Norfolk and Norwich SEND Association

Registered charity 1027466 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NANSA, NORFOLK & NORWICH SCOPE, NORFOLK AND NORWICH SCOPE ASSOCIATION

Nansa aims to be a catalyst for real change, across Norfolk, for those living with, or caring for others with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND). Nansa was founded in 1954 for the purposes of providing meaningful and enriching activities for adults with cerebral palsy. Nansa has since grown to provide a wide range of specialist provision, for people of all ages living with SEND.

Objects

For the public benefit, the promotion of specialist provision for people of all ages residing in Norfolk and living with, or caring for others with special educational needs and/or disabilities, as well as neurologically diverse individuals, who may feel excluded, marginalised or unsupported because of social, behavioural and/or developmental differences (hereinafter referred to collectively as ‘SEND’) in particular but not exclusively by facilitating a range of projects that promote inclusion, advocacy, participation, accessibility, and awareness

Area of benefit: NORFOLK AND NORWICH

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net deficit of £30,541 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by a significant deficit on restricted funds. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £413,150, which is below the stated policy target of approximately £455,776 (equivalent to three months of annual expenditure). Despite this, the trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MA Partners Audit LLP. Discloses 5 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02854806

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Leon Knight-Smith — CEO (source)
• Ann Wootton — Director of Finance and Business Support (source)
• Michelle Dungar — Director of Adults’ Services (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• SNARY, Lisa Claire — director, appointed 23/05/2022on trustee list
• MITCHELL, Elaine — director, appointed 14/08/2019on trustee list
• SMITH, Margaret Anne — director, appointed 07/10/2015on trustee list
• SORRELL, John Patrick — director, appointed 18/06/2015on trustee list
• DOY, Gillian Ann — director, appointed 01/08/1995on trustee list
• WOOTTON, Ann — secretary, appointed 01/03/2023

Official officers record.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (61% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 20.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/06/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Elaine Mitchell · trustee of 1 other charity
• GILLIAN DOY
• John Sorrell
• Lisa Snary
• Margaret Smith

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

Operates in: Norfolk

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS (NASEN).

• THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS (NASEN) income £3.9m
• SPECIAL NEEDS ENTERPRISES (NORFOLK) LIMITED income £332k
• ANSAAR income £163k
• THE NOT FORGOTTEN ASSOCIATION (NFA) income £1.3m
• THE CENTRE FOR SPECIALIST EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE income £159k
• LD:NORTHEAST income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

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