A D D INFORMATION SERVICES ANNUAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31[ST ] MARCH 2025
Charity Number: 1070827
A D D Information Services Contents Page
Content Page Number Charity Information 3 Trustees Report 4 to 19 Independent Examiner’s Report 20 Statement of Financial Activities 21 Balance Sheet 22 Notes to the Accounts 23 to 28
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A D D Information Services Charity Information
Organisation Name: A D D Information Services
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|Independent Examiner:|Community Barnet|
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A D D Information Services Trustees Report For the year ended 31[st ] March 2025
Headlines
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ADDISS is still here.
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Key sources of revenue have reduced
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The increase in adult diagnosis places a strain on organisations like ours
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Proving support to people waiting for diagnosis and treatment from the NHS remains a priority
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There is still much to do, and will be for the foreseeable future
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We need to continue the process of recovering our full financial and operational strength to move forward
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There are vital local and national actions that need to be taken now
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Our understanding and experience of local, individual support gives us unique insight into what is needed at the national scale
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We are going on with our mission.
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common neurodevelopmental disorder affecting approximately 5-7% of school-age children and adolescents. It can persist into adulthood, impacting daily functioning, academic performance, and overall quality of life. Core symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity affect not only individuals but also families, caregivers, and broader social environments. In children and adolescents, untreated or poorly managed ADHD is associated with a higher risk of educational underachievement, behavioural problems, and strained family relationships , while in adults, it can result in job instability, relationship difficulties, and increased risk of substance abuse and mortality .
About ADDISS
Attention Deficit Disorder Information Services (ADDISS) is a registered charity dedicated to serving individuals and their families affected by the highly prevalent medical condition, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and a wide range of comorbid conditions that either result from ADHD or have a greater impact because of ADHD.
Our purposes include:
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ensuring that all individuals affected by ADHD receive the care and appropriate, treatment they need from schools, social services, mental health services and other organisations
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promoting knowledge, understanding and positive attitudes
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towards ADHD in society
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influencing practitioners and key decision-makers
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ADDISS works at both a national and local level in partnership with local support groups to provide information, training and support for parents, people with ADHD and professionals in the fields of ADHD and related learning and behavioural difficulties. What we learn from our local activities is vital to our own national strategy and to the challenges of ADHD generally.
We support a multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment protocol, including education and behavioural interventions, with or without medication and aim to help and support families in finding the most appropriate approach to intervention for their child or for an adult with ADHD. Our work is supported and guided by its professional board of expert advisors.,
ADDISS in 2024-25: challenges, actions and achievements
ADDISS continues to face significant challenges but continues to deliver strong, effective support to ADHD individuals and the wider community as well as make limited progress on development work. However, dealing with day-to-day challenges for our clients and for the charity itself has limited how much mediumterm development we have been able to undertake.
2024-25 was another difficult year but we were able to attract contracts from schools and local authorities mainly social services.. Pressure on NHS services continue to grow as we see a huge increase in referrals and very long waiting lists for both children and adults.. .
Finances and fundraising
ADDISS remained active and solvent in the year, but our financial position continues to suffer while we rebuild following Covid19: we have not been able to deliver training courses and other services that normally provide significant income but this has improved in 2025.
Our rent and utilities are paid for by our trading subsidiary. This is mainly funded through our licenced training programme for professionals which has taken the biggest hit during lockdown and we have yet to get back to the level of income pre-pandemic. We are working on restoring this income.
We recognise the considerable challenges that we face in the medium term, in common with many smaller charities. We are developing a strategy that will allow ADDISS to grow in key areas while maintaining the affordable and funded services we offer to people affected by ADHD and their families. The objective is to increase its capacity to improve the lives of people with ADHD as well as make ADDISS sustainable in the long term. This will include strengthening our infrastructure as well as developing and delivering support and services to more people.
