ASIAN PEOPLE'S DISABILITY ALLIANCE LIMITED

Registered charity 1140090 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as APDA

To provide needs-led and user-led culturally appropriate services and act as a point of resource for Disabled people, their carers and families. To work in partnership and collaboration with service planners to support the needs of Disabled People. To deliver culturally sensitive and appropriate services for Asian Disabled people and their Carers.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF DISABLED PERSONS, IN PARTICULAR PERSONS FROM THE ASIAN COMMUNITY

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED.

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · website · Get email alerts

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

Latest income
£711k
Latest spending
£715k
Registered
2011
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £711,529 and total expenditure was £715,095, resulting in a small deficit. The filing notes that the organization faced 'very challenging financial times' and 'rising costs', yet services continued without interruption.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Chapmans Associates Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. 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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

  • Volunteers: 2
  • Government income: £24,589 — grants £24,589 (2); 3% of the £711,160 total gross income on the same return
  • Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£70,001–£80,000: 1)

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

  • Volunteers: 2
  • Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£70,001–£80,000: 1)
  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; other trustee benefit

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

  • Volunteers: 9
  • Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£60,001–£70,000: 1)

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

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

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

Total income
£711k
Total spending
£715k
Reserves (reported)
£216k
Employees
44

Reported reserves equal ~3.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Bangladesh · Burma · Throughout London

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£711k£715k
31/03/2024£678k£686k
31/03/2023£552k£674k
31/03/2022£557k£502k
31/03/2021£566k£451k

Common questions

Is ASIAN PEOPLE'S DISABILITY ALLIANCE LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that total income for the year was £711,529 and total expenditure was £715,095, resulting in a small deficit. The filing notes that the organization faced 'very challenging financial times' and 'rising costs', yet services continued without interruption. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Chapmans Associates Limited.

Who funds ASIAN PEOPLE'S DISABILITY ALLIANCE LIMITED?

Funders whose own accounts filings name ASIAN PEOPLE'S DISABILITY ALLIANCE LIMITED as a grant recipient include EDWARD HARVIST (ALSO KNOWN AS THE HARVIST ESTATE).

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
EDWARD HARVIST (ALSO KNOWN AS THE HARVIST ESTATE)FY2025£5kHappy, Healthy & Inclusive

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund18/03/2021£49k(wave 5 LCRF) APDA
Greater London Authority01/01/2015£2kGrant to Asian People's Disability Alliance

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 ALLERDALE DISABILITY ASSOCIATION.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
ASIAN PEOPLE'S DISABILITY ALLIANCE LIMITED£711k—0unclear—no doubt
ALLERDALE DISABILITY ASSOCIATION FY2026£102k—0below—noted
HAVERING ASSOCIATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES FY2026£124k—0above—no doubt
POSSABILITY PEOPLE LIMITED FY2025£1.5mGreater than £60,0001unclear—no doubt
ASIAN SOCIAL & HUMANITARIAN ASSOCIATION FY2025£142k—0unclear—no doubt
SANDWELL ASIAN FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICE LIMITED FY2025£872k——above—no doubt

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