DARLINGTON ASSOCIATION ON DISABILITY

Registered charity 1125848 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DAD

Darlington Association on Disability was established in 1986 as a voluntary and charitable organisation led by disabled people. It exists to promote independence and choice, and supports disabled people and carers through the provision of services, support and information and by tackling issues locally and nationally. DAD promotes the social model of disability.

Objects

1 TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF DISABLED PEOPLE AND CARERS, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, RESIDENT IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DARLINGTON AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND INDEPENDENCE THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SERVICES, SUPPORT, INFORMATION AND TRAINING; AND2 TO DIRECT, PROMOTE AND SUPPORT THE EFFICIENT WORKING OF CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS, VOLUNTARY BODIES AND STATUTORY BODIES IN THEIR WORK TO RELIEVE DISABILITY ('THE OBJECTS').

Area of benefit: DARLINGTON AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Darlington, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of £277,544, resulting in total net assets of £774,391. The trustees confirm that the organization has sufficient resources to continue operating, with unrestricted funds of £596,827 held at year-end. The independent auditors reported no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Clive Owen LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• 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

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Darlington Association on Disability (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).

• Darlington Borough Council — “Thank you to all of our Funders Darlington Borough Council” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/06/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• GORDON PYBUSchair
• COLIN LIGHT
• JOSEPH HUTCHINSON · trustee of 2 other charities
• Kevin Franks · trustee of 1 other charity
• PAUL EDWARDS
• Samantha Taylor
• Theresa Moss-Carbert

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

Operates in: Darlington · Durham · Hartlepool · Middlesbrough · North Yorkshire · Redcar And Cleveland · Stockton-on-tees

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 DISABILITY ACTION IN ISLINGTON.

• DISABILITY ACTION IN ISLINGTON income £209k
• BARROW AND DISTRICT DISABILITY ASSOCIATION income £334k
• DISABILITY CAN DO income £118k
• ALLERDALE DISABILITY ASSOCIATION income £102k
• DISABLEMENT ASSOCIATION OF BARKING AND DAGENHAM income £3.5m
• Durham Area Disability Leisure Group income £160k

Side by side with its peers

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