DISABILITY CAN DO

Registered charity 1163190 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DCD

Disability Can Do works with, and supports disabled adults and carers to break down the barriers, big and small, that restrict their life choices and opportunities.We place their needs at the centre of our services and empower people by providing information, advice and support that enables them to make informed decisions and choices in their lives and improves their overall well-being.

Objects

1) THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF THEIR DISABILITY OR SENSORY IMPAIRMENT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY IMPROVING THE AVAILABILITY OF INFORMATION, ADVICE AND COMMUNITY ADVOCACY SERVICES FOR SUCH PERSONS AND THEIR CARERS.2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN ALL AREAS RELATING TO DISABLED PERSONS AND THEIR CARERS.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income surplus of £17,734 for the year, with total funds carried forward increasing to £42,090. However, the trustees report that overall funding remains short-term and uncertain, noting that a failure to secure future funding poses a real threat to the charity's ability to continue service delivery.

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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/06/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ROGER BEVANchair
• HELEN AMBERRY
• JONATHAN CURTIS
• Maurice Alexander McCartney

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

Operates in: Blaenau Gwent · Caerphilly

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ACTION ON DISABILITY.

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• DISABILITY DIRECT income £4.2m
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• DISABILITY STOCKPORT CIO income £1.5m
• DISABILITY CORNWALL AND THE ISLES OF SCILLY income £2.5m
• DISABILITY ACTION YORKSHIRE income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

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