DRIVE

Registered charity 703002 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE TAFF ELY AND AREA SUPPORT GROUP FOR PEOPLE WITH A MENTAL HANDICAP ALSO (KNOWN AS DRIVE)

Provision of supported living services for people with learning disabilities or mental health disabilities, Provision of targeted domiciliary care support services for people with disabilities (mainly Learning difficulty),Provision of Respite Care for people with disabilities (mainly Learning difficulty),Employment training for service users with a learning difficulty.

Causes: Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £313,928 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with unrestricted funds increasing to £5,682,291. Per the trustees' report, free reserves of £3,885,496 exceeded the stated target of £2,823,707, indicating strong financial resilience despite sector-wide funding pressures.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Menzies LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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 (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Karen Cherrettchair
• Elizabeth Chapman
• Hannah Jones
• KATRINA KUROWSKI
• Lisa Nicholls
• Maria Tee
• Rhian Robinson
• Richard Troote
• Stuart Sneddon
• Tzu-Hsin Wu

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

Operates in: Bridgend · Merthyr Tydfil · Monmouthshire · Neath Port Talbot · Rhondda Cynon Taff

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Learning Disability Network London Limited.

• Learning Disability Network London Limited income £22.7m
• BLYTH STAR ENTERPRISES LIMITED income £2.6m
• INDIVIDUAL CARE SERVICES income £7.0m
• ELLYS EXTRA CARE LIMITED income £135k
• Chesterfield and District Society for People with a Disability income £2.4m
• THE STABLE FAMILY HOME TRUST income £4.0m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.