Our funding sources in 2024-2025
Young Barnet Foundation – Space to Grow Fund European Research projects UK Research Projects Individual donations and Fundraisers using the Just Giving Platform. Subscriptions Service Contracts with Local authorities Coaching services Psychotherapy Services National Lottery
Our mission and vital objectives: what we do
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Achieving recognition of ADHD and advocacy for children and adults
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Providing clear and factually based information about ADHD to parents, teachers, social service professionals, healthcare professionals and policymakers
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Supporting a broad range of evidence-based interventions
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Working with professional and patient organisations in the fields of health, education and youth justice
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Providing access to advice for children, adults and families from knowledgeable peers
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Our values: how we operate
These principles are essential to the way ADDISS operates and will underpin its new strategy.
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Collaborative
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Never giving up: persistence and resilience in supporting families through difficult and demanding circumstances
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Empathetic and compassionate while remaining objective
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Accuracy, completeness, objectivity, evidence-based
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Expert
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Positive about the value that ADHD people bring to all aspects of society if they have the support, they need
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Engaging and communicative with everyone affected by ADHD or involved in care and treatment of ADHD individuals
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and everyone who makes or influences policy about care for ADHD people
Our role in reducing the long-term effects of ADHD
The support and information that ADDISS provides aims to reduce the long-term impact of undiagnosed, misdiagnosed or untreated ADHD on:
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individuals
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families
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schools
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mental health and social services
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employers and colleagues
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children and adults.
ADHD is a significant cause of personal and social problems. Without adequate support and interventions or with incorrect diagnosis ADHD can result in:
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Wasted lives, unrealised potential
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Under-performance at school, unnecessary exclusion and reduced educational achievement
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Mental health problems
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Difficulties in making and sustaining relationships (with peers, teachers and family)
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Difficulties finding and keeping a job
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Substance abuse, addictions, gambling, failed relationships
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Increasing involvement with the criminal justice system
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School to prison pipeline
ADDISS ensures that the patient voice is heard through our Collaboration with other organisations
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ADDISS remains a member of ADHD Europe
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Our CEO is an ambassador for ADHD Europe
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Our treasurer represents ADDISS as the treasurer/board member for ADHD Europe
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A member of Gaiman Europe (Global Alliance of Mental Illness Advocacy Networks)
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Our CEO represents ADDISS as a committee member of the Lancet ADHD Project and gave a talk at the Lancet’s Hong Kong conference
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ADDISS and ADHD now
ADDISS operates in a world in which understanding of ADHD is changing, but actual action to support individuals, families and the community is visibly lagging . That lag creates not only significant problems and pain for individuals and their families but also puts unnecessary pressure on the community and on services and institutions. Equally distressing is the lost individual potential and loss to society of people with talent and energy who could be effective and happy if only the right type of support was available to all of them. Above all, ADDISS exists to close this gap and so benefit ADHD individuals and the communities they belong to personally and structurally.
It is estimated that between 3% and 7% of school age children in the UK have ADHD. The UK’s National Institute for Clinical Excellence, (NICE), suggests that it affects 5% of the school-aged population. People do not ‘grow out’ of the condition and the majority of those children will continue to have significant problems dealing with their ADHD throughout adulthood and into old age. ADDISS directly supports people at all stages of their lives, including vital work to support families in crisis.
However, although there are lots of headlines about ADHD and more apparent public recognition, there is little commitment to action that would help in both the short and medium term.
There have been notable changes in the way professionals in healthcare, social or educational settings perceive ADHD as a distinct clinical entity, and the virtually universal acceptance of the need for an early diagnosis and management of this eminently treatable condition.
However, this is not evenly distributed across the UK and many people are not able to benefit from it. There is a drastic lack of service provision and support for families and individuals.
In the longer term, this represents massive loss of potential for society and the economy: the strengths and potential of ADHD people are lost through poor education, misdiagnosis, lack of service provision and misunderstanding among some medical professionals, The net effect is a large unnecessary additional financial burden on the public purse: some studies have estimated the cost to the UK could be £3.6bn (Demos; 2018 figure) .
Positive signs ADDISS can build on
Given the high prevalence of ADHD, there is, however, a general acceptance amongst policymakers in the UK Government as to the economic and human cost associated with unrecognised or untreated ADHD, both personally on the lives of individuals in short- and long- term, and collectively on the society as a whole. Indeed, there is now a widely held consensus that undiagnosed, misdiagnosed and untreated ADHD can be a factor in youth crime, substance drug abuse and higher prevalence of self-harm. ADDISS’s challenge is to make sure that this thinking has an impact on the real lives of people affected by ADHD .
