DIGITAL ADVANTAGE

Registered charity 1188836 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DIGITAL INCLUSION

Training and development of creative and digital skills for young people, especially those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE: A) TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, SUPPORTING YOUNG PEOPLE WHO MAY:I) BE DISABLEDII) HAVE SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDSIII) HAVE LIMITED DIGITAL SKILLSIV) BE UNEMPLOYEDB) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN THE SUBJECT OF DIGITAL SKILLS IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WHO MAY:I) BE DISABLEDII) HAVE SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDSIII) HAVE LIMITED DIGITAL SKILLSIV) BE UNEMPLOYED

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Manchester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £14,076 for the year ended 31 July 2025, with total income of £1,265,195. Per the trustees' report, the charity remains in a strong and stable financial position, holding £19,861 in unrestricted reserves against a policy target of three months of expenditure.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by The Moffatts Partnership LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2022 (received 28/03/2024, 333 days after the 30/04/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• James Edward Davieschair
• Julia Patricia Owen
• Katrina Suzanne Gallagher
• Matthew Stephenson
• Rachel Ledson

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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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 Digital Poverty Alliance.

• Digital Poverty Alliance income £1.8m
• REACH LEARNING DISABILITY income £3.9m
• CENTRE FOR THE ACCELERATION OF SOCIAL TECHNOLOGY income £1.2m
• SUPPORT2ACHIEVE income £986k
• DIGIT<ALL> income £355k
• SEND THE RIGHT MESSAGE income £109k

Side by side with its peers

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