Organisation for Anti-convulsant Syndrome

Organisation for Anti-convulsant Syndromes works to support families affected by disabilities caused by the adverse effects of medications used in pregnancy.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

Elsewhere

• Throughout England and Wales
• Scotland
• Northern Ireland

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined in Practice National and Overseas

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

The register has no income or spending figures for this charity.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Up 169%, from £507 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £1,363 in the year to 31 December 2024.

Spending against income

It spent 58% of its income in the year to 31 December 2024. It spent more than its income in 1 of the 4 years shown.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 3 grants to this charity since 2005, worth at least £15,000.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

3 trustees run the charity.

• Mrs Jo CozensChairAppointed 1 March 2014
• Carol LapidgeAppointed 1 January 2018
• Karen KeelyAppointed 27 April 2014

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 1 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1116497

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

24 October 2006

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 19 DECEMBER 2005

Website

www.oacscharity.orgAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Caerphilly

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: Caerphilly Council's meetings and decisions
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