Paul Ridd Foundation

The Paul Ridd Foundation has been created to support people with a learning disability to access equal health care. We want to improve the healthcare received by people with a learning disability by raising general awareness of the issues they face. We share Paul's story and train Learning Disability Champions across all Welsh Universities and Health Boards.

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

Elsewhere

• Throughout England and Wales

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2026, it had income of £17,065 and spent £11,675.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

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 43%, from £11,910 in the year to 31 March 2022 to £17,065 in the year to 31 March 2026.

Spending against income

It spent 68% of its income in the year to 31 March 2026. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.

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

Government grants in the year ending 31 March 2025: Not reported. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 1 grant to this charity, worth £9,176, awarded in 2023.

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.

Senedd and Welsh Government records that name this charity, gathered by OpenSenedd. Newest first.

• 24 January 2024

  Named by Sioned Williams in the Senedd

  …was avoidable, with an inquest in 2013 confirming he had died from natural causes contributed to by neglect. Paul's family established the Paul Ridd Foundation to help improve health outcomes for people with a learning disability. Supported by Mencap Cymru, they have worked tirelessly in highlighti…

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• 1 November 2022

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: DM for SS

  Purpose: Sefydliad Paul Ridd / Paul Ridd Foundation.

  Sefydliad Paul Ridd / Paul Ridd Foundation

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• 24 May 2022

  Named by Julie Morgan in the Senedd

  …sly, that will be carefully monitored because the health checks is one of the really important things that we want to do. You mentioned the Paul Ridd Foundation, the education, and the first stage has been done. I'd like to really pay tribute to the Paul Ridd Foundation and to his family who have ca…

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• 24 May 2022

  Named by Gareth Davies in the Senedd

  …cific actions. How far will the funding go in supporting a review of local authority day-service provision, developing tiers 2 and 3 of the Paul Ridd Foundation modules, as well as developing training and recruitment plans for learning disability nurses? Deputy Minister, I share your ambition to imp…

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• 28 July 2021

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: DM for SS

  Purpose: Paul Ridd Foundation.

  Paul Ridd Foundation

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3 trustees run the charity.

• Jonathan Ridd BEMChairAppointed 22 February 2017
• Jayne NichollsAppointed 22 February 2017
• Professor Catherine Margaret BrightAppointed 1 February 2023

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, 5 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

1171739

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

22 February 2017

Governing document

CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 22 Feb 2017

Website

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

Council area of its contact address

Neath Port Talbot

• 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.
• In the Senedd and Welsh Government: records gathered by OpenSenedd and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 5 November 2026.

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

• OpenSenedd: Senedd records that name this charity
• OpenCouncil: Neath Port Talbot Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Neath Port Talbot's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Brycheiniog Tawe Nedd
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Afan Ogwr Rhondda