Our strategy for 2025-26 and onwards engages directly with these issues. Our main initiatives will be to:
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repair and strengthen our income
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the development of a national helpline and associated services able to provide significant support to people with ADHD and their families and carers, based on our existing telephone support service.
ADDISS and the ADHD challenge ahead
As long as ADHD continues to be overlooked in many areas of life and by many organisations, ADDISS will be an essential organisation.
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To people affected by ADHD and their families
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To schools
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To social services
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To the NHS and mental health services
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To policymakers
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As the UK emerges from responding to the pandemic, it has become clear that the pressures on ADHD individuals and their families, as well as schools, employers and public services, has grown and that many ADHD-affected people have suffered severe mental health impacts. Health and social services for ADHD people have not been expanded to deal with the increased demand.
Picking up the pieces is beyond the capacity of any single one of the UK charities supporting ADHD work and, like all others involve in ADHD, ADDISS will need to review its activities and the use that it makes of its very stretched resources.
PRACTICAL SUPPORT
We continue to provide a part time helpline and related services. We are delighted that our psychotherapist continues to be a part of our team, working part-time on a voluntary basis; supporting families and individuals on the helpline once a week giving in depth advice and support., He also delivers therapy and support for adults with ADHD, young people and their families. We have parent coaches on our team who work directly with parents and young people themselves offering strategies to manage their ADHD both in school and in the community.
We continue to work directly with families in group and individual support. We are supporting adults and children with complex and diverse needs.
It is essential that young people and adults with ADHD are able to access some of the treatment they need to improve their quality of life. However, this access is still extremely variable - between different parts of the country, different services, different professions and different views of what causes behaviour. Our work will hopefully enable many more people with ADHD to get the treatment they need – or ask for the specific appropriate help they need. - delivered to them within health services.
The views of our work are commonly expressed by the subscribers and users of ADDISS services - which include many thousands of children, young people, ADHD adults, parents and carers, and professionals from many fields. These professionals include teachers, psychiatrists, nursery nurses, psychologists, paediatricians, enlightened staff of the youth, police and prison services and many more. This growing group of ADHD affected, and ADHD-friendly people has influenced the work and direction of ADDISS over the 29 plus years since it was set up.
ADHD AWARENESS IN PROFESSIONS AND THROUGH SOCIETY
Many professionals are involved in the recognition, diagnosis, treatment and management of people affected by ADHD: GPs, nurses, psychotherapists, teachers, social workers, probation officers, police officers, prison staff and others. Some all very well informed but many have not had the opportunity to learn usefully and consistently about ADHD and its impact.
A key longer-term objective for ADDISS is to start addressing that information gap. We are working hard at supporting individuals and families, but often the context in which we provide that support is one of limited information or understanding among the different services and organisations they interact with. ADDISS is well positioned to address that gap based on both its knowledge of ADHD and its understanding of the lived experience of its members and clients.
This will form a major part of our strategy in the longer-term term once the organisation has recovered from the disruption to operations and funding resulting from the pandemic, and an improved helpline is firmly established.
Review of our activity and impact
UK-WIDE PRACTICAL SUPPORT FOR INDIVIDUALS
Helpline
The telephone helpline run by ADDISS is the only helpline providing specialist information and advice on ADHD in the UK which provides open access for everyone. Due to the lack of awareness around ADHD and the services available for sufferers, the ADDISS helpline is often the first, and sometimes only, port of call for
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individuals, or their parents, who suspect that they, or their children, have ADHD. It is still run with a skeleton staff, but the passion of the staff to give help and advice to those most in need make up for their small number.
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As well as the helpline itself, we support families with letters to schools, attending tribunals and offering training to staff. This is time-consuming, resource-intensive but is a lifeline for the people we support in addition to receiving calls on the helpline, we also receive many enquiries via email. Given our limited resources we are unable to answer all. We have identified this as an area that needs more investment either in staff resources or improvement in our digital technology.
