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    DISABILITY INFORMATION SERVICE HUNTINGDONSHIRE 

    Established: 27 years
    Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebookX
    UN SDGs
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    Financial Data ?

    Income & Spending ?
    Sources of Income ?
    Y/E Income
    £k
    Spending
    £k
    Surplus/
    Deficit
    Fundraising
    Cost £k
    Total
    Funds £k
    Unrestricted
    Funds £k
    Mths
    Rsrvs
    Staff Volun-
    teers
    31/03/22£170£141£30n/an/an/an/an/a4
    31/03/21£220£108£112n/an/an/an/an/a2
    31/03/20£60£86£-26n/an/an/an/an/a2
    31/03/19£60£69£-10n/an/an/an/an/a1
    31/03/18£65£50£15£0£0£0n/a03
    31/03/17£50£49£2£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/16*£46£52£-6£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/15£55£51£4£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/14£56£57£-2£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/13£45£52£-7£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/12£84£74£10£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/11£68£80£-12£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/10£80£64£16£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/09£50£45£5£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/08£60£62£-2£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/07£48£64£-16£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/06£87£67£20£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/05£85£77£9£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/04£77£74£3£0£0£0n/a00

    Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
    Listed activities
    • Disability
    • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
    • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
    How it operates
    • Provides advocacy/advice/information
    Where it operates
    • Cambridgeshire,
    Who it helps
    • Children/Young People
    • Elderly/Old People
    • People With Disabilities
    Who works here?
    • Unknown number of employees
    • 4 volunteers

    Who's supporting them? ?

    Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

    Major supporters in last 5 years
    National Lottery Community Fund£310,815
    Rank Foundation£15,000
    Disability Action£9,684
    DCMS£9,500
    The Fore£5,000
    True Colours Trust£5,000
    The Foyle Foundation£3,000
    Cambridgeshire Community Foundation£2,900
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    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.
    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
    National Lottery Community Fund - Service Development
    £249,279 29/03/2021
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    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 ....more
    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
    DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
    £9,500 21/09/2020
    "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 ....more
    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 ....more
    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 ....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 ....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 ....more
    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 ....more
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees

    Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in England & Wales on 08/04/1997, number: 1061702
    Gift Aid
    • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
    Policies in force
    • Complaints handling
    • Conflicting interests
    • Paying staff
    • Risk management
    • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
    • Volunteer management
    Filing Record
    19 returns made; AR16: 29 days late,
    Main office


    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.

    Defined Area of Benefit:

    HUNTINGDONSHIRE AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving
    CharityBase

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