DRESSABILITY

Registered charity 1102083 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To support independence and wellbeing, Dressability provides a specialist garment adaptation/alteration service - based on the sensitive and informed identification of discrete solutions to the complex clothing challenges encountered by people with disabilities, learning difficulties and/or mobility impairments.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES THROUGH THE PROVISION OF A SPECIALIST CLOTHING SERVICE AND THROUGH THE DESIGN AND ADAPTATION OF CLOTHING FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED, BUT IN PRACTICE SWINDON AND WILTSHIRE

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

Causes: Disability · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £305,136, which exceeds its stated policy target of one year’s running costs. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern, although they note that the unpredictability of grant funding remains a principal uncertainty.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• Complaints handling
• 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/09/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Chris Ockwell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nigel Lugg OBE
• Teresa Elliott

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

Operates in: Swindon · Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 CLOTHING SOLUTIONS (FOR DISABLED PEOPLE).

• CLOTHING SOLUTIONS (FOR DISABLED PEOPLE) income £110k
• HELPING DISABILITIES TRUST income £131k
• DESIGNABILITY CHARITY LIMITED income £1.9m
• DIVERSE ABILITIES PLUS LTD. income £10.4m
• VISION25 income £942k
• STYLE ACRE income £12.7m

Side by side with its peers

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