The main subjects of calls were:
Seeking a diagnosis : Calls from both parents and adults seeking a route to diagnosis are still by far the greatest number of calls. In the last couple of years we have seen an explosion in adult diagnosis and especially women in midlife. ADDISS provides advice and support: helping them navigate the system has been a lifeline for many.
Post Diagnosis: Most calls were from adults looking for Coaching, advice on Access to Work and asking for some kind of therapeutic help
Gaming addiction : An increasing problem in younger children especially during lockdown and one with little UK expertise.
Education : Many parents call us because their children’s needs are not being properly met in school. They are misunderstood, mismanaged, and lack of staff training leads to inappropriate punishments and exclusions. ADDISS provides advice and support.
LOCAL PRACTICAL SUPPORT
Support for ADHD in Barnet
ADDISS provides intensive hands-on support to families in Barnet. We work with families mainly in the Barnet area of North London. We aim to improve the life chances and outcomes for ADHD people and support their families and schools. Barnet is the second largest borough in London where 9000 children are living with ADHD. Many families who have children with ADHD find that they have difficulty managing their children’s behaviour and that their children are often socially isolated at school and in their local communities.
ADDISS also partners with Voluntary Sector organisations in the local area, including
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Inclusion Barnet
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Barnet CYP Mental Health and Wellbeing forum
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Barnet Adult Learning Disabilities service
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Adult Social Care
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Children Services
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Young Barnet Foundation
Work with schools
We have been delivering a number of programmes in local primary schools for parents of children with ADHD. We ran an exclusion intervention project for children at risk of exclusion. This has been funded by the Young Barnet Foundation.
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Working with Childrens Services
As the only provider of specialist ADHD interventions, we have worked with Childrens Services in Barnet to provide input for complex families at risk where ADHD is a compounding factor. We have been providing intensive in the home support for families at risk of losing their children. We have been involved in a number of child protection cases where we have been able to make great changes in the home and prevent children being taken into care.
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Mentoring and Coaching
Our staff have provided and continue to provide mentoring and coaching services to young teenagers with ADHD. We offer study strategies and psycho education to teenagers to help support their ADHD symptoms We have been providing coaching services to adults with ADHD and to a number of adults through Access to Work funding.
ADVANCING KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION IN THE UK AND INTERNATIONALLY
Website and social media
We continue to work on updating our website, not just with information but with new technology to allow better engagement and interaction. We have made progress with our project to completely replace our website with a version meeting modern standards and hosting a wealth of information as well as using digital technology to allow us to connect better with the public and our subscribers.
We currently run a number of closed Facebook groups with over 30,000 members. These are strongly moderated. We have two public Facebook pages which allow us to share information very quickly with followers. Our Facebook pages have a combined following of over 10,000 followers. We also run an international Facebook goup in collaboration with Empower ADD which has in excess of 13000 followers. We also manage a twitter account @UK_ADHD with over 5,000 followers, We need to increase our access to core IT, web and social media skills, either through recruitment or suitable contracts.
PARTICIPATION IN PROJECTS AND RESEARCH
Through our contact with people affected by ADHD and their lived experience, our online groups, newsletter, Facebook page and email newsletter we assist in the understanding of lived experience of ADHD. We apply this knowledge through participation as partners in a number of multi-partner research projects. Our role is typically as Investigator responsible for Patient and Public Inviolvement. More crucially we able to bring the patients voice to the researcher, We also help with the dissemination of project outcomes. ADDISS has been asked to participate in a significant number of UK and international research projects with leading universities, including:
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University College London
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Kings College London
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University of Oxford
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University of Newcastle
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University of Southampton
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University of Berne
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Hong Kong University
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University of Nottingham
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University of Huddersfield
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Radboud University, Netherlands
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ADDISS is uniquely trusted to do this by researchers because of its deep, long-standing hands-on support for individuals and families affected by ADHD. Projects in which we are involved include research into
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the relationship between nutrition and ADHD
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how ADHD and obesity may interact
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sleep factors and ADHD
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crosstalk between genetics, immune activation/ inflammation, and microbiome
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pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions
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ADHD and remote technology
ADDISS benefits financially through funding for these projects, but they are also significant in building longterm relationships with our partners and extending our knowledge through direct access to the detailed research results and informal knowledge generated.
