CHOICES AND RIGHTS DISABILITY COALITION

Registered charity 1106462 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Choices and Rights Disability Coalition (CARDC) are an organisation run and controlled exclusively by disabled people in the Hull and East Riding area. One of our key roles is to support disabled people and their families to employ Personal Assistants, so they can live independent lives.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES.(I) BY ENABLING PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES TO CONTROL THEIR OWN LIVES THROUGH THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES, SERVICES, SUPPORT, AND LAWFUL MEANS;(II) BY ENABLEMING PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES TO PARTICIPATE FULLY IN SOCIETY ON EQUAL TERMS WITH ALL OTHER MEMBERS OF SOCIETY.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE CITY OF KINGSTON UPON HULL NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE NORTH EAST LINCOLNSHIRE OR SURROUNDING AREAS

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 · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £459,321, which the trustees consider to be in line with their policy of maintaining between three and six months' expenditure. The charity reported a net income surplus of £106,359 for the year, with total income of £342,643 and charitable expenditure of £236,284. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03982194 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• STAVES, Kenneth Stephen — director, appointed 24/10/2025not on trustee list
• WESTERMAN, Stephen Thomas — director, appointed 24/10/2025on trustee list
• STAVES, Elizabeth Theresa — director, appointed 27/01/2025on trustee list
• THOMPSON, Helen Denise — director, appointed 27/01/2025on trustee list
• THOMPSON, Robin Paul — director, appointed 27/01/2025on trustee list
• LAIDLAW, Dawn — director, appointed 12/02/2009not on trustee list
• BAGGLEY, Mark — secretary, appointed 26/03/2012

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAWN LAIDLAW- Bacon
• Elizabeth Staves
• Helen Thompson
• Kenny Staves
• Robin Thompson
• Stephen Westerman

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

Operates in: East Riding Of Yorkshire · Kingston Upon Hull City

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).