RICHMOND ADVICE AND INFORMATION ON DISABILITY (RAID)

Registered charity 1074788 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RAID, RICHMOND AID

Richmond AID runs services for disabled people including an Information Navigation and Advice Service, Money Advice, Benefits Service, Job Club, Peer Network, Spade gardening service and more.

Objects

TO RELIEVE DISABLED PERSONS IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND AND ELSEWHERE

Area of benefit: LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND AND ELSEWHERE

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

Causes: Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Richmond upon Thames, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted general reserves increased to £380,848, which the trustees confirm is within their stated policy target of four to six months of expenditure. The independent auditor reported no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by David Howard. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Paying staff
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03612476

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.

• FLETCHER, Mark Peter — director, appointed 11/05/2026on trustee list
• ORTON, Nuala — director, appointed 27/01/2025on trustee list
• BARCLAY, Ute Barbara — director, appointed 05/08/2024on trustee list
• WATTS, Cecilia Bernadette — director, appointed 05/12/2022on trustee list
• NEWTON, Claire Patricia — director, appointed 17/03/2017on trustee list
• MCLEOD, Scotty — director, appointed 17/03/2017on trustee list
• SAMJI, Ismet — director, appointed 17/03/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% 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

• Venna Rodenchair
• Cecilia Bernadette Watts
• Claire Day
• Claire Newton
• Ismet Samji
• Mark Fletcher
• Nuala Orton
• Scotty McLeod · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ute Barbara Barclay

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

Operates in: Hounslow · Kingston Upon Thames · Richmond Upon Thames

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

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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 DISABILITY ADVICE SERVICE LAMBETH.

• DISABILITY ADVICE SERVICE LAMBETH income £629k
• RICHMOND CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX SERVICE income £878k
• RIVERSIDE ADVICE LTD income £539k
• THE DISABILITY ADVICE PROJECT income £184k
• THE ROYAL ASSOCIATION FOR DEAF PEOPLE income £3.1m
• ALLERDALE DISABILITY ASSOCIATION income £102k

Side by side with its peers

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