SADS UK

Registered charity 1113681 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ASHLEY JOLLY SAD TRUST, ASHLEY JOLLY SUDDEN ADULT DEATH TRUST, SUDDEN ARRHYTHMIC DEATH SYNDROME

Donates cardiac equipment such as defibrillators to schools & other organisations and heart monitors to medical establishments. Organises lifesaving training to staff, pupils & general public. Supports children & adults living with heart rhythm conditions. Supports people who have been bereaved through sudden cardiac death and sets up memorial funds. Holds support group meetings & retreats.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS OF PERSONS WHO HAVE SUFFERED FROM SUDDEN BEREAVEMENT OR WHO ARE AWARE THAT THEY OR A FAMILY MEMBER ARE SUSCEPTIBLE TO POTENTIALLY SUDDEN DEATH THROUGH CERTAIN MEDICAL CONDITIONS, PARTICULARLY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT AND INFORMATION AND THE PROVISION OF FUNDS TO SUPPLY APPROPRIATE PREVENTATIVE EQUIPMENT (NOT NORMALLY MET FROM STATUTORY FUNDS) TO ASSIST IN DIMINISHING THE RISK OF SUDDEN DEATH.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sevenoaks, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided document is an incomplete Annual Report and does not contain the financial statements or notes required to determine the charity's financial health. Specific figures for income, expenditure, and reserves are missing from the text, with the financial review section containing only placeholders.

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 3 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

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• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05679989

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — SADS UK (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• NICEL, Joy Jennifer — director, appointed 04/02/2016on trustee list
• LILLIS, Ann — director, appointed 26/01/2007on trustee list
• MORRIS, Angela — director, appointed 26/01/2007on trustee list
• JOLLY, John — director, appointed 19/01/2006on trustee list
• IRVING, Frank — director, appointed 19/01/2006on trustee list

Official officers record.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• ANGELA MORRIS
• ANN LILLIS
• FRANK IRVING
• JOHN JOLLY · trustee of 1 other charity
• JOY NICEL

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SALFORD HEART CARE.

• SALFORD HEART CARE income £47k
• HEARTBEAT UK income £40k
• SARCOIDOSISUK income £185k
• LONDON HEARTS income £5.4m
• THE SUSSEX HEART CHARITY income £361k
• DS43 COMMUNITY DEFIBRILLATORS income £29k

Side by side with its peers

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