Finance Score: 1

Governance Score: 5

Support Score: 5

Reasonable growth: +1
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Mainly female board: -1

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 11

DRESSABILITY

To support independence and wellbeing, Dressability provides a specialist garment adaptation/alteration service - based on the sensitive and informed identification of discrete solutions to the complex clothing challenges encountered by people with disabilities, learning difficulties and/or mobility impairments.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board is predominantly female

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Established: 20 years

www.dressability.org.uk

mail@dressability.org.uk

01793512878

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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
31/03/23		£160	£123	£38	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/03/22		£152	£101	£51	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	21
31/03/21		£97	£78	£19	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	22
31/03/20		£84	£80	£4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/03/19		£68	£81	£-13	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/03/18		£84	£75	£9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£83	£68	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£81	£62	£19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£74	£66	£8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£91	£74	£18	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£70	£79	£-9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£43	£63	£-20	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£60	£65	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£58	£58	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	*	£86	£63	£23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£62	£39	£23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07		£66	£61	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06		£42	£49	£-7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05		£55	£49	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Disability

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

Swindon, Wiltshire,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
People With Disabilities

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
20 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	£130,594
Garfield Weston Foundation	£8,500
The Grocers' Charity	£5,000
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund	£3,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Dressability
£1,397	22/10/2022	We would like to service our current sewing machines and purchase six new ones. This will enable us to expand our reach as we plan a sewing project for the victims of modern slavery.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£8,500	09/04/2021	Specialist clothing adaptation service for people with disabilities
National Lottery Community Fund - Specialist clothing adaptation service
£130,594	20/03/2020 60	The funding will enable the project to expand its capacity in order to meet an increased need for its services. This includes diversifying the way in which clients can access services, and developing ....more The funding will enable the project to expand its capacity in order to meet an increased need for its services. This includes diversifying the way in which clients can access services, and developing evaluation strategies. The project addresses the complex clothing barriers faced by people of all ages with disabilities, involving a range of local support organisations and health services.
The Grocers' Charity - 2020 Dressability
£5,000	11/12/2019	Providing innovative projects and programmes for disabled people
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Dressability
£3,000	20/09/2019 12	Small Grant unrestricted core costs
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£7,500	31/03/2019	Clothing adaptation and alteration service for people with disabilities, learning difficulties and/or limited mobility/dexterity.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards the cost of adapting/altering clothing for disabled people
£1,000	07/11/2016	Towards the cost of adapting/altering clothing for disabled people with limited mobility.
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Dressability
£3,774	27/04/2016 12	Dressabiility provides a unique garment alteration/adaptation dressmaking service for people with physically and learning disabilities. Funding was to support outreach to new and existing clients in ....more Dressabiility provides a unique garment alteration/adaptation dressmaking service for people with physically and learning disabilities. Funding was to support outreach to new and existing clients in North Wiltshire.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards the costs of adapting/altering clothing for disabled people
£500	07/08/2015	Towards the costs of adapting/altering clothing for disabled people.
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Dressability
£3,774	15/05/2015 12	Dressabiility provides a unique garment alteration/adaptation dressmaking service for people with physically and learning disabilities. The grant supported the extension of a specialist clothing ....more Dressabiility provides a unique garment alteration/adaptation dressmaking service for people with physically and learning disabilities. The grant supported the extension of a specialist clothing adaptation service to new clients in North Wiltshire.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 38-84

BERYL FITZGERALD Appointed: 2009, Occupation: Retired

CAROLINE OATES Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Marketing Consultant

JEAN CRAWFORD Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Retired

LINDA JOSE THOMAS Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Retired

NICOLA PROBERT-THOMPSON Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Carer

TIMOTHY ROBIN SWINYARD (Chair) Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Benefits Professional

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 13/02/2004, number: 1102083
Registered at Companies House on 27/05/2003, number: 04777289

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
Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Investment
Paying staff
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

19 returns made; AR09: 18 days late,

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from THE AUTUMN TRUST on 08/09/2021

Main office

DRESSABILITY
BRADBURY HOUSE
WESTMEAD DRIVE
SWINDON
SN5 7ER

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES THROUGH THE PROVISION OF A SPECIALIST CLOTHING SERVICE AND THROUGH THE DESIGN AND ADAPTATION OF CLOTHING FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED, BUT IN PRACTICE SWINDON AND WILTSHIRE

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