Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 9
  • Positive trading contribution: +2;Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -2 times
  • Fundraising costs high: -5
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • All male board: -3
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 7 ?

DISABILITY DIRECT 

Disability Direct is a support service for disabled people. We are also an umbrella agency for smaller groups of disabled people. We are an organisation of disabled people and currently employ 14 paid staff and 35 volunteers.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • More than half of total income was derived from trading and fees in the latest year
  • Spending has increased 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 completely male

Financial issues to consider:

  • Accounts have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended
  • Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised

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*£2,368£1,979£389£1,240£1,310£9125.55132
31/03/22£1,514£1,424£90£778£921£4433.75132
31/03/21*£1,560£1,367£193£691£832£34735632
31/03/20*£1,324£1,335£-12£744£639£10916330
31/03/19*£1,371£1,340£31£816£651£780.75421
31/03/18*£1,403£1,335£68£839£619£170.2620
31/03/17£1,280£1,282£-2£844£551£-54-0.5590
31/03/16*£1,233£1,187£46£774£554£-84-0.8520
31/03/15*£1,178£1,205£-28£780£508£-165-1.6480
31/03/14*£1,219£1,415£-196£268£536£-173-1.5490
31/03/13£1,325£1,577£-252£62£732£-12-0.1550
31/03/12£1,500£1,486£14£52£984£2041.7550
31/03/11*£1,057£1,020£37£61£969£1141.3520
31/03/10£1,038£822£217£141£932£360.5370
31/03/09£1,559£928£631£41£716£410.5250
31/03/08£550£498£52£21£84£842170
31/03/07£380£405£-25£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£358£356£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£221£240£-19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£225£208£17£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 393.9%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 62.7%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 4%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 3%
Liabilities/Income: 2%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 70%
Reserves/Spending: 5.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 4.4
Asset Split ?
Established: 24 years

www.disabilitydirect.com

amo.raju@disabilitysyndicate.com

01332404040

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Services for people with disabilities
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Barnet, Derbyshire, Kent, Nottinghamshire, Rutland, Surrey, Wigan,
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities

Who supports 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£233,602
National Lottery Heritage Fund£86,830
Garfield Weston Foundation£32,000
Disability Action£22,455
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£15,000 30/09/2022
24
Community Cares
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Disability Direct
£86,830 29/03/2022
Disability Direct: The Story of the User-Led power in Derby
National Lottery Community Fund - CommunITy
£197,649 27/01/2022
The funding will be used to improve the IT skills of people with disabilities and older people. The group hopes to improve access to online health and social care services online social groups and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Plot to Plate: Our Planet
£9,700 15/10/2021
This Derby project is seeking to raise climate change awareness amongst people living with a disability and retired adults through collective local action. It will host interactive workshops to ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£15,000 20/08/2021
24
Community Cares
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£2,000 06/11/2020
Weston Charity Award Bonus
Disability Action - NET Coronavirus Appeal Emergency Fund for Disabled People Organisations UK-wide
£22,455 01/11/2020
The project will enable the goup to investigate and tackle inequality and workplace discrimination relating to the pandemic.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Plot to Plate
£2,887 24/10/2020
We would like to build raised beds at homes, sheltered housing, special schools and community groups for disabled adults and children.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,326 25/06/2020
"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
National Lottery Community Fund - Derby Sound Radio Covid
£26,253 15/05/2020
6
This group supports disabled people to live more independently including through a community radio station which provides volunteering opportunities and training in radio skills. It has struggled ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£6,500 31/05/2019
WCA Winner 2019-2020 Cohort
Masonic Trust - MCF Large Grant
£28,990 23/10/2018
A grant to fund a sustainable community allotment enabling people with disabilities to grow their own produce.
National Lottery Community Fund - Nottingham Centre for Independent Living (NCIL)
£403,527 09/09/2015
35
Disability Direct’s Centre for Independent Living will be able to continue to provide information and advice services for disabled people across the county. It will focus on people living ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - The Stuff - Fast Forward
£185,146 04/06/2015
36
Disability Direct will bring together young and older disabled and non-disabled people to help break down barriers between people to help reduce isolation and segregration. It will move away from ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Nottingham Centre for Independent Living (CIL)
£415,638 09/03/2011
48
A new project by Disability Direct (DD) to provide a centre for independent living in Nottingham to provide a user-led service that addresses gaps in information, advice and advocacy for disabled ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Disability Direct
£57,819 04/08/2010
24
Towards Project costs Towards the salary of the IT technician associated with the Magic-T enterprise.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 5/6 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 27-72
  • DAVID MOSS (Chair) Appointed: 2008, Occupation: Financial Advisor
  • ROBIN WOOD Appointed: 1999, Occupation: Self Employed
  • SIMER SALL Appointed: 2020, Occupation: General Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 13/03/2000, number: 1079831
  • Registered at Companies House on 09/12/1999, number: 03891119
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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
  • 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; AR23: 1 days late, AR21: 52 days late, AR20: 10 days late, AR19: 5 days late, AR18: 100 days late, AR16: 38 days late, AR15: 3 days late, AR14: 1 days late, AR11: 1 days late,
Main office

DISABILITY DIRECT
20 ROYAL SCOT ROAD
PRIDE PARK
DERBY
DE24 8AJ

Objectives

SHALL BE TO PROVIDE RELIEF FOR DISABLED PEOPLE IN DERBY AND IN THE SURROUNDING REGIONS, BY THE PROVISION OF, BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION: A DROP IN CENTRE TO FACILITATE INDEPENDENT LIVING OPPORTUNITIES AND INFORMATION AND ADVICE WHICH DIRECTLY RELIEVES THE NEED OF THE BENEFICIARIES WHETHER THEY HAVE A LEARNING DIFFICULTY OR PHYSICAL OR SENSORY IMPAIRMENT AND IDENTIFICATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF NEW SERVICES WHICH EITHER DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY FACILITATES DISABLED PEOPLE'S ABILITY TO LIVE INDEPENDENTLY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

DERBY AND IN THE SURROUNDING REGIONS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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