Overall GiG Score: 9 ?
Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 10
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +10

DISABILITY NORTH 

TO PROMOTE INCLUSION INDEPENDENCE AND CHOICE FOR DISABLED PEOPLE
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including a Community Foundation and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive benefits from the charity
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • 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
Established: 40 years

www.disabilitynorth.org.uk

reception@disabilitynorth.org.uk

01912840480

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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
31/03/23£452£526£-74n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/03/22*£529£486£43£0£141£962.4161
31/03/21£500£478£23£1£99£962.4161
31/03/20£511£496£14£0£76£-143-3.5153
31/03/19£482£567£-86n/an/an/an/an/a3
31/03/18£590£630£-41£142£4£-10-0.2200
31/03/17*£595£627£-32£115£15£60.1180
31/03/16£665£616£50£113£701£66713150
31/03/15£696£644£53£139£652£62611.7130
31/03/14£729£685£44£148£598£58410.2130
31/03/13£642£631£12£136£556£54610.4160
31/03/12£695£643£52£155£544£5199.7160
31/03/11£618£672£-54£198£493£4788.5150
31/03/10£713£739£-25£198£522£5018.1150
31/03/09£652£700£-48£173£545£5168.8160
31/03/08£661£727£-66£166£602£5439170
31/03/07£811£742£69£170£669£5899.5190
31/03/06*£872£836£36£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£840£1,030£-191£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£1,048£974£74£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 4 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • City Of York, Cumbria, Durham, Gateshead, Newcastle Upon Tyne City, North Tyneside, North Yorkshire, Northumberland, South Tyneside,

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
Henry Smith Charity£180,000
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd£85,822
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland£83,200
Access to Justice Foundation£72,329
National Lottery Community Fund£65,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£21,500
Power to Change£18,935
CAF£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£5,000 28/10/2022
Weston Charity Award Winner 2021 - 2022 Bonus
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 29/07/2022
Disability North- core costs to continue advice provision for disabled people
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Disability North
£180,000 26/05/2022
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the salary of 2.6 specialist welfare benefit advisors at an advice and information service for people with disabilities in Newcastle and North East ....more
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Disability North
£500 06/01/2022
Charitable activities of Disability North
National Lottery Community Fund - User led Personal Assistant Training
£10,000 27/08/2021
The project will use the funding to deliver service-user led personal assistant training courses. People with disabilities will help to inform the content and delivery of the sessions to provide ....more
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£42,261 09/08/2021
A flexible grant as part of wave 2 of the Community Justice Fund. A pooled fund to support the specialist legal welfare advice sector in its response to COVID33
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£6,500 09/06/2021
Weston Charity Award Winner 2021 - 2022
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - The core costs of the organisation’s work with disabled people in Tyne & Wear and Northumberland arising from the COVID-19 pandemic
£25,000 27/05/2021
The core costs of the organisation’s work with disabled people in Tyne & Wear and Northumberland arising from the COVID-19 pandemic
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Disability North
£25,000 27/05/2021
The core costs of the organisation’s work with disabled people in Tyne & Wear and Northumberland arising from the COVID-19 pandemic
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - running costs of Disability North
£500 21/01/2021
running costs of Disability North
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£30,068 13/10/2020
A flexible grant as part of wave 1 of the Community Justice Fund. A pooled fund to support the specialist legal welfare advice sector in its response to COVID19
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Advice and support to disabled people in Tyne & Wear and Northumberland in light of Covid-19 and its effects
£20,411 06/10/2020
Advice and support to disabled people in Tyne & Wear and Northumberland in light of Covid-19 and its effects
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - advice and support to disabled people in Tyne & Wear and Northumberland in light of Covid-19 and its effects
£20,411 06/10/2020
advice and support to disabled people in Tyne & Wear and Northumberland in light of Covid-19 and its effects
Sport England - ABILITY NORTH: specialist personal training
£8,471 01/09/2020
16
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled ABILITY NORTH: specialist personal training . This project is a Exercise & Fitness project, with a focus ....more
Power to Change - C-19 TISS - Disability North
£18,935 02/07/2020
Grant to C-19 TISS - Disability North
National Lottery Community Fund - Independent Living Advice and Support
£45,000 02/06/2020
The funding will provide a communication network for people with disabilities and their families to keep in touch during the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim is to maintain peer support networks and ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Disability North
£4,500 01/05/2020
COVID19 : Purchase laptops for a charity that works with people with disabilities and older adults in the North East of England
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Supporting people with disabilities in Tyne & Wear and Northumberland affected by the COVID-19 pandemic
£10,000 24/04/2020
Supporting people with disabilities in Tyne & Wear and Northumberland affected by the COVID-19 pandemic
CAF - Grant to Disability North
£10,000 24/04/2020
3
Grant to Disability North to support the organisation through COVID19
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - supporting people with disabilities in Tyne & Wear and Northumberland affected by the COVID-19 pandemic
£10,000 24/04/2020
supporting people with disabilities in Tyne & Wear and Northumberland affected by the COVID-19 pandemic
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Care Advice Service - COVID-19 Response
£10,000 17/04/2020
9
The project will provide specialist support and advice to disabled people in receipt of Direct Payments and who employ own Personal Assistants. This will enable them to receive support during ....more
County Durham Community Foundation - Community Care Advice Service
£5,000 14/04/2020
To support Community Care Advice Service
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A salary for a full time welfare benefits advisor Dec 2019 - Nov 2020
£3,000 24/09/2019
A salary for a full time welfare benefits advisor Dec 2019 - Nov 2020
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - For the salary and on costs of two specialist welfare benefits advisors in Newcastle Yr1
£54,200 29/05/2019
For the salary and on costs of two specialist welfare benefits advisors in Newcastle Yr1
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Salary costs of a Service Development and Involvement Manager
£25,000 08/03/2019
Salary costs of a Service Development and Involvement Manager
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Disability North
£162,800 12/12/2018
36
towards three years' salaries of two Specialist Welfare Benefits Advisors at a project providing an advice and information service to disabled people across the north-east of England
National Lottery Community Fund - Digital North (Pilot Project)
£9,870 08/11/2017
12
The project will help disabled people to have better access to the internet by offering support, digital workshops and use of specialist equipment. This will help with accessing information, services ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Disability North
£9,000 15/01/2017
installation of a new boiler for a charity which works with disabled people in Tyne and Wear
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Disability North
£16,000 28/02/2014
Disability North is a free Independent Living Service which promotes social inclusion, independence and choice for disabled and older people in the North East of England and Cumbria. It is a user led ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Disability North Service Team
£140,700 13/03/2013
36
The aim of this existing project is to increase the provision of free impartial information, advice and support on a wide range of disability issues to disabled and older people in the North East ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 36-51
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 24/01/1984, number: 514733
  • Registered at Companies House on 30/12/1983, number: 01781525
Gift Aid
  • NOT 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
  • 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
  • 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; AR22: 20 days late, AR17: 1 days late, AR06: 22 days late, AR05: 29 days late,
Main office

Disability North
The Dene Centre
Castle Farm Road
Gosforth
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE3 1PH

Objectives

The objects for which Disability North is established are: i. To promote the relief of disabled people and in particular their integration into society, operating within the North of England.ii. To provide disabled people with the support they require by addressing the disadvantage or restriction of activity caused by social attitudes and environmental barriers (in the Articles the words ?disabled people? include people who have a physical, sensory or mental impairment).iii. To promote and support research and survey in social welfare issues related to disabled people and to publish the results of such research.

Defined Area of Benefit:

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Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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