WADE

Registered charity 1178937 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE WOKINGHAM AND DISTRICT ASSOCIATION FOR THE ELDERLY, THE WOKINGHAM AND DISTRICT ASSOCIATION FOR THE ELDERLY (WADE)

Day Centre for the older residents of the Wokingham Borough over 50 years of age.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF THE ELDERLY IN ANY MANNER WHICH BY LAW IS DEEMED TO BE CHARITABLE AND WITHIN THE WOKINGHAM BOROUGH COUNCIL AREA.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a total deficit of £111,632 for the year ended 30 June 2025, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted funds from £348,101 to £236,469. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted funds remain satisfactory and the charity has sufficient funds to meet its obligations despite the deficit. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and has no disclosed trading subsidiaries or related-party transactions.

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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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 — Wade (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• Wokingham Lions — “As this was The Wokingham Lions 30th May Fayre, they chose 30 Charities to donate to including Wade for making a meaningful difference to th…” (source page)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~7.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (72% 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: 18.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/06/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Lee · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dheshni Gunpath
• Fiona Kim Wright
• Louise Wingfield
• Moira Chaplin
• Sandy Sweet

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

Operates in: Wokingham

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BURWELL AND DISTRICT DAY CENTRE TRUST.

• BURWELL AND DISTRICT DAY CENTRE TRUST income £165k
• DALES-CARE income £75k
• THE WYCHWOODS DAY CENTRE LIMITED income £27k
• CONCERN WADEBRIDGE income £208k
• AGE UK WAKEFIELD DISTRICT income £3.0m
• HOWARD GARDEN SOCIAL AND DAY CARE CENTRE income £91k

Side by side with its peers

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