THEFDF

Registered charity 1181139 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

TheFDF provides a range of services and activities, which includes impartial, confidential, information, advice, advocacy, guidance, comfort, support and practical help to all people who have a physical and / or sensory impairment, Our aim is to overcome all social welfare and social inclusion barriers and enable everyone, as far as possible, to live an equal, inclusive and independent life.

Objects

A) THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE WITH PHYSICAL AND/OR SENSORY IMPAIRMENTS LIVING IN WALES IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION IN ACCESSIBLE FORMATS AND AN ADVICE SERVICE TO ASSIST THEM IN THEIR FURTHER INTEGRATION IN SOCIETY; ANDB) TO EDUCATE THE WIDER PUBLIC BY RAISING AWARENESS IN ALL MATTERS RELATING TO PEOPLE WITH PHYSICAL AND/OR SENSORY IMPAIRMENTS; ANDC) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND/OR SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE; ANDD) TO PROVIDE INFORMATION, GUIDANCE, COMFORT, SUPPORT, AND PRACTICAL HELP TO ALL DISABLED AND DISADVANTAGED PEOPLE.

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: Flintshire, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £4,256 for the year ended 31 March 2025, reversing a deficit from the previous year. Free reserves stood at £33,811, providing a buffer against current liabilities. The filing confirms that resources are adequate with no material uncertainties identified by the independent examiner.

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 4 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
• 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALLEN BEWLEYchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Elisabeth Ivy Copeland
• Janet Underwood
• Victoria April Roskams

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

Operates in: Throughout Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SALFORD DISABILITY FORUM.

• SALFORD DISABILITY FORUM income £31k
• THE DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTRE income £576k
• PARITY FOR DISABILITY income £1.9m
• THE FAMILY CENTRE (DEAF CHILDREN) income £140k
• CAMDEN DISABILITY ACTION income £592k
• THE INTEGRATION TRUST LIMITED income £395k

Side by side with its peers

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