ADDISS continues to participate in research projects that run from 2023-26
We are partners in several new funding approved projects with responsibility for patient participation.
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DISCA - Digital Sleep Support for Children with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (The DISCA
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Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) Programme: NIHR203035 – Comparing pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions for adults with AttentionDeficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): systematic review and network metaanalysis
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Co-producing Implementation of RECOGNeyes in Schools (COIRS)
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Pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions for adults with ADHD
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ATTENS - A multi-centre, blinded, randomized, parallel-group, phase IIb study to compare the efficacy of real versus sham external Trigeminal Nerve Stimulation (eTNS) on symptoms in youth with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
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A DHD R emote T echnology and ADHD transition: predicting and preventing negative outcomes ( ART-transition)
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Timespan fostering improvements in risk stratification and of the treatments for patients with ADHD who also have a cardiometabolic disease. ADDISS will host a patient day in April 2025 sharing outcomes with patients
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Candy. Our overall goal is to improve the understanding of the crosstalk between genetics, immune activation/ inflammation, and microbiome, and thereby provide a compelling novel conceptual framework
| Trustees’ Name | Trustees’ Role | Date Appointed/Co- Opted |
Date Resigned |
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| Mrs Jessica Hyams | Co-chair | 20.02.2016 | |
| Mrs Sharon O’Dell | Treasurer | 12.03.2011 | |
| Mrs JennyMissen | Co-chair | 12.03.2011 | |
| Dr Rashmin C Tamhne | Secretary | 12.03.2011 | |
| Ernest Ambe | Trustee | 12.09.2021 | 26.11.2024 |
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Members of the Professional Advisory Board:
Prof. Eric Taylor Prof. Peter Hill Professor Phil Asherson Dr Daphne Keen Prof. Ian Wong Paul Cooper PhD Dr Nikos Myttas Dr Paramala Santosh Dr David Coghill Dr Val Harpin Prof. Amanda Kirby Professor Chris Hollis Dr Ulrich Muller-Sedgwick Jane -Sedgwick-Muller Dr Maite Ferrin
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Trustees’ responsibilities in relation to the financial statements
The A D D Information Services trustees are responsible for preparing a trustees’ annual report and financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice)
The law applicable to Charities in England and Wales requires Trustees to prepare financial statements for each year, which give a true and fair view of the situation of the charity and of the incoming resources and application of resources for that period. In preparing the financial statements the trustees are required to: -
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select suitable accounting policies and apply them consistently.
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observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP
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make judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent.
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state whether applicable UK accounting standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements
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prepare the financial statements on the ‘going concern’ basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in business.
The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time, the financial position of the charity and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with Charities Act 2011. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
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The Trustees declare that they have approved this report.
Full Name: Jennifer Missen Position: Chair of Trustees Signature: Date: 27.01.2026 UP
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A D D Information Services Independent Examiner’s Report For the year ended 31st March 2025
Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner
The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 and that an independent examination is needed.
It is my responsibility to:
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examine the accounts under section 145 of the Charities Act,
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to follow the procedures laid down in the general directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 145(5)(b) of the Charities Act, and
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to state whether matters have come to my attention.
Basis of independent examiner’s statement
My examination was carried out in accordance with general directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts and seeking explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a ‘true and fair’ view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.
