CAMDEN DISABILITY ACTION

Registered charity 1162787 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CDA

facilitating involvement of deaf and disabled people, identifying needs and developing projects to meet these and raising awareness of disabled people's needs within statutory agencies and delivering training and building individual capacity of disabled people so that they are enabled to have choice and control over their lives and able to participate in their local communities.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, INCLUDING THOSE WITH A PHYSICAL, SENSORY, COGNITIVE OR HIDDEN IMPAIRMENTS, IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF CAMDEN AND ENVIRONS WITH A VIEW TO HELPING THEM IDENTIFY AND MEET THEIR OWN NEEDS AND MAINTAIN CHOICE, CONTROL AND INDEPENDENCE IN THEIR LIVES BY:A) PROVIDING ADVICE, ADVOCACY AND INFORMATION TO DISABLED PEOPLE TO HELP THEM ACCESS SERVICES, ENTITLEMENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES, INCLUDING INFORMATION AND ADVICE; B) PROVIDING TRAINING AND SUPPORT FOR DISABLED PEOPLE;C) EFFECTIVELY REPRESENTING THE VIEWS, NEEDS AND INTERESTS OF DISABLED PEOPLE.

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: Camden, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a net deficit of £6,793 for the year ended 31 March 2025, compared to a surplus in the prior year. However, the trustees confirm the charity is a going concern, citing free reserves of £248,990 and adequate funding to support continuation in the medium term.

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
• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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 30/09/2021 (received 14/12/2022, 137 days after the 30/07/2022 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (65% 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: 23.6% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Patrick Stackchair
• Anna Harris
• Anna Landre
• Joy Palmer
• Joyce Yankey
• Larraine Revah · trustee of 1 other charity
• MARY HYNES
• Priscilla Eyles
• Quilliass Huntesmith
• Reza Reshad · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stephen Bitti

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

Operates in: Camden

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CAMDEN SOCIETY.

• THE CAMDEN SOCIETY income £8.5m
• CAMDEN PEOPLE FIRST income £81k
• DISABILITY ADVICE SERVICE LAMBETH income £629k
• CAMDEN GIVING income £1.7m
• COMMUNITY ACTION DERBY LTD income £3.1m
• APASEN income £15.0m

Side by side with its peers

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