DOWN'S SOUTH LONDON

Registered charity 1123045 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DOWN'S SOUTH

The principal activity of the Charity is to provide specialist speech and language therapy, occupational therapy and physiotherapy services to children with Down's Syndrome, living in South London. The group is open to all children with Down's Syndrome and their parents or carers who live locally. There are no formal membership criteria or fees.

Objects

1 TO PROVIDE A LOCAL INFORMATION AND SUPPORT NETWORK FOR PEOPLE DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY AFFECTED BY DOWN'S SYNDROME AND IN PARTICULAR FOR CHILDREN WITH DOWN'S SYNDROME, THEIR FAMILIES AND OTHER CARERS, AND THE PROFESSIONALS WHO COME ITO REGULAR CONTACT WITH THEM;2 TO PROVIDE OR SECURE THE PROVISION OF SERVICES (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPY) FOR PEOPLE WITH DOWN'S SYNDROME, TO ENABLE THEM TO DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS AND ABILITIES; AND3 TO UNDERTAKE ANY OTHER CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES IN CONNECTION WITH DOWN'S SYNDROME.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE LONDON

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a loss of £6,701 for the year ended 31 December 2025, driven by a decrease in donations despite lower overall costs. However, the filing notes that the company maintains strong financial health with £140,605 in net assets and £141,207 in cash at year-end. The directors confirm the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis.

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 2 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.

• 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
• 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)

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Down's South London (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Aelene Elizabeth Thorne
• Andrew Aylwin · trustee of 1 other charity
• Angela Aimee Gough
• GUN AKYUZ · trustee of 1 other charity
• George Joseph James Hampson
• Livia Campello Lang
• Natalia Beatriz Piaggio

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

Operates in: Greenwich · Lambeth · Lewisham · Southwark · Wandsworth

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DOWN SYNDROME TRAINING AND SUPPORT SERVICE LIMITED.

• DOWN SYNDROME TRAINING AND SUPPORT SERVICE LIMITED income £161k
• DOWN SYNDROME UK income £455k
• EAST LANCASHIRE DOWN'S SYNDROME SUPPORT GROUP income £74k
• DOWNS SYNDROME RESEARCH FOUNDATION LIMITED income £30k
• PORTSMOUTH DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION income £339k
• SUNSHINE AND SMILES - LEEDS DOWN SYNDROME NETWORK income £389k

Side by side with its peers

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