BRISTOL AFTER STROKE

Registered charity 1182124 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The objective of the charity is the support of those who have recovered from a stroke, their families and carers. The main activities to achieve this objective are information, advice and emotional support to individuals, the running of weekly social groups, provision of counselling and liaising with health professionals in the Bristol and South Gloucestershire areas.

Objects

2.1 THE CHARITABLE PURPOSES OF THE CHARITY ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH IN RELATION TO STROKES AND ALLIED MEDICAL CONDITIONS BY SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ACTIVITIES SUPPORTING PREVENTION AND FACILITATING THE TREATMENT AND THE REHABILITATION OF PATIENTS.2.2 THE ABOVE PURPOSES ARE THE CHARITY’S CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE 2011 ACT. FOR AS LONG AS THE CHARITY IS REGISTERED AS A CHARITY IN ENGLAND AND WALES, ITS PURPOSES MAY ONLY BE ALTERED WITH THE PRIOR CONSENT OF THE COMMISSION AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY CONDITIONS ATTACHED TO SUCHCONSENT.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £34,389 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds. The trustees note that unrestricted free reserves were below the stated policy target at year-end but confirm this was corrected in the following months, leaving the charity in a solid financial position.

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 11814993

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Bristol After Stroke (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• RASHID-FADEL, Tabinda — director, appointed 03/06/2025not on trustee list
• CORFIELD, Richard — director, appointed 03/06/2025on trustee list
• SMETHURST, Claire, Dr — director, appointed 15/11/2023on trustee list
• KNOWLES, Paul Victor — director, appointed 15/11/2022on trustee list
• EXELL, David — director, appointed 13/01/2020on trustee list
• HILL, Michael George Stephen — director, appointed 01/01/2020on trustee list
• SCOTT, Peter John — director, appointed 01/01/2020on trustee list
• HILL, Stephen John — director, appointed 08/02/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/05/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Exell
• Dr Claire Smethurst
• Michael Hill
• Peter Scott
• Professor Stephen Hill
• Richard Corfield
• Tabinda Rashid - Fadel

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Bristol City · North Somerset · South Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 SUCCESS AFTER STROKE.

• SUCCESS AFTER STROKE income £37k
• THE BRISTOL BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION income £511k
• STROKE CARE FOR NEWBURY AND WEST BERKSHIRE income £60k
• SUCCESS AFTER STROKE income £306k
• DIFFERENT STROKES (TRUSTEES) LIMITED income £486k
• BRISTOL SHOPMOBILITY income £43k

Side by side with its peers

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