CENTRE FOR THE ACCELERATION OF SOCIAL TECHNOLOGY

Registered charity 1161998 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To support charities and funders to use digital technologies to achieve charitable outcomes.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CHARITIES AND THE EFFECTIVE USE OF CHARITABLE RESOURCES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROVIDING SERVICES TO CHARITIES WHICH SUPPORT AND ACCELERATE THE USE OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION IN FURTHERING CHARITABLE PURPOSES; ANDTO FURTHER SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES THROUGH THE USE OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

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: Stroud, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a net income of £312,853 for the year ended 31 March 2026, with total income of £1.22 million. Unrestricted reserves stood at £110,941, which is below the stated risk-based reserves target of £218,000, although total free reserves were within the target range. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Gibson Whitter Limited. Discloses 6 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 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 09544506

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dan Sutch — Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Deloitte — “Find out more about our successful programmes with Deloitte and Sport England , as well as our Tech for Good work with Comic Relief and Paul…” (source page)
• Sport England — “Find out more about our successful programmes with Deloitte and Sport England , as well as our Tech for Good work with Comic Relief and Paul…” (source page)
• Comic Relief — “Find out more about our successful programmes with Deloitte and Sport England , as well as our Tech for Good work with Comic Relief and Paul…” (source page)
• Paul Hamlyn Foundation — “Find out more about our successful programmes with Deloitte and Sport England , as well as our Tech for Good work with Comic Relief and Paul…” (source page)
• The Clothworkers' Foundation — “- The Clothworkers' Foundation : Providing support on all applications for digital infrastructure grants, both Large and Small, under the Op…” (source page)
• The National Lottery Community Fund — “- Community-powered AI : Working with The National Lottery Community Fund and UK Community Foundations on a new £3m initiative designed to h…” (source page)
• UK Community Foundations — “- Community-powered AI : Working with The National Lottery Community Fund and UK Community Foundations on a new £3m initiative designed to h…” (source page)
• Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales — “- Investing in the Power of Civil Society : We're working with The National Lottery Community Fund, Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and W…” (source page)
• Esmée Fairbairn Foundation — “With funding from Esmée Fairbairn Foundation , CAST convened a network of support for nonprofits from July 2024 until July 2026.” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• COLE, Ha Thi Thu — director, appointed 24/09/2024on trustee list
• GRANGER, Nicola Jane — director, appointed 24/09/2024on trustee list
• BURNS, Lara Sophia — director, appointed 25/11/2020on trustee list
• FASSO, Gaia-Ines — director, appointed 25/11/2020on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~1.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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: 1.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gaia-Ines Fassochair
• Ha Thi Thu Cole
• Lara Burns
• Nicola Jane Granger · trustee of 1 other charity

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

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).

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 CHARITY DIGITAL TRUST.

• CHARITY DIGITAL TRUST income £2.7m
• GLOBAL SOURCENET income £49k
• THE CENTRE FOR INNOVATION IN VOLUNTARY ACTION income £1.1m
• National Centre For Universities and Business income £2.8m
• CHARITY VOICE income £31k
• DIGITAL ADVANTAGE income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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