Herts Ability Limited

Registered charity 1059015 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HAD, HERTFORDSHIRE ACTION ON DISABILITY, HERTFORDSHIRE ASSOCIATION FOR THE DISABLED, HERTS ACTION ON DISABILITY, Herts Ability

Herts Ability provides services to disabled people in Hertfordshire and the surrounding counties. Driving Tuition and Assessment for disabled drivers.Equipment, advice and retail service. Information and advice.Benefits Advice.

Objects

To relieve and assist people with physical and cognitive difficulties, as well as those people with reduced mobility, or those who may be vulnerable to such conditions by reason of age or illness, in any way which shall, for the time being, be charitable in law. We will do this by: (a) promoting the improvement of standards of driving, and the advancement of road safety and travel; (b) the provision and assessment of equipment; (c) providing advice and signposting to clients, which could provide a springboard to other activities; and (d) promoting and organising co-operation with other authorities and voluntary organisations in the achievement of the above objectives.

Area of benefit: PRIMARILY IN THE COUNTY OF HERTFORD

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

Causes: Disability · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a trading surplus of £3,482 and unrestricted reserves of £385,067, which the trustees consider to be at a manageable level of 6.2 months of expenditure. While the charity acknowledges a tough funding environment and the cessation of some government grants, it confirms that going concern is an appropriate basis for the accounts.

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
• 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 — Herts Ability (matched by registered charity number).

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Nigel Thomas Dotchinchair
• Amy Garrison
• Andrew Picken OBE · trustee of 2 other charities
• Bethany McNeil
• Dr Alka Chandrayan
• Patricia Anne Read
• Vivien Arey

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

Operates in: Barnet · Bedford · Buckinghamshire · Cambridgeshire · Enfield · Essex · Hertfordshire · Hillingdon · Luton · Throughout London

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Helping Herts.

• Helping Herts income £277k
• Enable Ability income £1.6m
• CanalAbility income £305k
• London Ability income £1.4m
• HERTSMERE MENCAP income £183k
• DIVERSE ABILITIES PLUS LTD. income £10.4m

Side by side with its peers

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