Dingley Family and Specialist Early Years Centres

Analysis

Dingley Family and Specialist Early Years Centres is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Berkshire. It was registered in August 2010, 16 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and disability, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 07279320). It says it provides services and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Dingley Family and Specialist Early Years Centres reported income of £2.5m and spending of £2.4m, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £802k to £2.5m (+216%), an average of +33% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income rose by 61%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Dingley Family and Specialist Early Years Centres sits at the 96th percentile: it is larger than about 96% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 97th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sheffield United Community Foundation (£2.5m), Nutley Hall (£2.5m) and Kite College (£2.5m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 71%, donations and legacies 12% and trading 9.3%. Gifts in wills alone brought in £183. Charitable activities took 91% of spending and raising funds 6.7%. Reserves of £386k would cover about 2 months of spending at that rate. It employed 70 people.