DISABILITY SUPPORT PROJECT

Registered charity 1177602 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DSP

We help our clients in a variety of ways ensuring they are able to live independently and are financially stable. We help filling forms issued by the DWP and support throughout the process attending tribunal when we need to and we offer general advice. We provide assistance with budgets and helping people live within their means, for more complex cases we offer appointeeships and money management.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS AND THE RELIEF OF OTHER NEEDS ASSOCIATED WITH THEIR DISABILITY BY PROVIDING SUPPORT, ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE RELEVANT TO THEIR NEEDS.

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 · Disability · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that for the year ending 2025-01-10, the charity received total income of £769,095.05 and incurred total expenses of £768,364.64. This resulted in a small surplus of £730.41, indicating that operational spending was largely covered by incoming funds.

Automated summary of the FY2025 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints 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
• 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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 10/01/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (87% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• MR ALEX POWELL

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with INDIVIDUAL CARE SERVICES.

• INDIVIDUAL CARE SERVICES income £7.0m
• INDEPENDENT LIVES (DISABILITY) income £3.4m
• DRIVE income £25.2m
• HAVERING ASSOCIATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES income £131k
• SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING income £3.5m
• THE DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTRE income £576k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.