Providing Opportunities and Support

Analysis

Providing Opportunities and Support is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bristol. It was registered in January 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, disability, arts/culture/heritage/science and amateur sport, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 04258857). It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending December 2024, Providing Opportunities and Support reported income of £1.2m and spending of £1.3m, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2024, income grew from £748k to £1.2m (+62%), an average of +18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 33%. Over the whole period it spent 109% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Providing Opportunities and Support sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 93% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 94th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Teamwork Trust (£1.2m), Milton Keynes Citizens Advice Bureau (£1.2m) and C.d.p. (St. Helens) Ltd. (£1.2m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 72%, trading 20% and donations and legacies 7.1%. Charitable activities took 93% of spending and raising funds 1.9%. Reserves of £77k would cover about 1 months of spending at that rate. It employed 57 people.

Data notes from the register: The regulator lists this charity's latest annual return or accounts as overdue. Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.