THE MOTIVATION CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1079358 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q132472382 · also known as MOTIVATION

Motivation is an international development charity supporting people with mobility disabilities. Working with local, national and international partners, we have been transforming the lives of disabled people for over 30 years. Our high quality, low cost wheelchairs, supported with innovative training programmes help disabled people to gain independence, confidence and hope for the future.

Objects

1) TO RELIEVE PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES BY METHODS INCLUDING (WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) THE FOLLOWING:I) UNDERTAKING, FACILITATING AND IMPROVING THE DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION AND FABRICATION OF EQUIPMENT, MACHINES, COMPUTER PROGRAMMES AND OBJECTS OF ANY DESCRIPTION FOR USE BY OR IN THE REHABILITATION OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND THEIR RELATIVES AND CARERS.II) EDUCATING AND INFORMING THE PUBLIC IN RELATION TO THE UNDERTAKING, FACILITATION AND IMPROVEMENT IN THE DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION AND FABRICATION OF SUCH EQUIPMENT, MACHINERY, COMPUTER PROGRAMMES AND OBJECTS.III) PROVIDING TRAINING, EDUCATION AND INFORMATION IN RELATION TO THE REHABILITATION OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND THEIR RELATIVES AND CARERS.2) THE BENEFIT OF SUCH ONE OR MORE CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS OR FOR SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD AS THE DIRECTORS FROM TIME TO TIME IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Amateur Sport · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: City of London, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit on unrestricted funds of £187,000, resulting in a negative unrestricted reserve balance of £80,427. Per the trustees' report, the financial position remains challenging with a stated reserves policy target of three months' expenditure (£400,000), which is currently not met. However, the trustees concluded that there are adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future on a going concern basis.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Forvis Mazars LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Insolvency history (Companies House)

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
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

1 annual return is past its due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03916496

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Motivation (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.

• WONG, Jennifer Christine — director, appointed 24/01/2024on trustee list
• CHARALAMBIDES, Tony — director, appointed 20/10/2022on trustee list
• CUTLER, Kirsty-Ann — director, appointed 20/10/2022on trustee list
• GREEN, David — director, appointed 10/02/2021on trustee list
• BROWNING, Jennifer — director, appointed 04/02/2016not on trustee list
• DANIEL, Nigel Adrian — director, appointed 12/11/2015on trustee list
• HAWKES, Richard Charles — director, appointed 01/10/2015on trustee list
• PORTEOUS, Emma — secretary, appointed 01/05/2025

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~1.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (64% 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: 12.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Green · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jen Browning
• Jennifer Wong · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kirsty-Ann Cutler
• Nigel Daniel · trustee of 2 other charities
• Richard Charles Hawkes · trustee of 1 other charity
• Tony Charalambides

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

Operates in: Bristol City · Ethiopia · India · Kenya · Malawi · Nepal · Pakistan · Sri Lanka · Sudan · Tanzania · Uganda

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 CAMPAIGN FOR BETTER TRANSPORT CHARITABLE TRUST.

• CAMPAIGN FOR BETTER TRANSPORT CHARITABLE TRUST income £819k
• THE TRUELOVES CHARITABLE TRUST income £49k
• THE SOCIAL MOBILITY FOUNDATION income £3.3m
• THE MOLITOR CHARITABLE TRUST income £49k
• THE TALENT FOUNDRY TRUST income £2.0m
• HELPING DISABILITIES TRUST income £131k

Side by side with its peers

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