POTS UK

Registered charity 1159813 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as POSTURAL TACHYCARDIA SYNDROM UNITED KINGDOM

Providing evidenced based information in the form of a website and information leaflets suitable for patient and medical professionals.Run educational and support meetings Encourage journal publications Support researchProduce a newsletter for membersSupport Fundraising activitiesLobby for improved services for patientsSupport clinicians in service development

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:1) FOR THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH OF THOSE SUFFERING FROM POSTURAL TACHYCARDIA SYNDROME (POTS);2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ALL ASPECTS OF THE SYNDROME, IN PARTICULAR THOSE INVOLVED IN THE DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT AND CARE OF THOSE SUFFERING FROM POTS; AND3) TO CARRY OUT, OR TO PROVIDE FUNDS TO SUPPORT RESEARCH INTO POTS, ITS CAUSES, TREATMENT AND CURE AND PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Stratford-on-Avon, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £67,460 against total expenditure of £72,428, resulting in a net deficit. The trustees report that the outlook remains positive and that careful management of funds is essential to maintain the charity's healthy position.

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.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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)

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.

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 05/04/2023 (received 10/02/2024, 5 days after the 05/02/2024 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 — PoTS UK (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr LESLEY KAVIchair
• Alex Wigley
• Chloe Louise Smerklo
• Dr MORWENNA OPIE
• Lisa Amy Bradford
• MICHAELA CORNES

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Side by side with its peers

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