DISABILITY SOLUTIONS WEST MIDLANDS

Registered charity 1143929 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DISABILITY SOLUTIONS

Disability Solutions provides information, advice and support to people with disabilities, their families and carers.We operate across all disabilities and ages.The range of services covers benefits,finance, equipment advice, personal health budgets and personalisation, mobility and access advice, holidays and leisure activities, consultation and representation, other health related issues.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds free unrestricted reserves of £99,088, which is below its stated policy target of holding a minimum of three months of operating costs. The trustees report a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified.

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 5 of 6 completeness components.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• National Lottery Community Fund — “DisAbility Connect A National Lottery Community Fund 3-year project offering social prescribing advice, referral and connection to community…” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (89% 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: 1.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/01/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alice Dair
• DOROTHY DUNKLEY
• David Jarvie
• EMMA BONFIGLIO
• George Robert Bell
• John Michael Astbury
• Jonathan Alexander Neil Lawton
• Sarah Ivan-Duke
• Sheila Hemming

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · Derbyshire · Shropshire · Staffordshire · Stoke-on-trent City · Telford & Wrekin · Walsall · Wolverhampton

Income and spending

Common questions

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).