DOWN'S SYNDROME ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1061474 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DOWNS SYNDROME ASSOCIATION, DSA

We provide information and support for people with Down's syndrome, their families and carers, and the professionals who work with them.We strive to improve knowledge of the condition.We champion the rights of people with Down's syndrome.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £267,635 for the year ended 31 March 2025, compared to a deficit in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, free reserves amount to £1.7m, which the trustees consider adequate to fund activities for the foreseeable future.

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 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from Over £60,000 (FY2024) to £60,001 - £70,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Down's Syndrome Association (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Carol Boys — Chief Executive (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Big Yellow Foundation — “One example of this is the support for the WorkFit programme by the Big Yellow Foundation . The employment programme brings together employe…” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 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 ~8.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 14.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (18/01/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (27/01/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DARREN WARKCUP
• Dr JOHN GERARD COGHLAN
• Professor Anthony J Holland
• ROBERT STIRLING
• SARAH LEGGAT
• TREVOR PEARCY

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 DOWN SYNDROME INTERNATIONAL.

• DOWN SYNDROME INTERNATIONAL income £389k
• DOWN SYNDROME UK income £455k
• DOWN SYNDROME TRAINING AND SUPPORT SERVICE LIMITED income £236k
• DOWNRIGHT EXCELLENT income £224k
• DOWN'S SOUTH LONDON income £132k
• UPS AND DOWNS SOUTH WEST income £309k

Side by side with its peers

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