SCOPE

Registered charity 208231 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE SPASTICS SOCIETY

Scope exists to make this country a place where disabled people have the same opportunities as everyone else. We provide support, information and advice to more than a quarter of a million disabled people and their families every year. We raise awareness of the issues that matter.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · Accommodation/housing · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating loss of £5 million and a net decrease in funds of £8.1 million for the year ended 31 March 2025, primarily due to retail losses and exceptional costs associated with closing shops. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves decreased from £42.7 million to £26.4 million over the last five years, with the current unrestricted fund balance standing at £20.3 million. The trustees confirm the charity is prepared on a going concern basis, concluding it can meet its liabilities as they fall due for at least 12 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00520866

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Scope (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mark Wood CBE — 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• People's Postcode Lottery — “our People's Postcode Lottery partnership” (source page)

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.

• WOOD, Gregory Mark — director, appointed 17/08/2026on trustee list
• RAMM, Stacey Paula — director, appointed 07/04/2026on trustee list
• LI, Louise — director, appointed 07/04/2026on trustee list
• BUNTING, Carolyn — director, appointed 07/04/2026on trustee list
• BERNEY, Scott — director, appointed 17/10/2025on trustee list
• DESAI, Hetal Bipin — director, appointed 01/08/2025on trustee list
• FRANCIS, Luke — director, appointed 03/04/2025on trustee list
• ARKLE, Gail Yvonne — director, appointed 03/04/2025on trustee list
• JACKSON, Callum James — director, appointed 03/04/2025on trustee list
• SEDDON, Thomas Boothman — director, appointed 03/04/2025on trustee list
• PATNOE, Christopher — director, appointed 28/11/2024on trustee list
• FOSTER, Sian Louise — director, appointed 28/11/2024on trustee list
• CHAUDHARY, Zeinab E-Saber — director, appointed 08/10/2021on trustee list
• ARCHBOLD, Angela Marie — secretary, appointed 26/07/2023

Official officers record.

CQC provider record: Scope — Deregistered, 95 registered locations, last inspected 06/04/2018.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram (28K followers) · linkedin

Advertised salaries (public job ads)

Roles this charity has advertised on CharityJob, matched on the exact employer name. A different source from the statutory pay bands above: these are asking salaries for vacancies, not what anyone was paid.

• Campaigns and Mobilisation Manager — £53,183 per year · Multiple Locations (Hybrid) · posted 1 week ago (seen 02/09/2026)
• Team Leader- Employment — £28,104 per year · Multiple Locations (On-site) · posted 1 week ago (seen 02/09/2026)
• Helpline Adviser — £25,563 per year · Multiple Locations (Hybrid) · posted 1 week ago (seen 02/09/2026)
• Shop Manager — £25,172.40 per year · Dartford, Kent (On-site) · posted 6 days ago (seen 02/09/2026)

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 79.3% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/01/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (31/05/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/09/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (27/07/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (28/02/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (26/02/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Callum James Jackson
• Carolyn Bunting · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christopher Patnoe
• Gail Yvonne Arkle
• Gregory Mark Wood · trustee of 1 other charity
• Hetal Desai
• Louise Li
• Luke Francis
• Scott Berney
• Sian Foster
• Simon Godfrey
• Stacey Paula Ramm
• Thomas Boothman Seddon · trustee of 1 other charity
• Zeinab Chaudhary

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SCOPE WEST SUSSEX.

• SCOPE WEST SUSSEX income £349k
• STARSCOPE LIMITED income £111k
• STRODE PARK FOUNDATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES income £13.0m
• SKILLS FOR PEOPLE income £1.4m
• QUESTSCOPE income £1.6m
• DISABILITY STOCKPORT CIO income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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