SPECIAL NEEDS AND PARENTS LIMITED

Registered charity 1077787 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SNAP

Advice, information and support services for parents/carers of children and young people with disabilities. Services and activities for children and young people with disabilities and support for their siblings.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS WITH PHYSICAL AND/OR MENTAL DISABILITIES OR OTHER SPECIAL NEEDS PARTICULARLY BY THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION, ENCOURAGEMENT AND SUPPORT TO THEIR PARENTS AND SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES AS THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION SHALL DECIDE

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: Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Brentwood, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a loss of £108,096 in 2025 due to lower income and higher expenditure. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves were £634,945, providing 7.3 months of expenditure cover, which is below the stated policy target of 6 to 9 months.

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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03805837

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — SNAP (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.

• VERDI, Surjit — director, appointed 15/07/2025on trustee list
• BROAD, Thomas James — director, appointed 26/11/2024on trustee list
• CHAPLIN, Elizabeth Jane — director, appointed 23/09/2024on trustee list
• LAGDON, Denise — director, appointed 06/03/2024on trustee list
• SAWYER, Steven Paul — director, appointed 12/12/2023on trustee list
• WOODING, Vincent Paul — director, appointed 12/12/2023on trustee list
• SCOLA, Kate — director, appointed 15/09/2021on trustee list
• HULBERT, Stuart Ray — director, appointed 05/10/2020on trustee list
• DELLER RAY, Paul Daniel — director, appointed 19/09/2018not on trustee list
• CARR, Mandy Louisa Glynis — director, appointed 28/09/2016on trustee list
• GRAY, Julia Kate — director, appointed 01/10/2013on trustee list
• DAVIES, Suzanne Julia — director, appointed 27/11/2009on trustee list
• PARLOUR, Chloe Bernadette — secretary, appointed 02/09/2025

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.

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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (56% 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: 26.6% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/02/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/12/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Stuart Hulbertchair
• Denise Lagdon
• Elizabeth Jane Chaplin
• Julia Kate Gray
• Kate Scola
• Mandy Louisa Glynis Carr · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paul Daniel Deller Ray
• Steven Paul Sawyer
• Surjit Verdi
• Suzanne Julia Davies
• Thomas James Broad · trustee of 1 other charity
• Vincent Paul Wooding

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

Operates in: Essex

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 HARTLEPOOL SPECIAL NEEDS SUPPORT GROUP.

• HARTLEPOOL SPECIAL NEEDS SUPPORT GROUP income £159k
• PARITY FOR DISABILITY income £1.9m
• DISABILITY FOCUS income £603k
• PEREDUR TRUST income £314k
• SPECIAL NEEDS ADVISORY AND ACTIVITIES PROJECT income £422k
• PARENTS IN NEED income £79k

Side by side with its peers

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