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Registered charity · Stoke on Trent

Asist

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £1.4m (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
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.asist.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Asist.
Registered
1995

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.4m£1.2m
  • 2024£1.2m£1.1m
  • 2023£1.2m£1.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£797k£746k
  • 2021£764k£750k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 82%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE HELP AND RELIEF OF THE SICK, PEOPLE WITH A MENTAL OR PHYSICAL DISABILITY, THE DISABLED AND OLD PEOPLE AND SUCH OTHER PEOPLE NEEDING HELP FROM THE EFFECTS OF THEIR DISABILITIES BY ENABLING THEM ALL TO HAVE ACCESS TO A PERSONAL ADVOCATE TO ASSIST THEM IN ARTICULATING THEIR NEEDS AND RESPONSES WHEN FACED WITH SUCH AGENCIES AS SOCIAL SERVICES, HEALTH, SOCIAL SECURITY, LOCAL AUTHORITIES, GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS AND OTHERS OF A SIMILAR NATURE.

Grants received

5 grants · £255,656 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

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £5,5722020-10-01
  • Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales £29,5092020-05-21
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,9502016-06-29
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £7,7002011-12-01
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £202,9252006-08-09
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.

6 trustees on the board

4.8y median 4y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

17.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (2)

5
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 6The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 6Disability 5General Charitable Purposes 1

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 11Arts and leisure 1Other services 1

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£1.4m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
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.

7.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 5.0 in 2021

36 from 26 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1048075
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 14/06/1995AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 27/02/2012
Companies House
Company number 03068125 · Active
Contact on the register
01782845584 · Cathy.Jones@asist.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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