BALANCE (SUPPORT) CIO

Registered charity 1190859 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BALANCE (SUPPORT) CIC

The provision of support services to persons with learning difficulties and to other disadvantaged individuals and groups

Objects

THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROVIDING SUPPORT AND GUIDANCE TO DISADVANTAGED PERSONS AND THEIR FAMILIES, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT LIMITED TO PERSONS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES/AUTISM AND THOSE WITH MENTAL HEALTH CONDITIONS, BY THE PROVISION OF ACCOMMODATION , SUPPORT SERVICES,EMPLOYMENT SUPPORT, DAY CARE AND ANY AND ALL SUCH OTHER FACILITIES AS MAY BE REQUIRED TO ENABLE AND SUPPORT THEM TO EXPERIENCE FULFILLING LIVES AND WHICH MAXIMISE THEIR INVOLVEMENT IN THE COMMUNITY AND IMPROVE THEIR QUALITY IF LIFE.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.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE 'SOCIALLY EXCLUDED' MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY OR PARTS OF SOCIETY FOR AS A RESULT OF BEING A MEMBER OF A SOCIALLY AND/OR ECONOMICALLY DEPRIVED COMMUNITY BUT WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO PERSONS HAVING A LEARNING DISABILITY/AUTISM AND THOSE WITH A MENTAL HEALTH CONDITION

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Kingston upon Thames, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net surplus of £193,388 for the year ended March 2025, with total turnover increasing by 72% to £4,081,718. Unrestricted reserves stood at £611,629, which the trustees note is below their stated policy target of four months' running costs, though this represents an improvement from the previous year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by UHY Ross Brooke. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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 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
• 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

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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Emma Whitehead — Finance Director (source)
• Dr. Marcin Remarczyk — Chair (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

CQC provider record: Balance (Support) CIO — Registered, 3 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 13/12/2022. CQC record

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.9 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 (99% 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).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

• Balance Domiciliary Care: Good (25/10/2022) · CQC record

Trustees · trustee networks

• dr Marcin Remarczykchair
• Dr Anjali Subburaj
• Julie Harrison
• Klaus paesler
• Neil Terence Mauger
• Paul David Henson
• Sarath WEERASINGHE
• lila powell

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CONNECT TALENT CIO.

• CONNECT TALENT CIO income £31k
• ASIST income £1.4m
• LOCAL WELCOME CIO income £175k
• DISABILITY STOCKPORT CIO income £1.5m
• Sound Vision CIO income £139k
• LEARNING ALLOWED CONNECT CIO income £61k

Side by side with its peers

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