Helen Arkell Dyslexia Charity

Registered charity 1064646 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE HELEN ARKELL DYSLEXIA CENTRE

The Helen Arkell Dyslexia Centre directly helps dyslexic individuals of all ages, trains and assists professionals to help dyslexic individuals, and gives guidance to schools, colleges and other institutions on how to help dyslexic individuals.

Objects

(A) TO PROVIDE FOR THE CARE, EDUCATION AND TREATMENT OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM DYSLEXIA OR ANY OTHER RELATED SPECIFIC LEARNING DISABILITY;(B) TO FURTHER THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, TEACHERS AND OTHER RELATED PROFESSIONS ABOUT DYSLEXIA AND OTHER RELATED SPECIFIC LEARNING DISABILITIES AND TO EDUCATE AND TRAIN THE PUBLIC, TEACHERS AND OTHER RELATED PROFESSIONS ABOUT THE CARE, EDUCATION AND TREATMENT OF SUCH PERSONS; AND(C) TO CARRY OUT RESEARCH INTO DYSLEXIA AND OTHER RELATED SPECIFIC LEARNING DISABILITIES AND TO DISSEMINATE THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Waverley, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a net deficit of £134,553 for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in unrestricted reserves falling to £39,818. This figure is significantly below the trustees' stated policy target of £150,000 to £200,000. The trustees confirm the charity is a going concern, citing an approved budget and working capital availability, while noting that trading in the first six months of the new year indicates they are on track to meet the 2026 budget.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Shaw Gibbs Audit Ltd. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £80,001 - £90,000 (FY2024) to £60,001 - £70,000 (FY2025).
• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).

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

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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Helen Arkell Dyslexia Charity (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• Big Give — “Help Us Unlock Funding Through the Big Give Christmas Challenge” (source page)
• Theo Paphitis — “A huge thank you to Theo Paphitis, Ryman, and the wider Theo Paphitis Retail Group (TPRG), with their partners” (source page)
• Ryman — “A huge thank you to Theo Paphitis, Ryman, and the wider Theo Paphitis Retail Group (TPRG), with their partners” (source page)
• Theo Paphitis Retail Group — “A huge thank you to Theo Paphitis, Ryman, and the wider Theo Paphitis Retail Group (TPRG), with their partners” (source page)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (81% 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: 7.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Sutton
• Dr Jennie Guise
• Jonathan Charles Hetherington · trustee of 2 other charities
• Katrina Cochrane
• Laura Anthony
• Liam McLaughlin
• Michael-John Albert
• Peter Watson
• Simon Hepher
• William Malcolm

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 THE DYSLEXIA TEACHING CENTRE.

• THE DYSLEXIA TEACHING CENTRE income £62k
• THE BRITISH DYSLEXIA ASSOCIATION income £2.2m
• DYSLEXIA CORNWALL income £4k
• THE DYSLEXIA ASSOCIATION income £468k
• MADE BY DYSLEXIA income £980k
• REACH LEARNING DISABILITY income £3.9m

Side by side with its peers

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