WHITBY, SCARBOROUGH AND RYEDALE DISABILITY ACTION GROUP

Registered charity 1131037 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WHITBY AND DISTRICT DISABLEMENT ACTION GROUP

WhitbyDAG provides information, advice and practical support to enable disabled people to live independently. We run Welfare benefits, Mobility Equipment Hire, Information and Befriending services and provide supported educational, social, leisure and volunteering activites.

Objects

A) TO BENEFIT DISABLED PEOPLE, ELDERLY PEOPLE AND CARERS IN WHITBY, SCARBOROUGH AND RYEDALE BY PROVIDING SERVICES WHICH FACILITATE INDEPENDENCE IN DAILY LIVING;B) TO PROMOTE ACCESS TO ALL PUBLIC BUILDINGS FOR DISABLED PEOPLE AND ELDERLY PEOPLE;C) TO ENHANCE THE INTEGRATION INTO THE COMMUNITY OF DISABLED PEOPLE, ELDERLY PEOPLE AND CARERS BY THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION AND ADVICE SERVICES TO RELIEVE THEIR NEEDS;D) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF DISABLED PEOPLE, ELDERLY PEOPLE AND CARERS, PROVIDERS OF SERVICES AND THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL BY THE PROVISION OF SUCH INFORMATION AND ADVICE SERVICES.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £1,143 for the year, reducing total funds to £53,402. The trustees acknowledge that financial sustainability remains a central concern and that the organization is focusing on stability after a period of severe financial pressure. Reserves are held across unrestricted and restricted funds, with unrestricted funds decreasing significantly from the previous year.

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 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
• 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
• 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 06956837 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• EVERITT, Roger — director, appointed 10/12/2021on trustee list
• WEIGHTMAN, Richard — director, appointed 05/11/2019on trustee list
• WILLIAMS, Sally Maureen — director, appointed 19/09/2017on trustee list
• HUTCHINSON, Michael Kenneth — director, appointed 09/09/2015on trustee list
• BOOTH, Barbara Lesley — director, appointed 09/07/2009on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/10/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/10/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (09/03/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Michael Hutchinsonchair
• BARBARA LESLEY BOOTH
• Richard Weightman
• Roger Martin Everitt
• Sally Williams

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

Operates in: North Yorkshire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• DALEWOOD TRUST income £955k
• DISABLEMENT ASSOCIATION OF BARKING AND DAGENHAM income £3.5m
• EQUALITY TOGETHER income £1.2m
• Integrating income £334k
• DISABILITY ACTION YORKSHIRE income £1.4m
• DARLINGTON ASSOCIATION ON DISABILITY income £2.1m

Side by side with its peers

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