ALDAG (ALWAYS LEARNING DEVELOPING AND GROWING)

Registered charity 1182187 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ALDAG

For the public benefit and relief in need of persons with a learning disability by the provision of facilities for: recreation or other leisure time occupation in the interests of social welfare; education; supported employment and short holiday breaks and other charitable means for such persons in Surrey, and to advance the social inclusion of those with learning disabilities.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE RELIEF IN NEED OF PERSONS WITH A LEARNING DISABILITY BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR: RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE; EDUCATION; SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT AND SHORT HOLIDAY BREAKS AND OTHER CHARITABLE MEANS FOR SUCH PERSONS IN SURREY, AND TO ADVANCE THE SOCIAL INCLUSION OF THOSE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, BY THE PROMOTION OF UNDERSTANDING, ACCEPTANCE AND INVOLVEMENT OF PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES INTO THE LOCAL COMMUNITY LIFE. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE, ÆSOCIALLY EXCLUDEDÆ MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PART OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF HAVING A LEARNING DISABILITY.

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 · Education/training · Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a net surplus of £42, bringing total unrestricted reserves to £71,756. The trustees consider the financial performance satisfactory and have a stated reserves policy to hold 12 months of funding (£54,000) to manage unforeseen difficulties. The charity is funded primarily through sales of goods and services, with unrestricted reserves significantly exceeding the stated policy target.

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
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — ALDAG (always learning, developing and growing) (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/03/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• PAMELA BETTY WALDENchair
• ANTONY LEACH
• Annette Mary Webb
• HAZEL GIBSON
• Jennifer BLACKBURN
• John Richard Ashurst · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Learning Disability Network London Limited.

• Learning Disability Network London Limited income £22.7m
• THE ALDINGBOURNE TRUST income £9.4m
• LEGACY IN THE COMMUNITY income £342k
• REACH LEARNING DISABILITY income £3.9m
• MISSION EMPLOYABLE income £1.1m
• LD:NORTHEAST income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

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