TEAM DOMENICA

Registered charity 1165494 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Team Domenica's mission is to help people with learning disabilities discover their career potential, to create employment opportunities and to remove barriers to work in local communities.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE, AND IN PARTICULAR FOR THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES INCLUDING BY THE PROMOTION OF THEIR EQUALITY, MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH, AND THEIR INDEPENDENCE (WHETHER THROUGH LEARNING AND WORK OPPORTUNITIES OR OTHERWISE).

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Brighton and Hove, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £1,164,154 for the year ended 31 July 2025, driven by a significant increase in total income to £3,643,234. The charity holds free unrestricted reserves of £439,216, a decrease from the previous year due to the designation of funds toward a new building purchase and a small deficit in operations. The trustees confirm that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Chariot House Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Investing charity funds 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

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 09862696

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Team Domenica (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• GEORGE, Gavin Robert — director, appointed 25/08/2025on trustee list
• JOHNSON, Nicholas Paul — director, appointed 11/01/2024on trustee list
• SMITH, Jane Priscilla — director, appointed 15/11/2022on trustee list
• HOWELL, Lalli — director, appointed 01/09/2019not on trustee list
• POLIZZI DI SORRENTINO, Alessandra Maria Luigia Anna — director, appointed 13/03/2018not on trustee list
• MONCKTON, Rosamond Mary, The Hon — director, appointed 09/11/2015on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold); recorded price paid £3.0m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (56% 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: 6.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alex Polizzi di Sorrentino
• Gavin Robert George
• Jane Priscilla Smith
• Laudomia Elena Howell
• Nicholas Paul Johnson
• THE HON ROSAMOND MONCKTON

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

Operates in: Brighton And Hove · East Sussex

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

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.

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• 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.