PHAB LIMITED

Registered charity 283931 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PHAB, PHAB ENGLAND

Phab supports a network of around 150 clubs in all age ranges, offering activities which all members can share and enjoy together. Phab runs the Integrated Living Experiences and Skills for Independence projects at fully accessible activity centres. Phab organises conferences and forums across the regions, with workshops, training, advice and group discussions.

Objects

A) TO RELIEVE POVERTY, ILLNESS, SICKNESS AND SUFFERING ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD OF PHYSICALLY DISABLED PERSONS. (B) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION BY BRINGING THE DISABLED INTO CLOSER ASSOCIATION AND INTEGRATION WITH THE ABLE BODIED SO THAT THE FORMER WILL HAVE OPPORTUNITIES OF OVERCOMING THEIR DISABILITIES AND THE LATTER WILL BENEFIT FROM SUCH ASSOCIATION AND INTEGRATION. (C) IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE TO PROVIDE, OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF, FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE PERSONS FOR WHOM SUCH FACILITIES ARE PRIMARILY INTENDED BEING PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES PROVIDED THAT NEVERTHELESS SUCH FACILITIES SHALL BE AVAILABLE TO THE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC AT LARGE.

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

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 · Disability · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £1,450,310 against expenditure of £965,386, resulting in a net movement in funds of £484,924. The charity holds unrestricted free reserves of £202,289, which is below its stated policy target of the lower of £330,000 or six months' unrestricted expenditure. The trustees and auditors confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Xeinadin Audit Ltd. Discloses 5 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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 01598587

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Julia Giles MBE — 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.

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.

• ROSE, Pannaben — director, appointed 05/05/2026on trustee list
• BOOTHER, Louise Jennifer — director, appointed 05/05/2026on trustee list
• OSBORNE, Natalie Anne Louise — director, appointed 17/11/2022on trustee list
• ROBINSON, Mark David — director, appointed 26/01/2022on trustee list
• MALONEY, Nicholas John — director, appointed 27/10/2021on trustee list
• HOWELL, Lorna Elizabeth — director, appointed 21/10/2020on trustee list
• GILES, Julia Gaye — director, appointed 30/03/2016not on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 22.8% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/01/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (03/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (02/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (02/01/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/10/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/11/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gregory Francis Howell
• JULIA GILES MBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lorna Elizabeth Howell
• Louise Jennifer Boother
• Mark David Robinson
• Natalie Anne Louise Osborne
• Nicholas John Maloney
• Pannaben Rose

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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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 EPSOM AND EWELL PHAB CLUB.

• EPSOM AND EWELL PHAB CLUB income £58k
• PRINCE PHILIP CENTRE PHAB CLUB LEEDS income £39k
• FITCAP income £259k
• DEVIZES AND DISTRICT PHAB CLUB income £27k
• BIRMINGHAM PHAB CAMPS income £98k
• BARKING AND DAGENHAM AB PHAB YOUTH CLUB income £139k

Side by side with its peers

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