DOWNRIGHT EXCELLENT

Registered charity 1120863 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DOWNWRIGHT EXCELLENT

Educational therapies for children with Downs Syndrome and their families/carers.

Objects

To help children with Down syndrome to develop their life skills so they may reach their full potential as individuals and equally participating members of society through, especially but not exclusively:• educational programmes;• quality play;• education and support for parents and carers; and• education and support for siblings

Area of benefit: IN LONDON.

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Brent, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £21,701, which the trustees describe as not being at a reasonable level despite recent improvements. The charity reported a surplus of £58,387 for the period, supported by total income of £224,204, while operating without a permanent CEO.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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
• 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 30/03/2025 (received 27/03/2026, 56 days after the 30/01/2026 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06249083

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Downright Excellent (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• Phoenix Court Works — “Below are our current funders and supporters. Phoenix Court Works” (source page)

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.

• OSTLER, Hayley — director, appointed 19/09/2024on trustee list
• CAVANAGH, James Michael Gareth — director, appointed 19/09/2024on trustee list
• PUNT, Carly Elizabeth — director, appointed 19/09/2024not on trustee list
• HOLMBOE, Conrad Dag — director, appointed 19/09/2024on trustee list
• PARR, Ben — director, appointed 19/09/2024on trustee list
• LIANG, Melody Yue — director, appointed 27/01/2022on trustee list
• THAYALASEELAN, Rajeelan — director, appointed 01/10/2020on trustee list
• GUDHKA, Nishad Himatlal — director, appointed 28/09/2013on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• James Davischair
• Ben Parr
• Carly Pickin
• Conrad Holmboe
• Hayley Ostler
• James Cavanagh
• Melody Yue Liang
• Nishad Gudhka
• RAJEELAN THAYALASEELAN

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

Operates in: Ireland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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

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 DOWN SYNDROME DEVELOPMENT TRUST.

• DOWN SYNDROME DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £365k
• DOWN SYNDROME GROUP NORTHAMPTONSHIRE income £32k
• DOWN SYNDROME EDUCATION INTERNATIONAL income £287k
• DOWN SYNDROME UK income £455k
• DRAVET SYNDROME UK income £640k
• DISABILITY STOCKPORT CIO income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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