Chesterfield and District Society for People with a Disability

Registered charity 1066584 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ABILITY, CHESTERFIELD AND DISTRICT SOCIETY FOR PEOPLE WITH A LEARNING DISABILITY

Services provided include health and social care provision, crisis outreach services for children and young adults, day services for elderly people, the development of independent living skills for young people and various community activities.Respite services and supported living.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE CARE, TREATMENT AND EDUCATION OF PEOPLE WITH A DISABILITY WITHIN CHESTERFIELD AND THE SURROUNDING AREA (WITHIN A RADIUS OF 30 MILES) FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUPPORTING SUCH PERSONS IN THE COMMUNITY

Area of benefit: NORTH DERBYSHIRE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Chesterfield, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £299,898 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by increased fee rates and the sale of a property. Free reserves stood at £959,440, which is significantly above the trustees' stated policy target of approximately £543,000, representing three months of expenditure. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BHP LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

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

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

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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
• 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)

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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 20/03/2024, 49 days after the 31/01/2024 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03442643
• Trading subsidiary: ABILITY SUPPORTED LIVING DERBYSHIRE LIMITED Companies House 08632523

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Chesterfield And District Society For People With A Learning Disability (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• RENSHAW, Jared James — director, appointed 04/09/2023on trustee list
• COOLING, Gareth Richard — director, appointed 09/12/2022on trustee list
• HOLMES, Thomas David — director, appointed 04/09/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

CQC provider record: Chesterfield & District Society for People with a Learning Disability — Registered, 1 registered location, 2 regulated activities, last inspected 09/04/2019.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (89% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gareth Richard Cooling
• Jared Renshaw Mr
• THOMAS DAVID HOLMES

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

Operates in: Derbyshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DISABILITY STOCKPORT CIO.

• DISABILITY STOCKPORT CIO income £1.5m
• THE DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTRE income £576k
• BISHOP CREIGHTON HOUSE SETTLEMENT income £845k
• COMMUNITY CARE OPTIONS income £705k
• WARRINGTON & DISTRICT SOCIETY FOR DEAF PEOPLE income £124k
• PARITY FOR DISABILITY income £1.9m

Side by side with its peers

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