National health and social care charity Change Grow Live (CGL) has reported a £23m increase in its income to £307m, its highest in at least the past five years.
According to its latest set of accounts for the year to 31 March 2024, the charity’s income rose from £284m the year before, an 8.1% increase.
The increase was largely thanks to the charity receiving funding from Dame Carol Black’s drug strategy, designed to support the work that CGL does around drug addiction rehabilitation.
Income and expenditure increase
Most of the charity’s income (£302m) came from its health and social care services, a £22.7m increase from 2022-23.
CGL also received £105,000 of its income from donations and legacies, a £23,000 decrease from 2022-23.
The charity’s expenditure also grew by £26m to £310m, a 9.3% increase compared to 2023-23.
This was driven by a £27.3m increase in spending on health and social care services, to £307m overall.
Staff costs overall were up by over £25m, with a rise in wage and salary costs from £151m to £175m and an increase in redundancy costs from £82,000 to £122,000.
The report notes that “as in previous years, we awarded a salary uplift to all employees to help reduce the impact of the continued high levels of inflation in the UK”.
Prun Bijral, CGL’s medical director, remained its highest-paid member of staff, earning a base salary of £218,000 in 2023-24, a £4,000 increase from the year before.
Chief executive Mark Moody also received a £4,000 pay rise, receiving a base salary of £192,000 in 2023-24.
CEO: ‘We now have some of the lowest central costs in our history’
Moody wrote in the introduction to the accounts that CGL now has “some of the lowest central costs in our history, meaning more of our resources are focused on frontline delivery”.
He said the charity had adapted to a new government and ongoing pressures on public finances and services.
“Over the past 12 months we’ve anticipated and adapted to this new environment by looking at the way our charity operates, and by continuing to deliver the best possible care for people who access Change Grow Live’s services,” he said.
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