SPECIALEFFECT.ORG.UK LIMITED

Registered charity 1121004 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SPECIALEFFECT, SPECIALEFFECT ORG UK, SPECIALEFFECT.ORG.UK

SpecialEffect is dedicated to helping ALL young disabled people to enjoy computer games and to help people with severe disabilities to have freedom via technology. Projects: Stargaze+, helping people who have severe injuries; Loan Library, for people to determine the appropriate equipment for their needs: Roadshows, games roadshows for people with disabilities; Gamebase, online gaming information.

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity raised over £2.2m in donations and £161,000 in interest income, resulting in a net deficit of £167,001 for the year. The trustees report that free reserves of approximately £4.5m are broadly in line with their policy target of 18 months' budgeted operating costs, which was estimated at c.£4.6m. The auditors confirmed that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Wenn Townsend. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

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

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dr Mick Donegan — Founder and CEO (source)
• Tom Donegan — Chief Operations Officer (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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/01/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~25.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (93% 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: 25.6% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• CAROLINE VLIELAND FRIENDchair
• Carl Frank Stone
• Dr Charlotte Glen Fairweather
• Dr Rodney Densham
• Dr SIMON BENNETT
• Pamela Elkerton
• Robert John Camm

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with EVERYONE CAN.

• EVERYONE CAN income £160k
• EQUALITY TOGETHER income £1.2m
• THE IAN KARTEN CHARITABLE TRUST income £447k
• INFOCUS CHARITY income £10.6m
• DISABILITY SHEFFIELD CENTRE FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING LIMITED income £994k
• DISABLED LIVING income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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