Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 7
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 19 ?

PARITY FOR DISABILITY

Provision of services to children and adults with profound and multiple disabilities.Provision of support and information to parents, carers and disabled people.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£1,730£1,648£83£216£847£6524.85976
31/03/22£1,459£1,450£9£185£765£5714.759113
31/03/21£1,448£1,403£45£216£756£5424.665106
31/03/20£1,560£1,578£-17£232£710£5424.163115
31/03/19£1,559£1,488£71£214£728£5554.567106
31/03/18£1,485£1,403£82£213£657£5084.3590
31/03/17£1,366£1,385£-18£218£575£4574600
31/03/16£1,322£1,268£54£177£598£4844.6600
31/03/15£1,172£1,106£66£169£544£4234.6540
31/03/14£1,097£967£130£170£477£4375.4500
31/03/13£966£928£37£182£352£3214.1470
31/03/12£843£870£-27£182£314£2874480
31/03/11£860£880£-20£177£341£3134.3470
31/03/10£862£860£2£197£361£3294.6430
31/03/09£786£796£-10£164£359£3214.8330
31/03/08£706£704£1£112£293£2444.2410
31/03/07*£696£697£-1£196£291£2424.2340
31/03/06£724£727£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£711£706£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£708£687£21n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 13.9%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 13.1%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 23%
Liabilities/Income: 14%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 77%
Reserves/Spending: 4.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 2.9
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 26 years

www.parityfordisability.org.uk

info@parityfordisability.org.uk

01252375581

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
GiG Classification
  • Services for people with disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bracknell Forest, Hampshire, Reading, Richmond Upon Thames, Slough, Surrey, West Berkshire, Windsor And Maidenhead, Wokingham,
Who it helps
  • People With Disabilities

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£66,372
The Clothworkers Foundation£15,000
DCMS£13,500
Community Foundation for Surrey£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Music therapy for People with Multiple Disabilities
£9,952 10/02/2023
The funding will be used to deliver music therapy sessions for young people with multiple disabilities. The project will provide non-verbal disabled people with opportunities to improve their ability to connect to family and people in their support ....more
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Parity for Disability - 01/09/22
£2,000 02/12/2022
Core Funding
National Lottery Community Fund - Better Provision in and across communities for People with Multiple Disabilities
£47,072 20/10/2022
The funding will be used by Parity for Disability to improve their Surrey-based day services for people with profound and multiple learning disabilities by employing a health and wellbeing officer for three years.
National Lottery Community Fund - Music Therapy for People with Multiple Disabilities
£9,348 07/01/2022
The funding will be used to continue to deliver music therapy sessions for young people with multiple disabilities. The project will reduce isolation for non-verbal disabled people as they learn to express themselves and engage with people through ....more
Community Foundation for Surrey - COVID19 - People with disabilities
£5,000 15/12/2020
Essential running costs for a charity supporting people with disabilities
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Parity for Disability
£7,591 24/10/2020
We would like to create opportunities, trips and experiences for people with multiple disabilities.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£8,500 23/09/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£5,000 03/09/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots and small organisations who can provide an ....more
Community Foundation for Surrey - Covid 19 Response - People with Disabilities
£5,000 17/04/2020
Staff costs towards a charity supporting profoundly disabled adults during the Coronavirus pandemic
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Parity for Disability
£15,000 13/12/2019
purchase of a minibus for a charity which works with people with disabilities in Hampshire
National Lottery Community Fund - Breaking Barriers Through Music Therapy
£6,931 07/08/2019
12
Breaking Barriers Through Music Therapy
Community Foundation for Surrey - Acheeva Learning Station (Therapy Bed) for People with Multiple Disabilities
£2,500 25/06/2019
11
Purchase of a height adjustable, manoeuvrable therapy bed for a day centre for people with multiple disabilities.
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Parity for Disability
£20,000 12/03/2018
48
Main Grant unrestricted core costs
National Lottery Community Fund - Music therapy for People with Multiple Disabilities
£8,952 14/02/2018
12
The project will run music therapy sessions to help people with multiple disabilities express their feelings. This will help reduce withdrawal, harmful behaviours and increase awareness of others.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Parity for Disability
£12,946 04/08/2017
You will be supporting people with multiple disabilities to communicate, make choices, achieve and take their place in the community.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Parity for Disability
£30,000 21/01/2013
Parity for Disability supports young people and adults with multiple disablities through its days services, music therapy, holiday and evening activities for young people and support for families in North Hampshire, Berkshire and SW Surrey.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 41-77
  • BRIAN FREDERICK BLEWETT Appointed: 2001, Occupation: Financial Controller Chartered
  • CHRISTOPHER PORTER Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Hr Professional
  • CLAIRE BRUNTON Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Speech Therapist
  • DANIELE VINCENZO RANDALL Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Retired
  • JOHN OWEN DURRETT (Chair) Appointed: 2000, Occupation: None
  • KELVIN SMITH Appointed: 1998, Occupation: Machine Operator
  • LINDA FENTON ANDERSON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired
  • MARK DAVID BOWEN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Financial Advisor
  • MARTIN HASSETT Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Retired
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 16/09/1998, number: 1071571
  • Registered at Companies House on 19/06/1998, number: 03584503
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR07: 23 days late,
Main office

Parity For Disability
94 Whetstone Road
FARNBOROUGH
Hampshire
GU14 9SX

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE CARE WELFARE INTEREST TREATMENT EDUCATION AND ADVANCEMENT IN HAMPSHIRE SURREY AND BERKSHIRE (OR IN THE EVENT OF ANY LOCAL GOVERNMENT REORGANISATION IN AN EQUIVALENT AREA) AND SURROUNDING DISTRICTS OF PEOPLE WITH CEREBRAL PALSY OR WITH A RELATED DISABILITY. IF DEEMED APPROPRIATE THESE FACILITIES TO BE USED FOR THE SAME OBJECTIVES FOR PEOPLE WITH OTHER SEVERE OR MULTIPLE DISABILITIES

Defined Area of Benefit:

HAMPSHIRE. SURREY AND BERKSHIRE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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