THE INSPIRE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 296284 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as INSPIRE

The INSPIRE Foundation addresses quality of life issues for those living with damage to the spinal cord by researching the latest advances in electronic, mechanical and medical technology.

Objects

TO PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTRONIC, MECHANICAL AND MEDICAL AIDS TO ASSIST THE MOBILITY AND ENABLEMENT OF PEOPLE SUFFERING SPINAL CORD PARALYSIS AND ITS ASSOCIATED EFFECTS AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH

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: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wiltshire, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated total income of £281,615 and incurred total expenditure of £202,700, resulting in a net movement in funds of £85,246. The Trustees' report notes that this income was the best annual figure for some years, achieved by cutting spending while increasing income from Grant Making Trusts. The charity holds unrestricted free reserves of £302,678, which exceeds the stated policy target of at least £100,000.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Fletcher & Partners. 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
• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/11/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Charles Ranaboldo BM FRCS MS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Emeritus Professor Ian Douglas Swain BSc PhD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Emeritus Professor Peter Harry Ellaway BSc PhD
• Mary Mullin · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robert Tylor · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ASPIRE ( ASSOCIATION FOR SPINAL INJURY RESEARCH REHABILITATION AND REINTEGRATION ).

• ASPIRE ( ASSOCIATION FOR SPINAL INJURY RESEARCH REHABILITATION AND REINTEGRATION ) income £3.9m
• INSPIRE COMMUNITY TRUST income £4.8m
• THE INSPIRE FOOTBALL FOUNDATION income £207k
• SPIRIT (SPINAL PARALYSIS AND INJURIES RESEARCH INFORMATION AND TRAINING) income £186k
• INSPIRE PLUS income £1.2m
• INSPIRE LONDON CHURCH income £787k

Side by side with its peers

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