NEW FOREST DISABILITY INFORMATION SERVICE

Registered charity 1104589 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Providing free, impartial, confidential disability related information, advice and guidance for people with disabilities, their families, carers, professionals and any other interested party throughout the New Forest and surrounding area.

Objects

TO RELIEVE PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES LIVING IN THE NEW FOREST AND SURROUNDING AREA SO THAT THEY MAY LEAD ACTIVE AND FULFILLING LIVES INTEGRATED IN SOCIETY

Area of benefit: THE NEW FOREST AND SURROUNDING AREA

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: New Forest, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £57,030 for the year ended 31 March 2025, strengthening its total funds to £107,574. However, the trustees note that the majority of these funds are restricted, highlighting a need to develop new unrestricted income streams to ensure long-term sustainability. The charity remains in a sound financial position to continue delivering its services.

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
• 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)

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 08/03/2024, 37 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Lloyds Bank Foundation — “New Forest Disability Information Service (NFDIS) is delighted to announce that the Lloyds Bank Foundation has awarded a grant of £25,000 pe…” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Reg Odbertchair
• ANNE CORBRIDGE
• Pam Lacey
• Penelope Ann Clark · trustee of 1 other charity
• Peter Middleton
• Philip Devereux Latham
• Robert Froome
• Simon James Eric Smith

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

Operates in: Hampshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 HELPING OLDER PEOPLE NEW FOREST.

• HELPING OLDER PEOPLE NEW FOREST income £204k
• NEW FOREST TRUST income £84k
• NEW FOREST HERITAGE TRUST income £470k
• FOREST SENSORY SERVICES income £96k
• NEW FOREST MENCAP income £108k
• Nottingham Forest Foundation income £2.1m

Side by side with its peers

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