PEOPLE FIRST (SELF ADVOCACY)

Registered charity 1057354 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

People First is an organisation run by and for people with learning difficulties to raise awareness of and campaign for the rights of people with learning difficulties and to support self advocacy groups across the country.

Objects

(A) TO ADVANCE AND PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES IN SELF-ADVOCACY AND ALL RELATED AREAS (B) TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION ABOUT THE EDUCATIONAL, PHYSICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND EMOTIONAL NEEDS OF SUCH PEOPLE (C) TO CARRY OUT, PROMOTE OR ASSIST IN PROMOTING RESEARCH INTO ALL ASPECTS OF SUCH NEEDS AND TO DISSEMINATE THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with total funds of £19,543, an increase from the previous year's £11,599. Total incoming resources decreased to £161,559 from £200,242, while total expenditure fell to £153,615 from £190,952. The trustees report no material doubts regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, citing confirmed funding for the next 12 to 18 months.

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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03134827

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.

• KANE, Janet Anne — director, appointed 28/10/2025on trustee list
• BARRETT, Maria Denise — director, appointed 28/10/2025on trustee list
• AL-JUBEH, Firielle — director, appointed 28/10/2025not on trustee list
• WILSON, Kweku Aswin — director, appointed 16/01/2023on trustee list
• EDWARDS, Bella Francesca — director, appointed 18/08/2017on trustee list
• CLAIRE, Marie Emma — director, appointed 02/03/2016on trustee list
• SPOONER, Christine Pauline — director, appointed 19/04/2009on trustee list
• BRACKLEY, Kate — director, appointed 19/04/2009on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHRISTINE SPOONERchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• BELLA FRANCESCA EDWARDS
• Firielle Al Jubeh
• Janet Anne Kane
• KATE BRACKLEY
• Maria Denise Barrett
• Marie Emma Claire
• kweku aswin wilson

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRADFORD PEOPLE FIRST.

• BRADFORD PEOPLE FIRST income £77k
• MANCHESTER PEOPLE FIRST income £215k
• PEMBROKESHIRE PEOPLE FIRST income £719k
• PEOPLE FIRST MERSEYSIDE COMPANY LIMITED income £185k
• CAERPHILLY PEOPLE FIRST income £84k
• CORNWALL PEOPLE FIRST income £126k

Side by side with its peers

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