Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 11
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 19 ?

DISABILITY INFORMATION SERVICE HUNTINGDONSHIRE

Disability Huntingdonshire (DISH) is a small local charity set up to provide specialist benefit advice, and support for people of all ages with disabilities throughout Huntingdonshire and South Cambridgeshire currently. We also support people to claim Attendance and Carers Allowance, and support our clients if they have additional requirements such as food/fuel poverty/housing issues
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Financial issues to consider:

  • This Charity has changed registration and some of the financial and donation history pertains to the previous entity
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

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£336£189£148n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£170£141£30n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£220£108£112n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£60£86£-26n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£60£69£-10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£65£50£15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£50£49£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16*£46£52£-6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£55£51£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£56£57£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£45£52£-7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£84£74£10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£68£80£-12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£80£64£16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09£50£45£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£60£62£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07£48£64£-16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06£87£67£20n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£85£77£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£77£74£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 3 years

www.dish.org.uk

info@dish.org.uk

03303553256

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Services for people with disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Cambridgeshire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • 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£301,315
Lloyds Bank Foundation£75,000
Rank Foundation£15,000
New Philanthropy Capital (NPC)£10,000
Disability Action£9,684
The Fore£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Disability Information Service Huntingdonshire (DISH)
£75,000 06/12/2023
36
Unrestricted grant over 3 years towards the core costs of Disability Information Service Huntingdonshire (DISH)
Co-Operative Group - Grant to DISH
£1,050 21/10/2023
We wish to continue to support people with mental health issues get the assistance they need through financial security, and also support them with other issues that affect their lives.
Rank Foundation - CoL Core Grant DISABILITY HUNTINGDONSHIRE 2023 - Part Award
£15,000 27/04/2023
Disability Huntingdonshire received a Cost of Living Grant to help cover postage, transport and staff salaries.
New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) - Open Philanthropy Fund B
£10,000 14/02/2023
Unrestricted funding to tackle financial hardship
National Lottery Community Fund - Viva Volunteering
£8,640 25/02/2022
The funding will be used to provide outreach work for people with disabilities by volunteers to signpost and provide additional support. The project aims to get people with disabilities to become more involved in their local community which will ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Service Development
£249,279 29/03/2021
37
This project provides specialist benefit advice support and advocacy for people of all ages with disabilities. Through its services it enables individuals with disabilities to achieve independence and live with choice and dignity.
Disability Action - NET Coronavirus Appeal Emergency Fund for Disabled People Organisations UK-wide
£9,684 01/11/2020
The project will provide Increased capacity to speed up referrals
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£3,000 29/07/2020
towards core costs over the next 12 months to enable staff to continue to support people with disabilities in Huntingdonshire and South Cambridgeshire (including virtual support) (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
The Fore - RAFT COVID-19 response grant to DISABILITY HUNTINGDONSHIRE
£5,000 08/06/2020
36
Grant from The Fore's RAFT Immediate Response Fund to DISABILITY HUNTINGDONSHIRE, as part of The Fore's COVID-19 Response programme.
National Lottery Community Fund - Covid-19 Emergency 2020 - DISH
£38,896 02/06/2020
6
Disability Huntingdonshire will use funding so it can continue providing information advice and support for disabled people in Huntingdonshire and South Cambridgeshire. The funding will be used to cover salary costs and general running costs so it ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - EMERGENCY RESPONSE
£4,500 15/05/2020
9
The funding will be used to develop an online benefit support service for people living with disabilities during the coronavirus pandemic. The project aims to support the financial needs of people.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Disability Huntingdonshire
£2,000 14/04/2020
COVID19 : purchase IT and mobile phones for a charity that works with people with disabilities in Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation - Grant to Disability Huntingdonshire (DISH)
£2,900 07/04/2020
6
to provide infrastructure tools such as website upgrades and mobile phones to enable staff to continue to support a high risk cohort (who would normally receive home visits and one-to-one assessments) through the vital but stressful disability ....more
True Colours Trust - Towards its Family First project to support parents/carers
£5,000 01/10/2019
Towards its Family First project to support parents/carers
National Lottery Community Fund - IN YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD
£9,500 24/07/2019
12
The organisation will use the funding to recruit and train disability champions, people with experience of the disability benefits system, in order to help provide support for people with disabilities.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Disability Information Service Huntingdonshire (DISH)
£20,000 28/03/2013
The charity offers advice support to disabled people and their carers in Huntingdonshire. Their project to support the parents of children with disabilities will ensure children gain the correct benefits and parents have reduced stress.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 9/10 persons

  • AMY BOSSE Appointed: 2018
  • CHRISTOPHER HARDING Appointed: 2023
  • DAVID LLOYD BOWERS Appointed: 2016
  • GEORGINA WARK Appointed: 2023
  • GETHYN WILLIAMS (Chair) Appointed: 2023
  • HILARY FLORENCE JANE BAYLES Appointed: 2024
  • MARK GRIFFEN Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Charity Volunteer
  • MELODY CHANAKIRA Appointed: 2020
  • NICHOLAS CHARLES WELLS Appointed: 2018
  • WILLIAM VICKERY TEMPLETON Appointed: 2018
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 05/05/2022, number: 1198841
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
  • Investing charity funds 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; AR16: 29 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from DISABILITY INFORMATION SERVICE HUNTINGDONSHIRE on 09/01/2023
Main office

The Maple Centre
6 Oak Drive
Huntingdon
PE29 7HN

Objectives

THE PURPOSE OF THE ASSOCIATION IS TO RELIEVE PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES LIVING IN HUNTINGDONSHIRE AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD THEREOF SO THAT THEY MAY LEAD ACTIVE AND FULFILLING LIVES INTEGRATED IN SOCIETY.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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