NATIONAL ACTIVITY PROVIDERS ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1070674 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NAPA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR PROVIDERS OF ACTIVITIES FOR OLDER PEOPLE

NAPA is the professional association for Activity Providers and activity provision for care and support services in the UK. We set activity standards and provide professional and practice development services for activity and care teams. Our members provide care and support services to adults these include care homes, supported living, day services, hospitals and community services.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE ELDERLY PARTICULARLY BY THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION ADVICE SUPPORT AND EDUCATION FOR THOSE WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PROVISION OF ACTIVITIES FOR OLDER PERSONS IN ESTABLISHMENTS WHICH PROVIDE SERVICES OR CARE.

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: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity closed the year with a deficit of £64,659, driven by slower-than-anticipated membership recruitment. However, the trustees report that the cash position is healthy and unrestricted reserves stand at £208,827, which they note is equal to approximately eight months of running costs.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 6 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03482943

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — NAPA (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.

• LATHAM, Isabelle Jane — director, appointed 23/06/2026on trustee list
• KWON, Kieun — director, appointed 29/10/2025on trustee list
• LEATHAM, Scarlet Elizabeth — director, appointed 29/10/2024on trustee list
• GOLDSMITH, Susan Maria — director, appointed 22/07/2019on trustee list
• ASCOTT, Susan Margaret — director, appointed 14/06/2019on trustee list
• WATKINSON, Ed — director, appointed 20/03/2019not on trustee list
• THOMAS, Oliver Henry Dixon — director, appointed 20/03/2019on trustee list
• WOODHEAD, Hilary — secretary, appointed 01/09/2019

Official officers record.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Oliver Henry Dixon Thomaschair
• DAVID WATKINSON
• Isabelle Latham
• Kieun Kwon
• Scarlet Leatham
• Susan Ascott
• Susan Goldsmith
• Suzanne Mumford

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR PERFORMING ARTS MEDICINE.

• BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR PERFORMING ARTS MEDICINE income £1.4m
• THE NOT FORGOTTEN ASSOCIATION (NFA) income £1.3m
• THE NATIONAL APPROPRIATE ADULT NETWORK LIMITED income £218k
• Norfolk and Norwich SEND Association income £1.8m
• NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR PEOPLE ABUSED IN CHILDHOOD income £394k
• OXFORDSHIRE PLAY ASSOCIATION income £170k

Side by side with its peers

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