DEMAND DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE FOR DISABILITY

Registered charity 1008128 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DEMAND

We design and make equipment for people with disabilities where existing solutions are either inaccessible or inadequate. We also provide an equipment sign-posting service. We improve & repair equipment already in use, and we encourage interest in design for disability through close ties with universities & via annual student placements enabling students to develop people centred design skills

Objects

THE RELIEF OF DISABLED, HANDICAPPED OR INFIRM PERSONS

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 · Amateur Sport · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Enfield, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred an operating loss of £178,172 for the year ended 31 December 2025, reducing total funds to £833,321. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £281,658, with the general fund equivalent to approximately 4.5 months' expenditure, which falls within the charity's policy of maintaining 3 to 12 months of cover. The trustees confirmed adequate resources to continue as a going concern, citing substantial liquid resources of £500,803 in cash and £319,346 in short-term investments.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Gerald Edelman LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — DEMAND (Design And Manufacture For Disability) (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Abbots Langley Tough 10 — “With thanks to our corporate and community donors in 2017 to date. Abbots Langley Tough 10” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Stephen Millerchair
• KATHERINE WHITE
• NEIL JAMES CHITTY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Victoria Lyons

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DESIGNABILITY CHARITY LIMITED.

• DESIGNABILITY CHARITY LIMITED income £1.9m
• THE DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION income £1.3m
• HELPING DISABILITIES TRUST income £131k
• DESIGN FOR GOOD income £932k
• DISABILITY FOCUS income £603k
• THE DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTRE income £576k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.