THE INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES TRUST

Registered charity 1058284 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as I D D T, INDEPENDENT DIABETES TRUST

education and raising awareness of diabetes and choice of insulins

Objects

1) RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF INSULIN USERS AND THEIR CARERS, (ESPECIALLY THOSE USERS EXPERIENCING DIFFICULTY WITH HUMAN INSULIN) BY THE PROVISION OF CARE AND SUPPORT; 2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF PATIENTS, CARERS AND PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE LOOKING AFTER THOSE WITH DIABETES, THE DEPT OF HEALTH AND OTHER RELEVANT BODIES; 3) TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE OBJECTIVE AND BALANCED RESEARCH AND SURVEYS INTO HUMAN INSULIN AND ITS EFFECTS AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS OF ANY SUCH RESEARCH OR SURVEYS

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 unrestricted reserves stood at £2,383,869, a decrease from the previous year's £2,552,879, while total expenditure exceeded income resulting in a net loss. The Trustees confirmed the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern despite economic impacts. Research funding was suspended to safeguard the financial future of the charity.

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
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — InDependent Diabetes Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jennifer Mary Dixon Hirstchair
• Abban Qayyum
• Dr Mabel Blades
• JOHN BIRBECK
• Karen Merrey
• Kenneth Heard
• gill coleman

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DIABETES CARE TRUST (ABCD) LIMITED.

• DIABETES CARE TRUST (ABCD) LIMITED income £391k
• THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR PEDIATRIC AND ADOLESCENT DIABETES income £1.1m
• THE NOVO NORDISK UK RESEARCH FOUNDATION income £331k
• THE INSTITUTE OF COMMERCIAL MANAGEMENT LIMITED income £1.1m
• THE CANCER TREATMENT AND RESEARCH TRUST CIO income £502k
• PRIMARY CARE DIABETES SOCIETY income £169k

Side by side with its peers

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