CEREBRAL PALSY PLUS

Registered charity 1070079 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CP PLUS, SCOPE BRISTOL, SCOPE BRISTOL CPT

Assistance of those with Cerebral Palsy and their carers resident in the greater Bristol area so as to enable them to live as independently and fully as possible

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE CARE, WELFARE, INTEREST, TREATMENT, EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT AND ADVANCEMENT IN BRISTOL AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS OF PEOPLE WITH CEREBRAL PALSY AND OTHER DISABLED PERSONS

Area of benefit: BRISTOL

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

Causes: Disability · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £45,742 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £295,542 to £249,800. The trustees maintain that free reserves of £32,986 meet their policy aim of holding at least six months of running costs, and they consider the charity to be a going concern with adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03553651

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Cerebral Palsy Plus (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).

• Global’s Make Some Noise — “This website was created with thanks to a Development Grant from Global’s Make Some Noise” (source page)

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.

• CREESE, Linda — director, appointed 05/12/2024on trustee list
• BHARGAVA, Ankita — director, appointed 05/12/2024on trustee list
• BRISTOW, Rebecca — director, appointed 05/12/2024on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Robyn Jessica — director, appointed 02/12/2021on trustee list
• THOMAS, Ian — director, appointed 26/11/2018on trustee list
• BARRELL, James — director, appointed 26/11/2018on trustee list
• FU CLARKE, Sonia Tsi-Shan — director, appointed 26/11/2018not on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Robyn Jessica — secretary, appointed 07/12/2023

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/12/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sonia Fu Clarkechair
• Ankita Bhargava
• Ian Thomas
• James Barrell
• Linda Creese
• Rebecca Bristow
• Robyn Taylor

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Bristol City · South Gloucestershire

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 Cerebral Palsy Cymru.

• Cerebral Palsy Cymru income £1.7m
• STOCKPORT, EAST CHESHIRE, HIGH PEAK, URMSTON & DISTRICT CEREBRAL PALSY SOCIETY income £3.8m
• CMSS income £805k
• ACTION CEREBRAL PALSY income £54k
• CUMBRIA CEREBRAL PALSY income £512k
• ENHANCEABLE income £3.1m

Side by side with its peers

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