COMPASS DISABILITY SERVICES

Registered charity 1099376 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SAIN, SOMERSET ACCESS & INCLUSION NETWORK, SOMERSET ACCESS & INCLUSION NETWORK LIMITED

We are a user-Led organisation. Our mission is "To enable and empower disabled people and carers to have independence, choice and control in their lives". We work through consultation, representation and service provision to fulfil our mission.

Objects

'THE RELIEF OF PERSONS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, WITH DISABILITIES IN SUCH CHARITABLE WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES DETERMINE FROM TIME TO TIME. THIS RELIEF TO BE ACHIEVED THROUGH: THE PROVISION OF SPECIALIST SUPPORT, CONSULTATION AND RESEARCH SERVICES TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF SUCH PERSONS.

Area of benefit: COUNTY OF SOMERSET

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

Causes: Disability · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £48,843 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income rising to £1,367,243. However, the trustees report that free reserves were in deficit by £2,668, falling below the stated policy target of £200,000. The trustees consider the financial position to be soundly based despite ongoing risks related to the cost of living crisis and funding pressures.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Westcotts (SW) LLP. Discloses 5 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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 31/03/2023 (received 07/02/2024, 7 days after the 31/01/2024 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04245798

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Compass Disability Services (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mark Oldershaw — Chair (source)
• Richard Pitman — CEO (source)

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.

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.

• WOODALL, Penelope — director, appointed 11/08/2026not on trustee list
• BRADLEY, James David — director, appointed 11/08/2026not on trustee list
• FOLEY, Bryan — director, appointed 11/08/2026not on trustee list
• JEFFREY, Gillian Brenda — director, appointed 11/08/2026not on trustee list
• PARSONS, Loreli Caitlin — director, appointed 11/08/2026not on trustee list
• SMITH, Gary Peter — director, appointed 06/03/2019on trustee list
• HOLE, Denise Mary — director, appointed 03/07/2012on trustee list
• TILLEY, Pauline Margaret — director, appointed 03/04/2012on trustee list
• BORBON, Nikki — secretary, appointed 01/02/2026
• PITMAN, Richard Anthony — secretary, appointed 13/02/2012

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (62% 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: 59.8% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DENISE MARY HOLE
• Gary Smith
• PAULINE TILLEY

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Birmingham City · City Of Swansea · Cornwall · Dorset · Gloucestershire · North Somerset · Somerset · Warwickshire · Wiltshire

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 COMPASS COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LTD.

• COMPASS COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LTD income £450k
• COMPASS {COUNSELLING ON MERSEYSIDE - PASTORAL AND SUPPORTING SERVICE} income £240k
• THE COMPASS FOR LIFE FOUNDATION income £0
• COMPASS COLLECTIVE income £215k
• COMMUNITY CARE OPTIONS income £705k
• CAMDEN DISABILITY ACTION income £592k

Side by side with its peers

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