DIAL BARNSLEY

Registered charity 1108982 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DISABLEMENT INFORMATION & ADVICE LINE BARNSLEY

The provision of advice and information to disabled people and carers in the borough of Barnsley.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE RELIEF OF DISABLED PERSONS AND THEIR CARERS AND THE RELIEF OF PERSONS IN NEED, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY REASON OF DISABILITY, ILL-HEALTH, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE, PRINCIPALLY BY THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION, ADVICE, GUIDANCE, SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED.

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: Barnsley, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit for the year of £53,106, with total income of £429,191 against total expenditure of £482,297. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £127,701, which is in line with the policy target of maintaining at least three months' annual expenditure. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operation for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainties existing.

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.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2025) to "within" (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed by this site.

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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (56% 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: 0.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Ng
• Ian David Turner
• NIGEL MIDDLEHURST
• Peter David Robertshaw-Corbett · trustee of 1 other charity
• Simon James Ramshaw · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stephen Peter Race · trustee of 3 other charities
• Zoe Metcalfe

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

Operates in: Barnsley · City Of Wakefield · Doncaster · Rotherham · Sheffield City

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 BARNSLEY & DISTRICT U3A.

• BARNSLEY & DISTRICT U3A income £81k
• DUNSTABLE AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £230k
• DISABILITY CORNWALL AND THE ISLES OF SCILLY income £2.5m
• BARNSLEY AND DISTRICT ANIMAL RESCUE CHARITY income £542k
• BARNSLEY INDEPENDENT ALZHEIMER'S AND DEMENTIA SUPPORT income £495k
• DIAL - GT YARMOUTH income £217k

Side by side with its peers

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