DIAL - GT YARMOUTH

Registered charity 299909 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DISABLED INFORMATION AND ADVICE LINE GREAT YARMOUTH KNOWN AS D I A L GREAT YARMOUTH

DIAL offers a free, impartial and confidential information and advice service for disabled and vulnerable people and their carers within the Borough of Great Yarmouth. Advice regarding state benefits, including full benefit checks and assistance with benefit applications. Debt Counselling including negotiating with creditors, formulation of debt management plans and assistance with budgeting.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net loss of £112,354 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £989,379 to £877,025. Per the trustees' report, this loss was driven by a decrease in grant funding, which necessitated the utilization of reserves to cover operational costs. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £270,813, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover approximately six months of running costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~7.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (94% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Valerie Jean Pettitchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Vincent Clare
• Paul Frosdick
• Roger Gowen · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stephen Robert Bowles

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

Operates in: Norfolk

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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