RESPOND
Registered charity 800862 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ONE TO ONE (WANDSWORTH)
We aim to make a real difference to people with learning disabilities by providing effective and flexible support to help them to improve their lives. Respond work with children, young people and adults with learning disabilities who have experienced abuse or trauma, as well as those who have abused others through psychotherapy, advocacy, campaigning and other support.
Objects
2.1 The Charity's Objects are, for the public benefit, to: 2.1.1 advance training, education, and research; and 2.1.2 promote, protect and improve physical and mental health (including, without limitation, through the reduction of health inequalities and promotion of trauma informed relational working); to benefit people with disabilities (including but not limited to learning disabilities, autism, dementia and mental health difficulties); in particular but without limitation through the relief of need for individuals with learning disabilities or neurodiversity who have experienced abuse or trauma and/or have abused others.2.2 Nothing in these Articles shall authorise an application of the property of the Charity for purposes which are not charitable in accordance with any statutory provision regarding the meaning of the word "charitable" or the words "charitable purposes" in force in any part of the United Kingdom.
Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED
The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.
Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts
Registered contact address: Hackney, London, England (from the postcode on the register)
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that Respond achieved a surplus of £93,823 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £1.14m and total expenditure of £1.04m. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £353,876, which exceeds its stated policy target of three months' operational costs. The trustees and auditors confirm the charity is a going concern with sufficient cash flow forecasts to meet liabilities.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Fundraising cost ratio: 8.0% of fundraised income, as disclosed
“Expenditure on raising funds was £0.08m (prior year: £0.05m) which represents 8% of total expenditure (prior year: 3%).” — page 9
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: three months of full budgeted operational costs (held: £354k)
“The target free reserves for each of the group charities should be no more than three months of full budgeted operational costs.” — page 9
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Respond was charged £84,950 for management and administration costs from BILD.
“During the year, Respond was charged £84,950 for management and administration costs from BILD.” — page 22
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Fawcetts LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission; Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW); Estyn: Her Majesty's Inspectorate For Education And Training In Wales; Homes England; Healthcare Inspectorate Wales (HIW); Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education); Welsh Government (Social Landlords And Housing Associations). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.
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
- 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.
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025
- Volunteers: 4
- Government income: £825,803 — contracts £825,803 (27); 73% of the £1,136,845 total gross income on the same return
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024
- Government income: £1,298,386 — contracts £815,378 (32), grants £483,008 (5); 76% of the £1,701,267 total gross income on the same return
- Employees paid over £60,000: 2 (£70,001–£80,000: 1; £110,001–£120,000: 1)
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023
- Volunteers: 3
- Government income: £972,311 — contracts £972,311 (35); 55% of the £1,771,734 total gross income on the same return
- Employees paid over £60,000: 3 (£70,001–£80,000: 2; £80,001–£90,000: 1)
Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.
Corporate structure
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Respond (matched by registered charity number).
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Dr Foziha Hamid — 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.
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.
- ROY, Ashok, Dr — director, appointed 06/03/2026on trustee list
- RITCHIE, Fiona Mary — director, appointed 16/05/2025on trustee list
- INGRAM, Arlene Leslie — director, appointed 16/05/2025on trustee list
- TEAGLES, Rebecca Elizabeth — director, appointed 17/06/2024on trustee list
- OFFEN, Elizabeth Jill — director, appointed 17/05/2024on trustee list
- NAYLOR, Amanda Jane — director, appointed 01/11/2022not on trustee list
- LEWIS, Oliver, Dr — director, appointed 11/12/2019on trustee list
- FARMER, Dean Anthony — secretary, appointed 17/07/2025
Official officers record.
Public-sector contracts awarded
From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£84k
Reported reserves equal ~4.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 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: 7.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).
- Dr Oliver Lewischair
- Amanda Naylor OBE
- Arlene Ingram
- Dr ASHOK ROY · trustee of 2 other charities
- Elizabeth Jill Offen
- Fiona Ritchie
- Rebecca Elizabeth Teagles
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Isle Of Man · Throughout England And Wales
Income and spending
Common questions
Is RESPOND financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that Respond achieved a surplus of £93,823 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £1.14m and total expenditure of £1.04m. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £353,876, which exceeds its stated policy target of three months' operational costs. The trustees and auditors confirm the charity is a going concern with sufficient cash flow forecasts to meet liabilities. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Fawcetts LLP.
Who funds RESPOND?
Funders whose own accounts filings name RESPOND as a grant recipient include THE THREE GUINEAS TRUST, SIR HALLEY STEWART TRUST, THE A B CHARITABLE TRUST, THE ORR MACKINTOSH FOUNDATION LIMITED.
Known funders
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