THE BRITISH DISABLED ANGLING ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1074729 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ANGLING LINK

Provides opportunities for disabled people of all ages via information, advice, coaching, education, training, development, volunteering, and access advice. Delivery of awareness courses to disabled and non disabled groups bridging the social divide encouraging social inclusion via angling.

Objects

TO PROVIDE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE RECREATIONAL FACILITIES FOR DISABLED PERSONS WITHIN GREAT BRITAIN WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS

Area of benefit: GREAT BRITAIN

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 · Education/training · Disability · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Walsall, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity raised £242,352 in donations and incurred total expenditure of £233,695, resulting in a net income of £8,662 for the year. Per the trustees' report, the charity's reserves policy is to maintain sufficient levels to cover up to 12 months of normal operating activities, though the balance sheet shows restricted funds in deficit. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention regarding the accounts.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• 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
• 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)

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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 30/06/2021 (received 08/05/2022, 8 days after the 30/04/2022 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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CAREY HILDRY SUTTON
• DAVID OWEN
• GARY RODRIGUEZ
• GEOFFREY ALAN EVANS
• JUDITH BROWN · trustee of 1 other charity
• MARK BOWELL
• MARK OWEN
• Matthew Skelhon
• TERRY MOSELEY

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

Operates in: 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 The Disabled Sailors Association.

• The Disabled Sailors Association income £775k
• EAST ANGLIAN SAILING TRUST income £67k
• ACCESSIBLE BOATING ASSOCIATION income £45k
• DISABLEMENT ASSOCIATION OF BARKING AND DAGENHAM income £3.5m
• LEARNING DISABILITY ENGLAND income £381k
• ALLERDALE DISABILITY ASSOCIATION income £102k

Side by side with its peers

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