DIAL DONCASTER

Registered charity 1103621 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Disability Information Advice ServiceWe aim to provide an easily accesible information and advisory service for people who live in the Doncaster area.By providing this service we aim to raise the awareness of disability issues in order to influence change.We aim to empower and enable disabled people to live a more independant and enriched life.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF DISABLED PERSONS, THEIR FAMILY AND CARERS AND PROFESSIONALS WORKING WITH DISABILITY ISSUES WITHIN THE DONCASTER METROPOLITAN BOROUGH, IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION, INFORMATION, ADVICE, PRACTICAL HELP AND SUPPORTIVE COUNSELLING.

Area of benefit: WITHIN THE DONCASTER METROPOLITAN BOROUGH

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £8,104 for the year, reducing total funds to £106,641. The trustees note that lack of funding has reduced the quantity of services provided, and the principal risk identified is obtaining adequate funding, with the main contract due for renewal in April 2025. Reserves are held above the stated policy target of three months' run-down costs.

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 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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr SUSAN PATRICIA EKINSchair
• Dr Rosemary Ann Hamlin
• John Michael Patrick Burke
• Martin Henderson
• SAMANTHA MARSH

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

Operates in: Doncaster

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CITIZENS ADVICE DONCASTER BOROUGH.

• CITIZENS ADVICE DONCASTER BOROUGH income £1.9m
• DONCASTER PARTNERSHIP FOR CARERS LTD income £112k
• THE DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTRE income £576k
• DISABILITY LAW SERVICE income £899k
• DIAL BARNSLEY income £538k
• AGE UK DONCASTER income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

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