DIAL SOUTH ESSEX

Registered charity 1155514 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DIAL BASILDON AND SOUTH ESSEX

DIAL provides a free, confidential information and advice service on all issues affecting disabled people to help them to improve their quality of life. We can help with benefit checks for Income Maximisation, benefit application form completion, appeals and information on equipment, holidays, leisure, community care, independent living, mobility, transport and any other problem they may have.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE HEALTH, EQUALITY AND INDEPENDENCE OF DISABLED PEOPLE IN SOUTH ESSEX AND SURROUNDING AREAS BY THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION AND ADVICE TO ASSIST THEM IN LEADING ACTIVE AND FULFILLING LIVES.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity managed to secure several new funding streams and retain reserves to provide a buffer for difficult times. Although outgoings increased due to the cost-of-living crisis, the organization finished the year with a balance to carry forward, indicating it can continue to operate at its current level.

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

What the accounts disclose

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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/01/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW PENSON
• Isabella Lennon
• JANET GREENSMITH
• Jackie Nixon
• Kim Skinner
• Matthew Atkinson
• Paul Hayden

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

Operates in: Essex · Southend-on-sea · Thurrock

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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