The Stroke and Wellness Foundation

Registered charity 1054049 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CLACTON AND DISTRICT STROKE ASSOCIATION, TENDRING SPECIALIST STROKE SERVICES

A local independent charity caring for tendring stroke survivors, their families & carers. Assist in any way possible during recovery, rehabilitation & in the long term. Activities provided on a daily basis within a social setting. Press for improvements in service, for stroke survivors & strive to increase public awareness of stroke & resulting trauma. Promote healthy lifestyle via education/info

Objects

THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AMONGST PERSONS WHO HAVE SUFFERED A STOKE IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL AND THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITIES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS.

Area of benefit: NORTH EAST ESSEX

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

Registered contact address: Tendring, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £9,547 for the year ended 31 March 2025, reversing a deficit in the prior year. Total funds increased to £340,928, with unrestricted reserves of £242,080, which the trustees consider sufficient to continue operations for the foreseeable future.

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.

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
• 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

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

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 06/02/2023, 6 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03167424

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.

• BYRNE, Denise Mary — director, appointed 13/05/2026on trustee list
• JONES, Karen Elizabeth — director, appointed 13/05/2026on trustee list
• ROSS, Andrew — director, appointed 10/04/2024on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Ross
• Denise Byrne
• Karen Jones
• Sheila Ward

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with STROKE ASSOCIATION.

• STROKE ASSOCIATION income £44.4m
• SUCCESS AFTER STROKE income £306k
• DIFFERENT STROKES (TRUSTEES) LIMITED income £486k
• CARMARTHEN STROKE CLUB income £34k
• LEEK STROKE CLUB income £27k
• STROKE SURVIVORS SPEECH & LANGUAGE SUPPORT GROUP income £31k

Side by side with its peers

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