ITP SUPPORT ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1064480 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as I.T.P SUPPORT ASSOCIATION

The ITP Support Association provides information and support to those with ITP and their families. Run primarily by volunteers with just one paid part-time worker it publishes a quarterly newsletter, provides numerous ITP publications, organises annual patient conventions, seminars for health professionals and funds research into the causes and best management of this frightening disease.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS OF PERSONS WITH IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA AND IN PARTICULAR TO PROMOTE, IMPROVE DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN THE GENERAL WELFARE OF ITP PATIENTS AND THE FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH ITP

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.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bedford, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £40,760 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted funds of £370,161. The trustees report that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue to operate. All income and expenditure for the year related to unrestricted funds.

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 4 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2024 (received 17/02/2025, 17 days after the 31/01/2025 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 09/04/2022, 68 days after the 31/01/2022 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — ITP Support Association (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Prof Adrian Newland CBEchair
• Agne Zice
• Professor Nichola Cooper
• Richard Andrew Blake

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with INTERNATIONAL AID TRUST.

• INTERNATIONAL AID TRUST income £1.1m
• THE IFA/IPA GROUP BENEVOLENT FUND income £50k
• THE INTEGRATION TRUST LIMITED income £395k
• TURNER SYNDROME SUPPORT SOCIETY income £220k
• THE INSTITUTE OF TRAFFIC ACCIDENT INVESTIGATORS income £129k
• PAPER INDUSTRY TECHNICAL ASSOCIATION income £390k

Side by side with its peers

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