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Demand Design and Manufacture for Disability

Registered · see notesRegistered charity number 1008128LondonHealth and saving lives
Income£361k2025-12-31
Spending£539ksame year
Spent / received126%5-year average
Size in its cause80th pctHealth and saving lives
Registered1992Charitable company
Employees–latest return

Analysis

Demand Design and Manufacture for Disability is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in February 1992, 34 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and amateur sport, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 02671913). It says it provides services, provides advocacy/advice/information and other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Demand Design and Manufacture for Disability reported income of £361k and spending of £539k, spending 149% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £456k to £361k (-21%), an average of -5.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 27%. Over the whole period it spent 126% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Demand Design and Manufacture for Disability sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Social Action for Health (£361k), Moonlight Trust (£361k) and The Frederick Arthur Alford Charitable Trust (£361k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.

Income and spending

£0£135k£270k£404k£539k2021 Income: £455,5452021 Spending: £406,60620212022 Income: £333,3772022 Spending: £408,49120222023 Income: £323,2862023 Spending: £451,39620232024 Income: £388,2462024 Spending: £537,71620242025 Income: £360,8732025 Spending: £539,0452025
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Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

We design and make equipment for people with disabilities where existing solutions are either inaccessible or inadequate. We also provide an equipment sign-posting service. We improve & repair equipment already in use, and we encourage interest in design for disability through close ties with universities & via annual student placements enabling students to develop people centred design skills

Similar-sized charities, same cause

CharityLocationIncome
Social Action for HealthLondon£361k
Moonlight Trustwest yoorkshire£361k
The Frederick Arthur Alford Charitable TrustHeathfield£361k
The Old Needle Works FoundationRedditch£361k