REAL DPO LTD

Registered charity 1061671 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DISABILITY COALITION - TOWER HAMLETS, REAL, TOWER HAMLETS COALITION OF DISABLED PEOPLE

Real supports disabled people and people with long term health conditions in Tower Hamlets, to live as independently as they chose, and obtain full rights and privileges as citizens, in accordance with the social model of disability and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. We deliver advocacy, information and advice, and engagement and community voice projects

Objects

FOR THE RELIEF OF DISABLED PEOPLE IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF TOWER HAMLETS AND THE SURROUNDING BOROUGHS WITHIN GREATER LONDON TO ENABLE THEM TO OBTAIN THEIR FULL RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES AS CITIZENS AND TO OBTAIN THEIR INHERENT RIGHT TO LIFE ON AN EQUAL BASIS WITH OTHERS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SOCIAL MODEL OF DISABILITY AND THE UN CONVENTION FOR DISABLED PEOPLE

Area of benefit: LONDON BOROUGH OF TOWER HAMLETS AND SURROUNDING BOROUGHS WITHIN GREATER LONDON

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · 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 reported a net surplus of £47,893 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £159,024. Per the trustees' report, this level of reserves is considered sufficient to cover potential shortfalls and manage unexpected expenditure, exceeding the stated policy target of three to six months of core operating costs. The organization remains financially stable with no material uncertainties identified regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Kingston Burrowes Audit Ltd. 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 20/04/2023, 79 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.5 months of spending — below 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: 1.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Kevin Burbidge
• Fatima Noor
• Giiasiddin Bakhtovarshoiev
• Grenville Rupert Stanley Bingham
• Ismet Aykan Akkayagil
• Nari Ahn
• Professor Alan John Drew · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Tower Hamlets

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with REAL LIFE OPTIONS.

• REAL LIFE OPTIONS income £55.6m
• DISABILITY ADVICE SERVICE LAMBETH income £629k
• REAL DEAL PLUS LIMITED income £38k
• REACH LEARNING DISABILITY income £3.9m
• HELPING DISABILITIES TRUST income £131k
• DISABILITY RIGHTS UK income £2.2m

Side by side with its peers

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