INTERACT STROKE SUPPORT

Registered charity 1080046 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as INTERACT READING SERVICE, INTERACT READING SERVICE - SUPPORTING STROKE RECOVERY

InterAct Stroke Support takes professional actors into hospitals and stroke clubs to read and interact with stroke survivors. This interaction alleviates boredom, depression and stimulates the brain, thus helping rehabilitation & recovery.Post stroke depression is common and neural stimulation has been shown to help the brain "adaptively rewire" finding new routes from A to B.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE IN SICKNESS OR DISTRESS BY THE PROVISION OF THE SPOKEN WORD IN A VARIETY OF FORMS WHICH MAY INCLUDE THE PROVISION OF A READING SERVICE

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £264,691 from £170,328 in the prior year, resulting in a net surplus of £47,245. Unrestricted reserves rose to £108,397, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet their policy target of approximately six months of unrestricted expenditure. The trustees confirm adequate resources for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified.

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
• 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
• 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 03910122

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — InterAct Stroke Support (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.

• ROWE, Clive Mark — director, appointed 28/05/2026on trustee list
• RIDLEY, John Stephen — director, appointed 28/05/2026on trustee list
• WALKER, Marion Fraser, Professor — director, appointed 10/10/2021not on trustee list
• MCDONNELL, Jonathan Robert — director, appointed 10/10/2021on trustee list
• RUDD, Anthony George, Professor — director, appointed 10/10/2021not on trustee list
• SOWDEN, Leah Janice — director, appointed 20/04/2005on trustee list
• HUBBARD, Edmund Joshua — director, appointed 13/01/2005on trustee list
• TALBOT, Ian Clive — director, appointed 20/01/2000not on trustee list
• RAVENSCROFT, Christopher John — director, appointed 20/01/2000not on trustee list
• MAHINDRU, Nirjay — secretary, appointed 03/11/2005

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Clive Mark Rowe
• Dr Anthony Rudd CBE
• Dr Marion Walker MBE
• EDMUND JOSHUA HUBBARD
• John Stephen Ridley
• Jonathan McDonnell
• LEAH JANICE SOWDEN

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Bristol City · Cardiff · East Sussex · Manchester City · Newcastle Upon Tyne City · Northern Ireland · Oldham · Scotland · Throughout London · West Sussex

Income and spending

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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 STROKE SURVIVORS SPEECH & LANGUAGE SUPPORT GROUP.

• STROKE SURVIVORS SPEECH & LANGUAGE SUPPORT GROUP income £31k
• LEEK STROKE CLUB income £27k
• SUCCESS AFTER STROKE income £306k
• DIFFERENT STROKES (TRUSTEES) LIMITED income £486k
• STROKE ASSOCIATION income £44.4m
• SUCCESS AFTER STROKE income £37k

Side by side with its peers

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