Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 6

Strong growth: +2
Multiple Deficits: -2
No PartB

Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 9

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
A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

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		£336	£189	£148	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	4
31/03/22		£170	£141	£30	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	4
31/03/21		£220	£108	£112	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/20		£60	£86	£-26	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/19		£60	£69	£-10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1
31/03/18		£65	£50	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	3
31/03/17		£50	£49	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	*	£46	£52	£-6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£55	£51	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£56	£57	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£45	£52	£-7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£84	£74	£10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£68	£80	£-12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£80	£64	£16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£50	£45	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£60	£62	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07		£48	£64	£-16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06		£87	£67	£20	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05		£85	£77	£9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04		£77	£74	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 2 years

www.dish.org.uk

info@dish.org.uk

03303553256

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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 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
New Philanthropy Capital (NPC)	£10,000
Disability Action	£9,684
DCMS	£9,500
The Fore	£5,000
True Colours Trust	£5,000

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.
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 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 aid their health and wellbeing reduce isolation and loneliness.
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 ....more 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
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 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 services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."
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 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 ....more 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 can continue providing its core services during the pandemic.
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 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 benefits service at this unprecedented time of no-contact and overwhelmed Department of Work and Pensions. This is a unique service and one that also offers immediate relief in terms of food bank vouchers and emergency support.
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 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 ....more 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

ALISON LYONS Appointed: 2023

AMY BOSSE Appointed: 2018

CHRISTOPHER HARDING Appointed: 2023

GEORGINA WARK Appointed: 2023

GETHYN WILLIAMS (Chair) Appointed: 2023, Other trusteeship: THE EVELYN GLENNIE FOUNDATION,

MELODY CHANAKIRA Appointed: 2020

NICHOLAS CHARLES WELLS Appointed: 2018

WILLIAM VICKERY TEMPLETON Appointed: 2018

DAVID LLOYD BOWERS Appointed: 2016, Other trusteeship: THE FRIENDS OF ST MARY'S GODMANCHESTER,

MARK GRIFFEN Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Charity Volunteer

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.

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