THE ASSOCIATION OF DIRECTORS OF ADULT SOCIAL SERVICES

Registered charity 299154 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ADASS, THE ASSOCIATION OF DIRECTORS OF SOCIAL SERVICES

To promote the education of the public in matters of social policy, social organisation and social problems.To promote the relief of poverty.To promote the relief of those needing care, support or safeguarding and the preservation and protection of physical and mental health for the benefit of the publicTo promote the preservation of family life for the benefit of the public

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £161,840 for the year, with total funds decreasing from £2,507,948 to £2,346,108. Per the trustees' report, free reserves of £1,839,511 remain above the stated policy target of approximately £1,195,000, which the trustees deem reasonable given recent policy revisions and planned investments.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bennewith 2018 Limited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sally Burlington — Chief Executive (source)
• Richard Parry — Chair of the Board of Trustees (source)
• Michael Chard — Director of Policy & Analysis (source)
• Ian Hall — Director of Policy & Implementation (source)
• Alice Klein — Director of Communications & Public Affairs (source)
• Miriam Lambert — Director of Governance and Resources (source)
• Hazel Summers — Joint Director of Social Care Improvement (source)
• Simon Williams — Joint Director of Social Care Improvement (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 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~7.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (84% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 3.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jessica McGregor
• Martin Samuels
• Nicolas Robert Grant Presmeg
• Phil Holmes
• Richard Humphries · trustee of 4 other charities
• Richard Parry

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CITIZENS ADVICE LEICESTERSHIRE.

• CITIZENS ADVICE LEICESTERSHIRE income £1.7m
• THE ADVICE SERVICES ALLIANCE income £149k
• HARTLEPOOL UNITED COMMUNITY SPORTS FOUNDATION income £199k
• YOUR VOICE IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE income £1.2m
• RESPONSE ORGANISATION income £17.0m
• HEALTH FOR ALL (LEEDS) LTD income £2.4m

Side by side with its peers

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