KENT ASSOCIATION FOR SPINA BIFIDA AND HYDROCEPHALUS

Registered charity 1123362 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

KASBAH support individuals with physical and/or learning disabilities including the families and carers throughout Kent and Medway.We will actively promote empowerment and inclusion into all aspects of our member's life and living with support, guidance, information, advocacy and understanding. We also specialise in independence training for young adults with any additional needs.

Objects

THE ASSOCIATION IS ESTABLISHED TO SUPPORT PERSONS WHO HAVE SPINA BIFIDA AND/OR HYDROCEPHALUS, OR RELATED CONDITIONS WHO ARE RESIDENT IN THE BENEFICIAL AREA. KASBAH WILL ACTIVELY PROMOTE THEIR EMPOWERMENT AND INCLUSION INTO ALL ASPECT OF LIFE AND LIVING

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED IN PRACTICE KENT MEDWAY UNITARY AUTHORITY

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £354,471 on a turnover of £2,929,472, maintaining a strong financial position with increased cash in bank due to historical debt recovery. The farm is now self-sufficient, and the organization has worked hard to ensure a strong financial position at year end despite challenging economic conditions.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Lindeyer Francis Ferguson. Discloses 4 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06465666

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Princess Christian's Farm (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Emma Carver — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Liz Read — Deputy CEO (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.

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.

• MAWBY, James Philip George, Dr — director, appointed 09/01/2026on trustee list
• ANDERSON, Erin Jolene — director, appointed 30/09/2025on trustee list
• BURTON, Pia Lind Rathje — director, appointed 30/09/2025not on trustee list
• WALKER, Mark, Mr. — director, appointed 30/09/2025on trustee list
• CALIANDRO, Abbi Claire Louise — director, appointed 15/09/2022on trustee list
• CROSS, Sara Ann — director, appointed 21/09/2021on trustee list
• CARVER, Emma Tracy Louise — secretary, appointed 07/01/2008

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

6 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold); recorded price paid £870k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Kent Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus — Registered, 1 registered location, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 08/10/2021.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% 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: 1.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

• Gingerbread Office: Good (27/10/2021) · CQC record

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr James Philip George Mawbychair
• Abbi Claire Louise Caliandro
• Erin Anderson
• Pia Rathje-Burton
• Sara Ann Cross
• Stephen Bramwell Field
• mark walker · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Kent · Medway

Income and spending

Common questions

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

• KHAAS income £147k
• THE KENT AUTISTIC TRUST income £10.5m
• KENT PARENTS AND CARERS TOGETHER income £119k
• Headway Kent income £252k
• NORTH AND WEST YORKSHIRE ASSOCIATION FOR SPINA BIFIDA AND HYDROCEPHALUS income £81k
• KENT ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND income £5.5m

Side by side with its peers

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