STEP AND LEARN

Registered charity 1148686 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We offer free Conductive Education for children with Cerebral Palsy and associated motor disorders. We take children from birth up to the age of five from Tuesdays to Fridays, and from five to sixteen on Saturdays. A summer and winter club is also provided out of term time. We operate throughout Kent. Currently we have 53 children.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE CARE, WELFARE, INTEREST, TREATMENT, EDUCATION AND ADVANCEMENT IN THE MEDWAY TOWN AND DISTRICT OF CEREBRAL PALSIED PERSONS (WHICH EXPRESSION IN THESE PRESENTS SHALL MEAN AND INCLUDE PERSONS SUFFERING FROM ANY FORM OF CERBRAL PALSY AND OTHER DISABLED PERSONS, AND IN FURTHERANCE OF THAT OBJECT:(A) TO PROVIDE, MAINTAIN AND CONDUCT CLINICS, TREATMENT AND TRAINING CENTRES, NURSERIES, DAY AND RESIDENTIAL SERVICES, EMPLOYMENT CENTRES, HOLIDAY CAMPS AND HOMES, CLUBS, HOSTELS AND OTHER FOUNDATIONS.(B) TO PROVIDE AND ENCOURAGE THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR DIAGNOSIS, MEDICAL PHYSICAL AND SURGICAL TREATMENT WITH ALL NECESSARY APPLIANCES, THERAPIES AND EDUCATION.(C) TO TAKE ALL MEASURES TO ASSIST CEREBRAL PALSIED PERSONS AND OTHER DISABLED PERSONS, SO FAR ASIT IS POSSIBLE, TO ACHIEVE SELF DETERMINATION.(D) TO PROMOTE, CONDUCT, ENGAGE IN RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTAL WORK CALCULATED TO BE OF BENEFITTO CEREBRAL PALSIED PERSONS AND INTO THE PREVENTION OF CEREBRAL PALSY.(E) TO COLLECT AND DISSEMINATE INFORMATION RELATING TO THE FORE-GOING OBJECTS AND EXCHANGE SUCH INFORMATION WITH OTHER BODIES HAVING SIMILAR OBJECTS AND SPECIFICALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY;(1) TO CAUSE TO BE WRITTEN AND PRINTED OR OTHERWISE ORIGINATED OR REPRODUCED, ANDTO BE PUBLISHED OR CIRCULATED WHETHER GRATUITOUSLY OR NOT ANY NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, MAGAZINES, BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, LEAFLETS, OR OTHER DOCUMENTS OR FILMS OR RECORDED TAPES;(2) TO ARRANGE AND PROVIDE FOR OR JOIN IN ARRANGING AND PROVIDING FOR THE HOLDING OF EXHIBITIONS, MEETINGS, LECTURES, CLASSES, SEMINARS AND TRAINING COURSES.(F) TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, TO MAKE GRANTS AND DONATIONS TO PROVIDE, EQUIPMENT AND APPARATUS FOR CEREBRAL PALSIED PERSONS OR OTHER DISABLED PERSONS AND GENERALLY TO PROVIDE ANY SUCH OTHER ASSISTANCE TO LOCAL OR CENTRAL AUTHORITIES OR OTHER BODIES OF PERSONS CALCULATED TO BE OF BENEFIT TO CEREBRAL PALSIED PERSONS COLLECTIVELY OR INDIVIDUALLY.

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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Registered contact address: Gravesham, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £17,413, which the trustees acknowledge covers only four months of running costs, creating a dependency on successful future grant applications and fundraising to mitigate uncertainty. While the charity reported a net income surplus of £10,076 for the year, the trustees explicitly noted that the success of their efforts to enhance reserves is not certain.

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
• Internal charity financial controls 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)

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 02/02/2023, 2 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Step and Learn (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/03/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Patrick Lenard Bardenchair
• Charlotte Streatfield
• Karen Sheppard
• Lianne Bealey

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

Operates in: Kent · Medway

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Steps Conductive Education Centre.

• Steps Conductive Education Centre income £244k
• STICK 'N' STEP income £595k
• CHILDREN ACHIEVING LIFELONG MOVEMENT income £32k
• THE RAINBOW CENTRE FOR CONDUCTIVE EDUCATION LTD income £1.1m
• STEPPING STONES COLLABORATION FOR RECOVERY AND WELLBEING income £228k
• HEEL AND TOE LTD income £961k

Side by side with its peers

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