DISABILITY CHALLENGERS
Registered charity 1095134 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHALLENGERS
Challengers provides play & leisure opportunities for disabled children and young people between the ages of 2 & 18 years old. Our schemes give children & young people a space of their own to have fun, meet friends and challenge their impairments through play.Challengers operate a non-exclusion policy which means that any child can attend Challengers regardless of the severity of their impairment.
Causes: Disability · Recreation · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported a small overall deficit of £31k for the year, driven by depreciation charges in designated funds, while unrestricted funds showed a surplus. Free reserves were £593k, which is below the stated policy target of £739k-£1,248k, but the trustees and auditors confirm the organization remains a strong and viable going concern with sufficient resources to meet immediate needs.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Disability Challengers (matched by registered charity number).
Leadership, per the charity’s website
Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.
Funders the charity credits
Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).
- Kelly’s Storage — “Kelly’s Storage Charity Events was born and an amazing relationship between the Green & Orange teams was established. We have worked on almo…” (source page)
- NFU Mutual — “NFU Mutual first supported Challengers through their COVID Funding programme in 2020, donating an amazing £3,164. This vital donation helped…” (source page)
- Waitrose — “Waitrose ha ve supported Challengers for many years through their Community Matters programme . Collectively across all stores in the South-…” (source page)
Public-sector contracts awarded
From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.
Property (HM Land Registry)
2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 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 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£413k
Reported reserves equal ~2.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (65% 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: 12.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
- Alison Stenlake
- Ashley Francis Rees Carter
- Bernard McAlister
- Danae Salwan
- David Beresford Stam
- Holly Rebecca Goodwin
- Jake Hatt
- Russell Stuart Harvey
- Ruth Stephanie Milton
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Hampshire · Kingston Upon Thames · Richmond Upon Thames · Surrey · West Sussex
Income and spending
Common questions
Is DISABILITY CHALLENGERS financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a small overall deficit of £31k for the year, driven by depreciation charges in designated funds, while unrestricted funds showed a surplus. Free reserves were £593k, which is below the stated policy target of £739k-£1,248k, but the trustees and auditors confirm the organization remains a strong and viable going concern with sufficient resources to meet immediate needs. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Sayer Vincent LLP.
Who funds DISABILITY CHALLENGERS?
Funders whose own accounts filings name DISABILITY CHALLENGERS as a grant recipient include GARFIELD WESTON FOUNDATION, THE STEVEN BLOCH IMAGE OF DISABILITY CHARITABLE TRUST, THE GRAND LODGE OF MARK MASTER MASONS' FUND OF BENEVOLENCE, THE INGRAM TRUST, THE EDWARD GOSTLING FOUNDATION.
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 THE CHALLENGING BEHAVIOUR FOUNDATION.
Side by side with its peers
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