SPINAL INJURIES ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1054097 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SIA

SIA is a national charity working on behalf of spinal cord injured people tohelp, support, advise and campaign on all aspects of spinal cord injury.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a planned deficit of £100,095 for the year, which was managed through the strategic use of designated reserves. The trustees confirm that free unrestricted reserves of £1.160 million remain within the stated policy target range of £1.1 million to £1.4 million, ensuring sufficient resources to meet liabilities as they fall due.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Spinal Injuries Association (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).

• James Dyson Foundation — “This Summer we are giving you, our members and supporters, a chance to win one of our fantastic prizes kindly donated by the James Dyson Fou…” (source page)
• Eurostar International Limited — “This Summer we are giving you, our members and supporters, a chance to win one of our fantastic prizes kindly donated by the James Dyson Fou…” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 22.2% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/05/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (21/11/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (22/12/1997) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anthony Henderson
• Faisal Hussain
• Gareth Hillier
• Ian Bancroft Anderson
• James Wood
• Paul Williams
• Richard John Brindley
• Sarah Georgina Ashby
• Stephanie Whitmore

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with INTERNATIONAL SPINAL RESEARCH TRUST.

• INTERNATIONAL SPINAL RESEARCH TRUST income £3.4m
• SPIRIT (SPINAL PARALYSIS AND INJURIES RESEARCH INFORMATION AND TRAINING) income £186k
• THE NICHOLLS SPINAL INJURY FOUNDATION income £262k
• STOKE MANDEVILLE SPINAL RESEARCH income £167k
• ASPIRE ( ASSOCIATION FOR SPINAL INJURY RESEARCH REHABILITATION AND REINTEGRATION ) income £3.9m
• ASSOCIATION FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY income £333k

Side by side with its peers

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