Teesside Ability Support Centre

Analysis

Teesside Ability Support Centre is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Middlesbrough. It was registered in March 1979, 47 years ago. Its declared purposes cover disability, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 01417036). It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Teesside Ability Support Centre reported income of £1.3m and spending of £1.1m, spending 84% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £911k to £1.3m (+41%), an average of +8.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 19%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Teesside Ability Support Centre sits at the 94th percentile: it is larger than about 94% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Listening Books (£1.3m), The Not Forgotten Association (Nfa) (£1.3m) and Headway Essex (£1.3m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 91%, trading 5.3%, donations and legacies 3.0% and investments 1.0%. Charitable activities took 100% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Reserves of £1.2m would cover about 13 months of spending at that rate. It employed 33 people.