DIFFERENT STROKES (TRUSTEES) LIMITED

Registered charity 1092168 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DIFFERENT STROKES · also registered in Scotland as SC044190 (OSCR)

To help stroke survivors of below retirement age optimise their recovery & take control of their lives by offering rehabilitative services, information & advice.

Objects

TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO HAVE SUFFERED STROKES (PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY YOUNG STROKE SURVIVORS) AND SUPPORT THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Milton Keynes, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a planned deficit of £117,861 for the year, resulting in a net movement in funds of £89,813. Per the trustees' report, the charity's free reserves of £355,034 comfortably exceed the stated policy target of six months' running costs (£249,030). The trustees confirm that resources are adequate to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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 4 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
• 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)

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Different Strokes (Trustees) Limited (matched by registered charity number).

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

Reported reserves equal ~14.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 8.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/10/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ranj Singh Parmarchair
• Catherine Bell
• Catherine Victoria Carey
• Christopher John Henry · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Satinder Sanghera MB BCh · trustee of 1 other charity
• MICHAEL ALAN CAINES
• RICHARD DJAN-KROFA

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

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 STROKE ASSOCIATION.

• STROKE ASSOCIATION income £44.4m
• DUDLEY STROKE ASSOCIATION income £190k
• STROKE INFORMATION income £26k
• SUCCESS AFTER STROKE income £37k
• BRISTOL AFTER STROKE income £463k
• SUCCESS AFTER STROKE income £306k

Side by side with its peers

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