TEESSIDE ABILITY SUPPORT CENTRE

Registered charity 508551 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as TASC

The charity provides personal care and life skills learning opportunities to adults with cerebral palsy and associated disabilities in a Day Centre setting

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE CARE, WELFARE, INTEREST, TREATMENT, EDUCATION AND ADVANCEMENT IN THE COUNTY OF CLEVELAND AND SURROUNDING DISTRICTS OF SPASTICS (WHICH EXPRESSION IN THESE PRESENTS SHALL MEAN AND INCLUDE PERSONS SUFFERING FROM ANY FORM OF CEREBRAL PALSY) AND OTHER HANDICAPPED PERSONS.

Area of benefit: CLEVELAND COUNTY AND SURROUNDING DISTRICTS

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

Causes: Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Middlesbrough, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated with a modest surplus and retained a good reputation with its Local Authority and NHS customers. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves are held between £351,345 and £702,690, a range established by policy to cover three to six months of expenditure. The trustees believe this level of reserves allows the charity to continue current activities in the event of significant funding reductions.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Chipchase Manners. 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 02/02/2023, 2 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01417036 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Teesside Ability Support Centre (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.

• TARRAN, Laura Hannah — director, appointed 07/11/2025on trustee list
• SHADMAN-PAJOUH, Maryam, Dr — director, appointed 26/02/2025on trustee list
• JONEIDY, Sina, Dr — director, appointed 18/02/2025on trustee list
• BRIGGS, Emma Jane — director, appointed 10/12/2024on trustee list
• MAGSON, Lesley Jane — director, appointed 01/09/2023on trustee list
• MASON, Wayne Edward — director, appointed 11/01/2023on trustee list
• ANNETT, Margaret — director, appointed 25/10/2017on trustee list
• SIDGWICK, Stephen Ernest — director, appointed 18/07/2016on trustee list
• HEATH, Annette Susan — director, appointed 16/05/2016on trustee list
• SIDGWICK, Linda Diane — director, appointed 13/11/1996on trustee list
• OSBORNE, Alison Mary — director, appointed 01/02/1992on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~13.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (91% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALISON MARY OSBORNE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Annette Heath
• Dr Maryam Shadman-Pajouh
• Dr Sina Joneidy
• Emma Jane Briggs
• LESLEY JANE MAGSON · trustee of 2 other charities
• LINDA DIANE SIDGWICK
• Laura Hannah Tarran
• Margaret Annett
• Muhammad Ishfaq Ahmad
• Stephen Sidgwick
• Wayne Edward Mason

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

Operates in: Middlesbrough · North Yorkshire · Redcar And Cleveland · Stockton-on-tees

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 PARITY FOR DISABILITY.

• PARITY FOR DISABILITY income £1.9m
• THE DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTRE income £576k
• COMMUNITY CARE OPTIONS income £705k
• LEICESTERSHIRE EMPOWERMENT FOR AUTISM TODAY income £75k
• VISION25 income £942k
• The Teesside Charity income £620k

Side by side with its peers

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