres27
Local infrastructure27
the fieldother charities naming its people, by register purposeof those, in another field on this site
Your members against the rest of the field
Measure
Members
Rest of the field
Fragile (share)
75%
38%
Government-dependent (share)
88%
19%
Reserves, months (median)
1.2
4.6
Income change over returns, % (median)
58.7
19.8
Report names the people (share)
100%
84%
Areas with little or no presence of your network, those with the most residents on low incomes first: Middlesbrough, Sandwell, Enfield, Blackburn with Darwen, Wolverhampton, Hartlepool, Nottingham, Salford, Ealing, Islington.
Researchers who studied how charities support people with dementia across the United Kingdom concluded:
“National and local data sources could help charities and commissioners begin to identify inequalities of provision.”
Mayrhofer, Goodman, Lafortune, Smeeton, Littlechild, Shora and Bunn, Voluntary Sector Review, first published 2021. Read the paper.
This page is that view for your field.
3. Sample campaign
Three posts in your voice from the figures above, each with its picture, ready to use. Every figure is from public information and no charity is named.
Bluesky / X: 2,559 charities outside drug and alcohol services say in their own reports that they serve the same people, against 40 in the field. Who they are, by what they do: https://www.charityinabox.uk/offers/collective-voice.html
LinkedIn: 2,559 charities outside drug and alcohol services say in their own reports that they serve the same people, against 40 in the field. Who they are, by what they do: https://www.charityinabox.uk/offers/collective-voice.html
Built from public information; no charity is named.
Bluesky / X: 75% of the network's members show under three months' reserves or three years of deficits, against 38% of the rest of the field. https://www.charityinabox.uk/offers/collective-voice.html
LinkedIn: 75% of the network's members show under three months' reserves or three years of deficits, against 38% of the rest of the field. https://www.charityinabox.uk/offers/collective-voice.html
Built from public information; no charity is named.
Bluesky / X: 48 of England's 152 county and unitary areas have little or no presence of the network for the people counted there; Middlesbrough, Sandwell, Enfield first. https://www.charityinabox.uk/offers/collective-voice.html
LinkedIn: 48 of England's 152 county and unitary areas have little or no presence of the network for the people counted there; Middlesbrough, Sandwell, Enfield first. https://www.charityinabox.uk/offers/collective-voice.html
Built from public information; no charity is named.
What your field can't see from inside it: the page on our site, in full, refreshed each quarter.
£1,500, £4,000 or £9,000 a year, by your income band, never negotiated
The members' licence
Each of your members gets its own view: where it stands beside the rest of the field, what is thin in its area, who else is at work there.
included in the year
A campaign from the findings
Posts and pictures in your voice from your field's own figures, for your channels.
£250 a month
The first month: a twenty-minute call, your page in full within a week, and the first campaign posts the week after. Prices are set by income band from the public register and are the same for everyone in the band.
5. How to say yes
Reply to the email with a day that suits, call or text Adrian on the number in the email (it is on the Contact page too), or write to adrian@charityinabox.uk.
What this can and cannot say. These are counts over groups of charities and places from their own returns and reports and from national statistics. They do not rank any charity, name any, or say why. A thin field is one where the known network is thin for the people counted here, not one where nobody is helped.
Built from public information: the Charity Commission for England and Wales register and the annual reports charities file with it (OGL v3.0); Census 2021 (ONS); the English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG); the Claimant Count (ONS). Privacy.
