EQUALITY TOGETHER

Registered charity 700084 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRADFORD DISABILITY SERVICES LIMITED, BRADFORD DISABILITY SERVICES LTD, DISABILITY ADVICE BRADFORD, DISABILITY EQUIPMENT BRADFORD

OFFERS FREE AND IMPARTIAL ADVICE AND INFORMATION TO DISABLED PEOPLE, THEIR CARERS AND FAMILIES IN THE BRADFORD METROPOLITAN DISTRICT ON BENEFITS, EQUIPMENT,PARKING, TRANSPORT, EMPLOYMENT, EDUCATION,LEISURE, HOUSING AND HOLIDAYS. PROVIDES SHORT-TERM WHEELCHAIR AND DISABILITY EQUIPMENT HIRE.

Objects

THE OBJECTS ARE RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC: 1.1 TO PROVIDE THE RELIEF OF ALL PEOPLE WHO BY REASON OF THEIR DISABILITY, AGE, INFIRMITY, SICKNESS, SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES, CARING RESPONSIBILITIES, OR WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED FOR OTHER REASONS, FACE BARRIERS TO ACCESSING, OR HAVE A NEED OF, HEALTH, SOCIAL CARE OR OTHER RELATED COMMUNITY SERVICES; AND 1.2 TO PROMOTE EDUCATION AND PROVIDE INFORMATION, ADVICE, SUPPORT AND TRAINING, WHICH WILL ENABLE SUCH PEOPLE TO: 1.2.1 RESPOND TO ISSUES OF CONCERN AND INTEREST RELATED TO THEIR CARE 1.2.2 HELP THEM TO MEET THEIR NEEDS; AND PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY AND MORE SPECIFICALLY WITHIN THEIR LOCAL COMMUNITIES

Area of benefit: BRADFORD

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

Registered contact address: Bradford, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit for the year and holds unrestricted free reserves of £11,253, which the trustees acknowledge falls significantly short of their stated policy target of four months of core operating expenditure (£120,434). While the trustees and auditors confirm the charity is a going concern with adequate resources for the foreseeable future, the filing highlights ongoing cashflow challenges and a reliance on securing sustainable income streams to rebuild reserves.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services Ltd. 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
• 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mark Nicholson — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Christopher Elliott — Finance Director (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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% 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).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/01/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/09/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jenny Scott
• Lynn Asquith
• Mohinder Singh Chana · trustee of 1 other charity
• Susan Crowe

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

Operates in: Bradford City · Calderdale · Kirklees · Leeds City · North Yorkshire

Income and spending

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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
• NETWORKFOUR income £30k
• BEYOND EQUALITY CIO income £941k
• TOGETHER LEICESTER income £35k
• ACCESS COMMUNITY TRUST income £5.9m
• COMMUNITY EQUALITY DISABILITY ACTION income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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