ALLERDALE DISABILITY ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 510656 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ALLERDALE ASSOCIATION FOR THE DISABLED

Information service giving advice and support on any disability related issue to people with disabilities, their families and carers. A large proportion of the work involves assisting people to complete welfare benefit forms. Drop In Centre for physically disabled adults and their carers, providing social and learning opportunities.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF DISABLED PEOPLE WITHIN ALLERDALE AND WEST COAST DISTRICT IN ANY MANNER WHICH NOW IS OR HEREAFTER MAY BE DEEMED BY LAW TO BE CHARITABLE AND IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE AFOREGOING (1) TO CO-OPERATE WITH VOLUNTARY AND STATUTORY ORGANISATIONS IN ORDER TO CO-ORDINATE THEIR ACTIVITIES RELATING TO DISABLED PEOPLE (2) TO DISSEMINATE INFORMATION RELATING TO DISABLED PEOPLE.

Area of benefit: ALLERDALE AND WEST COAST DISTRICT.

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

Causes: Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £49,905.50 against a trustee-considered but not adopted policy target of three months' operational costs. The charity reported a surplus for the year and noted that fundraising remains a high priority to ensure service continuation.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

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
• 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOHN DAVID BROWN BSC, CPAchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Anthony James Markley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Emma Corlett
• Konrad Joseph Henry Hansen
• Margaret Carey
• Martin John Woodham
• Paula Louise Graham

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

Operates in: Cumbria

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 ALDAG (ALWAYS LEARNING DEVELOPING AND GROWING).

• ALDAG (ALWAYS LEARNING DEVELOPING AND GROWING) income £144k
• DARLINGTON ASSOCIATION ON DISABILITY income £2.1m
• CITIZENS ADVICE ALLERDALE income £661k
• THE ALDINGBOURNE TRUST income £9.4m
• RIDING FOR THE DISABLED ASSOCIATION INCORPORATING CARRIAGE DRIVING income £3.9m
• SOUTHWARK DISABLEMENT ASSOCIATION income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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