STROKE ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 211015 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7624288 · Wikipedia · also known as THE STROKE ASSOCIATION · also registered in Scotland as SC037789 (OSCR)

THE CHARITY OPERATES THROUGHOUT THE UK. WE PROVIDE SUPPORT SERVICES TO EVERYONEAFFECTED BY STROKE, INCLUDING FAMILIES AND CARERS. WE RAISE AWARENESS OF STROKE AND CAMPAIGN FOR BETTER EMERGENCY, REHABILITATION AND SUPPORT SERVICES. WE INVEST IN STROKE RESEARCH TO HELP REDUCE THE INCIDENCE OF STROKE, TO FIND THE BEST TREATMENT AND LONG TERM CARE AND IMPROVE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR STROKE SURVIVORS.

Objects

(A) WORKING FOR THE PREVENTION OF STROKE; (B) EDUCATING THE PUBLIC IN ALL MATTERS CONCERNING STROKE; (C) CARRYING OUT, PROMOTING OR SPONSORING RESEARCH INTO THE PREVENTION OR TREATMENT OF STROKE OR OTHER CONDITIONS WHERE THE EFFECTS ARE SIMILAR TO STROKE, THE REHABILITATION AND LONG-TERM CARE OF STROKE SURVIVORS AND PUBLISHING THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH; (D) RESPONDING TO THE NEEDS CAUSED BY THE EFFECTS OF STROKE, OR OTHER CONDITIONS WHERE THE EFFECTS ARE SIMILAR TO STROKE, BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND SUPPORT TO THOSE AFFECTED, THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Islington, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year in a strong financial position with free reserves of £17.4 million, which are within the trustees' approved policy range of £10.0 million to £19.5 million. Although the charity plans for unrestricted deficits in the next two years totalling £1.3 million, it maintains sufficient liquidity and investment holdings to meet its obligations and fund future activities.

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.

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
• Investment
• 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

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00061274
• Trading subsidiary: STROKE ASSOCIATION (TRADING) LTD Companies House 00898941

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

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.

• PARKER, Jason Dominic Simon — director, appointed 01/01/2026on trustee list
• AL-SHAHI SALMAN, Rustam, Professor — director, appointed 18/10/2023not on trustee list
• KENNEDY, Niamh, Dr — director, appointed 18/10/2023on trustee list
• CATCHPOOL, Hannah Claire — director, appointed 30/06/2022on trustee list
• ARCHIBALD, Andrew Robert — director, appointed 15/12/2021on trustee list
• SPENTZOS, George — director, appointed 07/10/2021on trustee list
• DRUMMOND, Avril Elizabeth Roberta, Professor — director, appointed 01/12/2019on trustee list
• LEE, Ian Macpherson — director, appointed 18/06/2019on trustee list
• GARCEZ, Eduardo Antonio Pereira — director, appointed 24/09/2018on trustee list
• BUCKLE, David John — director, appointed 24/09/2018on trustee list
• GILLESPIE, Katherine Mary — director, appointed 24/09/2018on trustee list
• JONKER, Jan Willem — secretary, appointed 24/09/2018

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Property (HM Land Registry)

5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustpilot: The Stroke Association scores 3.5/5 from 8 reviews (source) — reviews usually concern the charity’s shops or services, not its charitable performance.

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.

• Service Delivery Administration Manager — Circa £33,500 per annum · Remote · posted 1 week ago (seen 02/09/2026)
• In Memoriam Officer — Circa £33,200 per annum (inner London weighting £3,950 per annum or outer London weighting £2,457 per annum may be applied in accordance with where you live) · Remote · posted 2 weeks ago (seen 02/09/2026)
• Support Coordinator — Circa £17,000 per annum (FTE circa £28,300 per annum) · Isle of Wight (Hybrid) · posted 6 days ago (seen 02/09/2026)

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

Reported reserves equal ~9.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 21.2% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/10/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/08/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/03/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/02/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Robert Archibald
• David Buckle · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr Niamh Kennedy
• Eduardo Garcez
• George Spentzos
• Hannah Claire Catchpool
• Ian Macpherson Lee
• Jason Dominic Simon Parker
• Katherine Gillespie
• Prof Avril Drummond
• Professor Rustam Al-Shahi Salman

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

Operates in: Isle Of Man · Jersey · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 DIFFERENT STROKES (TRUSTEES) LIMITED.

• DIFFERENT STROKES (TRUSTEES) LIMITED income £486k
• STROKE INFORMATION income £26k
• SUCCESS AFTER STROKE income £37k
• The Stroke and Wellness Foundation income £321k
• DUDLEY STROKE ASSOCIATION income £190k
• SUCCESS AFTER STROKE income £306k

Side by side with its peers

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