SCOPE

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

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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, driven by retail losses and strategic transition costs. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves decreased from £42.7 million to £26.4 million over the last five years, with current free reserves held at £16.3 million against a policy target of 3-4 months of total expenses plus 8-9 months of fixed costs.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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.

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).

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

• Robin Millarchair
• Callum James Jackson
• Carolyn Bunting · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christopher Patnoe
• Gail Yvonne Arkle
• Hetal Desai
• Louise Li · trustee of 1 other charity
• 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

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Government & lottery funding

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