ACTION ON DISABILITY

Registered charity 1091518 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HAFAD (HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM ACTION ON DISABILITY)

Action on Disability's main activity as a charitable company by guarantee is to promote equality of opportunity in the community for all disabled people.This is done through the delivery of high quality services, influencing local and national policy and the removal of barriers to full participation in society.

Objects

(A) TO PROMOTE EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY, CHOICE AND INDEPENDENCE BY REMOVING PHYSICAL, SOCIAL AND ATTITUDINAL BARRIERS TO INTEGRATION WITHIN THE COMMUNITY FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE A PHYSICAL OR SENSORY IMPAIRMENT OR LEARNING DISABILITY , OR WHO EXPERIENCE MENTAL HEALTH DIFFICULTIES, THROUGH THE ENCOURAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATION, TRAINING, FACILITIES FOR RECREATION, EMPLOYMENT BASED ON THE ETHOS OF INDEPENDENT LIVING AND WHO RESIDE, WORK OR ARE UNDERGOING EDUCATIONAL OR VOCATIONAL TRAINING IN BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THE BOROUGH OF HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM.B) TO FULFIL ANY OTHER OBJECT WHICH IS DEEMED WHOLLY AND EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE BY THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

Area of benefit: PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY WITHIN THE BOROUGH OF HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Hammersmith and Fulham, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a small surplus and holds unrestricted general funds of £315,506. This level of free reserves is just below the trustees' stated policy target of 25% of annual expenditure (or three months of running costs), which would require £334,275. The trustees confirm that the charity is a going concern with no material uncertainties about its ability to continue operations.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Goldwins Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from Under £60,000 (FY2025) to Over £60,000 (FY2026).
• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2025) → 1 (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed 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
• Investing charity funds 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04237604

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Action on Disability (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Julia Rausing Trust — “Julia Rausing Trust – supported internship and follow up project” (source page)
• John Lyons Charity — “John Lyons Charity – core youth service” (source page)
• Hammersmith & Fulham Council — “Hammersmith & Fulham Council – co-production and disability equality programme” (source page)
• Young H&F Foundation — “Young H&F Foundation – youth partnership work” (source page)

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.

• SMITH, Roger O'Neil Jason — director, appointed 24/02/2026on trustee list
• GRIGORIAN, Sos, Dr — director, appointed 24/02/2026on trustee list
• HILL, Jack Alexander — director, appointed 03/12/2024on trustee list
• BUTLER, Thomas William — director, appointed 03/12/2024on trustee list
• KEY-FIELD, Naomi Melinda — director, appointed 14/11/2023on trustee list
• FENNER, Donna — director, appointed 29/03/2023on trustee list
• KARIM, Mustafa — director, appointed 16/11/2020on trustee list
• SHOESMITH, Sharon Edita — director, appointed 19/08/2020on trustee list
• BETTERIDGE, Kate — director, appointed 17/08/2017on trustee list
• BUXTON, David Colleton — secretary, appointed 08/05/2017

Official officers record.

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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~2.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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: 0.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sharon Shoesmithchair
• Donna Fenner
• Dr Sos Grigorian
• Jack Hill
• KATE BETTERIDGE
• Mustafa Karim
• Naomi Key-Field
• Roger Smith
• Thomas Butler

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

Operates in: Brent · City Of Westminster · Hammersmith And Fulham · Hillingdon · Hounslow · Kensington And Chelsea · Kingston Upon Thames · Richmond Upon Thames

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ACTION DEAFNESS.

• ACTION DEAFNESS income £3.1m
• CAMDEN DISABILITY ACTION income £592k
• ACTION DISABILITY KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA income £461k
• COMMUNITY EQUALITY DISABILITY ACTION income £1.7m
• IMAGINE ACT AND SUCCEED income £12.1m
• DISABILITY CAN DO income £118k

Side by side with its peers

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