East Midlands Asbestos Support Team

Registered charity 1186006 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DAST, DERBYSHIRE ASBESTOS SUPPORT TEAM

We help and support anyone with an asbestos related disease. We support people throughout the East Midlands as well as Burton on Trent and Peterborough. We offer advice and support with welfare benefits uptake including the Government Compensation Schemes. We offer advice about making a civil claim. As well as acting as a support group. We also offer bereavement support.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:1. TO RELIEVE PERSONS SUFFERING FROM ASBESTOS RELATED DISEASES, THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS IN THE EAST MIDLANDS AND ITS ENVIRONS WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF THEIR AGE, ILL HEALTH OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF ADVOCACY, SUPPORT, EDUCATION, PRACTICAL ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE INCLUDING BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT FOR THOSE BEREAVED THROUGH ASBESTOS RELATED DISEASE. 2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN ALL AREAS RELEVANT TO ASBESTOS RELATED DISEASES INCLUDING THE HAZARDS POSED TO HEALTH BY ASBESTOS.3. TO RELIEVE THE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL ILL-HEALTH OF PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE EAST MIDLANDS AND ITS ENVIRONS SUFFERING BEREAVEMENT OR LOSS THROUGH ASBESTOS RELATED DISEASE BY THE PROVISION OF EMOTIONAL SUPPORT AND PRACTICAL ADVICE TO SUCH PERSONS. 4. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN ALL AREAS RELEVANT TO ASBESTOS RELATED DISEASES. 5. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN ALL AREAS RELEVANT TO THE HAZARDS POSED TO HEALTH BY ASBESTOS.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts for the year ended 31 March 2025 were subject to an independent examination rather than a full audit. The examiner confirmed that accounting records were kept as required and that the accounts accorded with those records, with no other matters requiring attention for a proper understanding of the accounts.

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 3 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/07/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• James Eadenchair
• Ann Lambert
• COLIN HAMPTON
• DAVID MACGREGOR
• Patricia Joy Clough
• Yvonne Margaret Macgregor

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

Operates in: Derby City · Derbyshire · Leicestershire · Lincolnshire · North East Lincolnshire · North Lincolnshire · Northamptonshire · Nottingham City · Nottinghamshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ASBESTOS SUPPORT CENTRAL ENGLAND.

• ASBESTOS SUPPORT CENTRAL ENGLAND income £149k
• GREATER MANCHESTER ASBESTOS VICTIMS SUPPORT GROUP income £143k
• YORKSHIRE AND HUMBERSIDE ASBESTOS VICTIMS SUPPORT GROUP income £313k
• READLEY ASBESTOS & MESOTHELIOMA SUPPORT GROUP income £186k
• HASAG ASBESTOS DISEASE SUPPORT income £927k
• LONDON ASBESTOS SUPPORT AWARENESS GROUP income £393k

Side by side with its peers

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