ASSOCIATION FOR REHABILITATION OF COMMUNICATION AND ORAL SKILLS

Registered charity 1007416 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ARCOS

ARCOS' overall objective is to improve the quality of life for people who have communication and/or swallowing difficulties, and of their carers and families. This involves the promotion and provision of specialist training, comprehensive therapy and suitable research.

Objects

TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS WHO HAVE COMMUNICATION DIFFICULTIES PARTICULARLY THROUGH THE PROVISION OF TREATMENT EDUCATION AND SUPPORT.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that ARCOS achieved a financial surplus of £40,340 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income of £343,875 against expenditure of £303,535. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £67,893, which the Trustees consider appropriate and equivalent to approximately three months of essential expenditure. The Trustees report that the charity has adequate resources to continue its operations and manage principal risks.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — ARCOS (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ann Gillian Courtney
• Diana Ruth Maiden MBE
• Dr Andrew Gallagher
• Helen Clare Webb
• Jonathan Andrew Kelway Gurney
• Maurice Stanley · trustee of 1 other charity

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Germany · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).