Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 10
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • No PartB
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 15 ?

DISABILITY ACTION IN ISLINGTON

Disability Action in Islington (DAII) is an organisation run by and for disabled people. Provides free information, advice, user-involvement and peer support services for local disabled people, and a range of training and consultancy services to the voluntary, statutory and business sectors. All DAII projects and services are based on the social model of disability.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
  • Why are there only 3 trustees?

Financial issues to consider:

  • 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£208£124£84n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£111£107£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£156£92£64n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£65£53£12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£72£84£-12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£73£75£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£88£80£8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£77£84£-7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15*£199£229£-30n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£326£338£-12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£330£361£-31n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£367£344£23n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£433£437£-4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£529£540£-10£5£102£1022.3120
31/03/09£448£424£25n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£449£424£25n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07£401£406£-6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06*£294£315£-21n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05*£281£288£-7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£314£291£23n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 29 years

www.daii.org

info@daii.org

02073548925

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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
Where it operates
  • Islington,
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£280,533
Cloudesley£120,500
City Bridge Trust£93,606
DCMS£45,523
Greater London Authority£15,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Cloudesley - Grant to Disability Action in Islington
£5,000 19/09/2023
Cloudesley Partner welfare grant 2024
Greater London Authority - ID is the Key to your Vote
£15,000 13/01/2023
Disability Action Haringey worked with Disability Action Islington to create information in appropriate and accessible formats, such as three videos, and supported participants to apply for free Voter Authority Certificates and register to vote. ....more
Cloudesley - Grant to Disability Action in Islington
£7,500 07/12/2022
Principal Grant - cost of living uplift. Related grant: 360G-Cloudesley-H2505
Cloudesley - Grant to Disability Action in Islington
£5,000 27/09/2022
Cloudesley Partner welfare grant 2023
Cloudesley - Grant to Disability Action in Islington
£5,000 27/09/2022
Principal Grant - cost of living uplift. Related grant: 360G-Cloudesley-H2505
Cloudesley - Grant to Disability Action in Islington
£3,000 09/09/2022
Cloudesley Partner top-up grant for 2022
Cloudesley - Grant to Disability Action in Islington
£3,000 17/05/2022
Cloudesley Partner grant 2022 - Awarded May 2022
National Lottery Community Fund - Information and Advice Service
£280,533 07/04/2022
The project is using funding towards the information and advice service (I&A) to support people living with disability in Islington. The funding will support the group to carry out research with users to understand what they would like to see ....more
Cloudesley - Grant to Disability Action in Islington
£90,000 09/03/2022
Principal Grant Rd 3 - Complex Caseworker
Cloudesley - Grant to Disability Action in Islington
£2,000 03/09/2021
Cloudesley Partner Pilot Grant for the period 03/09/21 to 31/21/21
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Disability Action in Islington
£50,000 08/04/2021
towards the salary of the Service Manager plus on-costs, and core costs as outlined in the revised budget, as well as a contribution towards the costs of gaining a Quality Mark
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£45,523 29/09/2020
"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
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Disability Action in Islington
£43,606 28/09/2020
towards employing two new part-time workers and increasing the hours of the current part-time Volunteer Coordinator and Manager to meet the increase in support requests due to covid-19, as well as other costs outlined in your application.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Disability Action in Islington
£29,800 17/08/2012
extending the Independent Brokerage, Advocacy and Support Project (IBASS)
National Lottery Community Fund - Independent Living Information and Advice Service
£411,055 10/08/2011
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A project to enable more disabled people in Islington to have better and more equal life chances. An information phone line and email service, drop-in advice sessions and case work appointments will be provided along with a new home visit service to ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 42-68
  • BARBARA SIDNELL Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Trustee
  • LOUISE WALTON Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Trustee
  • PHIL STEVENS Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Trustee
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 30/05/1996, number: 1055692
  • Registered at Companies House on 21/05/1996, number: 03201755
Gift Aid
  • NOT 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
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR15: 4 days late, AR06: 17 days late, AR05: 60 days late,
Main office

Unit 3 Marquess Estate
St Paul's Road
London
N1 2SY

Objectives

TO ENABLE DISABLED PEOPLE IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF ISLINGTON WITH A PHYSICAL, SENSORY, COGNITIVE OR HIDDEN IMPAIRMENT TO ACHIEVE AND MAINTAIN CHOICE, CONTROL AND INDEPENDENCE IN THEIR LIVES;(B) TO ENABLE DISABLED PEOPLE WITH A PHYSICAL, SENSORY, COGNITIVE OR HIDDEN IMPAIRMENT TO ACCESS SERVICES, ENTITLEMENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES;(C) TO PROMOTE A MORE ACCESSIBLE AND INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR DISABLED PEOPLE WITH A PHYSICAL, SENSORY, COGNITIVE OR HIDDEN IMPAIRMENT AND PROMOTE THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE SOCIAL MODEL OF DISABILITY; AND(D) TO EFFECTIVELY REPRESENT THE VIEWS, NEEDS AND INTERESTS OF DISABLED PEOPLE WITH A PHYSICAL, SENSORY, COGNITIVE OR HIDDEN IMPAIRMENT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

ISLINGTON

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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