DISABILITY ARTS IN SHROPSHIRE

Registered charity 1090677 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

DASH is a practical Disability Arts development organisation, which works across the locally, regionally, nationally and internationally with disabled and deaf people and working in partnership with arts and cultural organisations to develop disability arts practice.

Causes: Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£316k
Latest spending
£268k
Registered
2002
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net income of £47,669, increasing its total fund balances to £287,320. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves stood at £229,865, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover between three and six months' expenditure. The trustees have revised their reserves policy to maintain reserves equivalent to three months of operating costs to better support programme development.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three months of operating costs (held: £230k)
The trustees have revised the reserves policy to maintain reserves equivalent to 3 months of operating costs — page 6
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£316k£268k
31/03/2024£317k£195k
31/03/2023£206k£250k
31/03/2022£337k£327k
31/03/2021£274k£153k

Common questions

Is DISABILITY ARTS IN SHROPSHIRE financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity achieved a net income of £47,669, increasing its total fund balances to £287,320. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves stood at £229,865, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover between three and six months' expenditure. The trustees have revised their reserves policy to maintain reserves equivalent to three months of operating costs to better support programme development. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
UK government26/08/2020£25kCoronavirus Community Support Fund
The National Lottery Community Fund05/03/2010£9kOpen Door
The National Lottery Community Fund01/02/2006£5kLudlow Inclusive Carnival workshops and Calypso Competition
The National Lottery Community Fund17/08/2004£2kAn Away Day for the Management Board and Staff

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Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
DISABILITY ARTS IN SHROPSHIRE£316k0unclearno doubt
THE DASH CHARITY FY2025£824k0within7.3%no doubt
SHAPE LONDON FY2025£715kunclearno doubt
INTOART PROJECTS FY2025£437k0withinno doubt
ARTS DERBYSHIRE FY2024£215k0belownoted
The MFPA Fund For The Training Of Disabled Children In The Arts FY2025£308k0unclear11.9%no doubt

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