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.
Causes: Education/training · Disability · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts
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
Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy (held: £3k; policy: three months of unrestricted expenditure)
“Our unrestricted funds at 31st March 2025 are £3,118 (£4,049 2024).”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.
Corporate structure
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.
- 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
Common questions
Is PEOPLE FIRST (SELF ADVOCACY) financially healthy?
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. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.
Who funds PEOPLE FIRST (SELF ADVOCACY)?
Funders whose own accounts filings name PEOPLE FIRST (SELF ADVOCACY) as a grant recipient include TRUST FOR LONDON, MISS E F RATHBONE CHARITABLE TRUST.
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