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Registered charity · Cheshire

Independent Options (North West)

  • 3 trustees
  • Income £5.4m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Disability
Where
Stockport, Tameside, Cheshire East, Derbyshire
Website
www.independentoptions.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Independent Options (North West)
Registered
1993

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£5.4m£5.3m
  • 2024£5.1m£5.5m
  • 2023£4.6m£4.9m
Earlier years
  • 2022£4.3m£4.4m
  • 2021£4.3m£4.2m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 99%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEED OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS WHO HAVE A RECOGNISED DISABILITY BY THE PROVISION OF A RANGE OF COMMUNITY CARE SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS AND BY THE PROVISION OF TRAINING FOR OTHER ORGANISATIONS TO PROVIDE SIMILAR SERVICES.

Grants received

6 grants · £300,977 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

  • SHAREGIFT £5,0002023-09-15
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £7,6552022-09-16
  • Stockport MBC £2322021-02-01
  • Woodward Charitable Trust £7502019-04-02
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £285,7402008-06-11
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

3 trustees on the board

5.3y median 7y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

3
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Disability 3

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Health and social care 3

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together
  • Small board - little cover if a trustee leaves

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£5.4m latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

1.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 0.1 in 2021

183 from 160 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.
101 days
Latest accounts filed after the due dateiFiled after the due dateDate the accounts were received minus the reporting due date, latest filed cycle, Charity Commission register.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1022680
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 21/11/1990AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 01/04/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/11/1996AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11/11/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29/01/2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04/07/2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/01/2011AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 22/02/2011
Companies House
Company number 02560910 · Active
Contact on the register
01614566502 · info@ionw.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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