WARRINGTON DISABILITY PARTNERSHIP

Registered charity 1113597 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WDP

Warrington Disability Partnership (WDP) is an internationally acclaimed user led charity. With almost 30 years experience of developing and delivering mobility and independent living services, our aim is to support disabled people and people living with long term health conditions.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEED OF DISABLED PEOPLE, THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS IN ENGLAND AND WALES THROUGH ACTIVELY PROMOTING INDEPENDENT LIVING BY PROMOTING INFORMATION ON PEER COUNSELLING, EQUIPMENT, PERSONAL ASSISTANCE, TRANSPORT, ACCESS, EMPLOYMENT, EDUCATION, TRAINING AND A RANGE OF OTHER SERVICES. ALSO BY PROVIDING A RANGE OF EQUIPMENT TO ASSIST INDEPENDENT MOBILITY.

Area of benefit: WARRINGTON

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 · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity made a profit of £191,812 for the year, with total incoming resources of £2,758,846 against expenditure of £2,556,868. However, the trustees report that significant financial pressures continue due to the cost of living crisis, and free reserves are £20,000 below the estimated three-month running cost target.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Voisey & Co LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Warrington Disability Partnership (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dave Thompson — Chief Executive (source)
• Caroline Thompson — Deputy CEO (source)
• John Gartside — Chair (source)
• David Jones — Director (source)
• Pat Ffrench — Director (source)
• Diane Sandwell — Director (source)
• Laurence Barrow — Director (source)
• Bill Bradley — Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title 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 · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (59% 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: 34.0% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/04/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• John Gartsidechair
• Adam Haines
• Anita Cawley · trustee of 2 other charities
• Anthony Brown
• David Andrew Kelsall
• Derek Jones
• Diane Sandwell
• EILEEN CAMPBELL MACDONALD
• JANICE MARY PRICHARD
• MRS PAT KITTO
• Nicola Jayne Kettley
• Susan Mary McMillan · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Liverpool City · Warrington

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WARRINGTON MENCAP.

• WARRINGTON MENCAP income £915k
• We Change Lives (WCL) income £12.0m
• DARLINGTON ASSOCIATION ON DISABILITY income £2.1m
• WARRINGTON COMMUNITY TRANSPORT income £174k
• WARRINGTON VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE income £142k
• WALTON LEA PARTNERSHIP LIMITED income £912k

Side by side with its peers

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