DISABILITY ADVICE SERVICE LAMBETH

Registered charity 1087399 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DASL

Legal advice for disabled people on benefits, housing, debt, community care. Professional advocacy for disabled and older people and carers. Direct payments support service for Lambeth. Into Sport project for disabled people. Employment support project for young Disabled people. Disability Hate Crime policy work. Community development work with Disabled people. Local strategic and policy work.

Objects

THE COMPANY'S OBJECTS ("THE OBJECTS") ARE TO RELIEVE PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES LIVING IN, OR ASSOCIATED WITH, THE LONDON BOROUGH OF LAMBETH AND SURROUNDING AREAS, SO THAT THEY MAY LEAD ACTIVE AND FULFILLING LIVES INTEGRATED IN SOCIETY.

Area of benefit: THE LONDON BOROUGH OF LAMBETH AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS

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 · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £67,382 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted reserves of £220,571. The trustees' policy is to maintain reserves providing for at least six months of operating costs, and the current unrestricted reserves exceed this target. The independent examiner reported no matters requiring attention, and the charity is not subject to audit under company law.

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.

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
• 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
• 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.

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 31/03/2025 (received 21/02/2026, 21 days after the 31/01/2026 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Disability Advice Service Lambeth (matched by registered charity number).

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• BOZ BOROWY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Denise Airey
• Edmund Clottey
• ISABELLE MADELEINE GISELE CLEMENT
• Josh Thomas Hepple
• Philippa Marlowe-Hunt
• Yvonne McPherson

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

Operates in: Lambeth · Southwark

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 DISABILITY LAW SERVICE.

• DISABILITY LAW SERVICE income £899k
• THE DISABILITY ADVICE PROJECT income £184k
• THE DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTRE income £576k
• ASIST income £1.4m
• HELPING DISABILITIES TRUST income £131k
• CAMDEN PEOPLE FIRST income £81k

Side by side with its peers

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