21 TOGETHER

Registered charity 1165305 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Raising Expectations in the Down's syndrome community. We provide training, therapy/interventions for children and young people, parent support and awareness sessions for the wider community.

Objects

1. To relieve the needs of people with Down's syndrome, living particularly but not exclusively in Kent and their families and carers through provision of training, support, education and practical advice, and by such other means as the trustees may determine.2. To advance the education of the public and in particular the parents and carers of people with down's syndrome and professionals involved in their care and education, in the specific needs and abilities of people with down's syndrome.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Maidstone, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £115,333 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £345,173 to £229,840. The trustees confirm the charity remains a going concern with adequate resources, noting that its strong reserves position has allowed it to sustain core services despite a difficult financial climate and reduced grant funding. The charity's unrestricted reserves are £106,046, which is above its stated policy target of £100,000.

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
• 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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Cobtree Charitable Trust — “Thank you to our 2025/26 Funders: Including Cobtree Charitable Trust and The Hale Trust” (source page)
• The Hale Trust — “Thank you to our 2025/26 Funders: Including Cobtree Charitable Trust and The Hale Trust” (source page)
• Alchemy Foundation — “Thank you to our 2024/25 Funders: Including Cllr Dylan Jeffrey, Alchemy Foundation, Percy Bolton, David Solomon’s Charitable Trust, Douglas …” (source page)
• David Solomon’s Charitable Trust — “Thank you to our 2024/25 Funders: Including Cllr Dylan Jeffrey, Alchemy Foundation, Percy Bolton, David Solomon’s Charitable Trust, Douglas …” (source page)
• The Mrs Smith & Mount Trust — “Thank you to our 2023/24 funders: Including: The Mrs Smith & Mount Trust, Felicity Wilde Charitable Trust, Cobtree Charitable Trust, The Hal…” (source page)
• Felicity Wilde Charitable Trust — “Thank you to our 2023/24 funders: Including: The Mrs Smith & Mount Trust, Felicity Wilde Charitable Trust, Cobtree Charitable Trust, The Hal…” (source page)
• St James Place Foundation — “Thank you to our 2023/24 funders: Including: The Mrs Smith & Mount Trust, Felicity Wilde Charitable Trust, Cobtree Charitable Trust, The Hal…” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Melissa Jones
• Rebecca Clark
• Sinead Patricia Mary Ainsworth
• Stephen Sibbald
• Toyin Olukoya

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 21 PLUS.

• 21 PLUS income £83k
• T21 income £228k
• EAST LANCASHIRE DOWN'S SYNDROME SUPPORT GROUP income £74k
• DOWN SYNDROME UK income £455k
• Together Collective income £717k
• DOWN'S SYNDROME ASSOCIATION income £2.7m

Side by side with its peers

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