FND ACTION

Registered charity 1169554 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Raise awareness of Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) and provide information, education, and support across the UK. As a patient-led charity, we work with healthcare professionals, researchers, and associated organisations, develop regional community groups to connect and inform those affected and carers, and lead advocacy to improve understanding, recognition, care pathways and services.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND PRESERVATION OF HEALTH OF PERSONS SUFFERING WITH FUNCTIONAL NEUROLOGICAL DISORDER, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY: (1) RAISING AWARENESS OF FUNCTIONAL NEUROLOGICAL SYMPTOMS THROUGH THE PROVISION OF CURRENT INFORMATION TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC, HEALTH SECTOR, CAREGIVERS, AND THOSE SUFFERING FROM THESE SYMPTOMS.(2) PROMOTING AWARENESS OF FUNCTIONAL NEUROLOGICAL SYMPTOMS THROUGH CHARITABLE EVENTS, MEETINGS, SOCIAL MEDIA, ONLINE AND OFFLINE RESOURCES, INFORMATION PACKS, LEAFLETS, AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS AS REQUIRED FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.(3) PROMOTING ONGOING RESEARCH FOR FUNCTIONAL NEUROLOGICAL SYMPTOMS BY ENCOURAGING PARTICIPATION THROUGH OUR WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA, AND PUBLISHING RESULTS.'

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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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The provided document is an Annual Report containing narrative sections on activities, governance, and vision, but it does not include the Financial Reporting section (pages 07-10 are listed in the contents but contain no financial data in the text provided). Consequently, no specific financial figures regarding income, expenditure, or reserves are stated to assess financial health.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Danya Mackenzie
• Eric Rosser
• Jenay Brehm
• Lisa Jane Dickinson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richmond Stace
• Timothy Richard Joseph Nicholson
• William Alexander Thomas Plender

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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