THE INCLUDE PROJECT

Registered charity 1177785 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Include.org provides creative community activities, training and consultancy to make the world more welcoming for people with understanding or speaking difficulties. We empower people with communication needs to help train inclusive communication partners within The Include Choir. We teach a range of evidence-based techniques to help others include people with communication needs.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:(A) THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF COMMUNICATION, MEMORY OR LEARNING DIFFICULTIES; AND(B) THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION AMONGST THOSE WHO HAVE COMMUNICATION, LEARNING OR MEMORY DIFFICULTIES AND WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF THEIR DISABILITY;THROUGH SUCH TRAINING, EDUCATION AND SERVICES AS THE TRUSTEES DEEM APPROPRIATE.NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CIO FOR THE PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005 AND SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008.

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

Causes: Disability · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year ended 31 March 2025 was £170,011, resulting in a small net surplus of £875. The charity holds unrestricted free reserves of £99,264, which falls within the trustees' recommended range of £88,807 to £108,835. The trustees report no concerns regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Include.org (matched by registered charity number).

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (20/07/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Bethany Farr
• Catherine Joan Wood
• Emma McKenzie
• Felicity Harrison
• Harriet Ayhan
• Heike Knip
• Jamie Bensted
• Martin Cornford
• Nigel Leach
• Sarah Jayne Manson

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

Operates in: Kent · Oxfordshire · Surrey · Throughout London · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 THE INTEGRATION TRUST LIMITED.

• THE INTEGRATION TRUST LIMITED income £395k
• THE INCLUSIVE CHURCH NETWORK income £52k
• INCLUSION LONDON income £1.3m
• INCLUSION GLOUCESTERSHIRE income £1.0m
• Inspiring Communities for Integration and Cohesion income £485k
• GATEWAY INTO THE COMMUNITY income £843k

Side by side with its peers

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