Independent examiner's statement
In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention
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which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in, any material respect, the requirements:
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to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; and
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to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the Charities Act have not been met; or
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to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Signature: ………………………………… Name: Dorota Platt
Date: 23/01/2026
Independent Examiner
Address: Community Barnet SEIDS Hub, Empire Way, Wembley, HA9 0RJ
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A D D Information Services Statement of Financial Activities For the year ended 31[st ] March 2025
| Note | Unrestricted | Restricted | Restricted | Total | Total | |
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| s | Funds | Funds | Funds | Funds | ||
| 2025 | 2025 | 2025 | 2024 | |||
| Income from: | £ | £ | £ | £ | ||
| Charitable Activities | 2 | 61,860 | - | - | 61,860 | 127,073 |
| Investments | 3 | 34 | - | 34 | 79 | |
| Total Income | 61,,894 | - | 61,894 | 127,152 | ||
| Expenditure on: | ||||||
| Charitable Activities | 4 | (52,399) | (23,548) | (75,947) | (111,482) | |
| Total Expenditure | (52,399) | (23,548) | (75,947) | (111,482)) | ||
| Net Income and | ||||||
| (Expenditure) before | ||||||
| transfers | 9,495 | 9,495 | (14,053) | 15.670 | ||
| Transfers | - | 4,558 | - | - | ||
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| Net Income and | ||||||
| (Expenditure) | 9,495 | 4,558 | (14,053) | 15,670 | ||
| Reconciliation of Funds | ||||||
| Total Funds Brought | ||||||
| Forward | 28,801 | 7,149 | 29,804 | 29,804 | ||
| Total Funds Carried | ||||||
| Forward | **38,296 ** | 11,707 | 15,751 | **45,474 ** |
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A D D Information Services Notes to the Financial Statements For the year ended 31[st ] March 2025
Statement of Financial Activities For the year ended 31[st ] March 2025
| 2025 | 2025 | 2024 | 2024 | ||
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| Notes | £ £ | £ £ | £ £ | £ £ | |
| Fixed Assets | |||||
| Investment | 5 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | |
| 25,000 | 25,000 | ||||
| Current Assets | |||||
| Cash at Hand and Bank | 5,177 | 12,480 | |||
| Debtors | 6 3,000 |
3,000 | 21,696 | ||
| 8,177 | 34,175 | ||||
| Creditors: Amounts falling due within one | |||||
| year | 7 (6,981) |
(6,981) | (13,702) | ||
| 1,196 | 20,473 | 20,473 | |||
| 26,196 | 45,474 | 45,474 | |||
| Restricted Funds | 8 (56,008) |
(56,008) | (56,008) | 7,149 | |
| Unrestricted Funds | 9 | 52,152 | 38,325 | 38,325 | |
| (3,856) | 45,474 | 45,474 |
The Trustees declare that they have approved this
report.
Full Name: Jennifer Missen
Position: Chair of Trustees
Signature: Date: 27.01.2026
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A D D Information Services Notes to the Financial Statements For the year ended 31[st ] March 2025
Basis of accounting
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing them accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2015) - (Charities SORP (FRS 102)), the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and the Companies Act 2006.
In preparing the accounts, the trustees have considered whether in applying the accounting policies required by FRS 102 and the Charities SORP FRS 102 the restatement of comparative items was required. After due consideration, it was concluded that no restatement of the comparatives was required.
The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis. In arriving at this conclusion, the trustees have taken into account any material uncertainties that may affect the charity’s ability to continue as a going concern.
Recognition of Incoming Resources
These are included in the Statement of Financial Activities (SOFA) when:
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the charity becomes entitled to the resources.
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the trustees are virtually certain they will receive the resources; and
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the monetary value can be measured with sufficient reliability.
Funds Structure
Unrestricted income funds comprise those funds which the trustees are free to use for any purpose in furtherance of the charitable objects. Unrestricted funds include designated funds where the trustees, at their discretion, have created a fund for a specific purpose.
Restricted funds are funds which are to be used in accordance with specific restrictions imposed by the funder.
Income recognition
All income is recognised once the charity has entitled to the income, there is sufficient certainty or receipt and so it is probable that the income will be received, and the amount of income receivable can be measured reliably.
Grants and Donations
Grants and donations are only included in the SOFA when the charity has unconditional entitlement to the resources. Donations represent voluntary amounts received during the year.
Expenditure recognition
Liabilities are recognized as expenditure as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to that expenditure, it is probable that settlement will be required, and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably.
All expenditure is accounted for on an accrual’s basis. All expenses, including support costs and governance costs, are allocated or apportioned to the applicable expenditure headings in the statement of financial activities.
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A D D Information Services Notes to the Financial Statements For the year ended 31[st ] March 2025
1. A C C O U N T I N G POLICIES (continued)
Cash Flow Statement
The Charity has taken advantage of FRS 102 (Section 1A) which exempts small charities from preparing Cash Flow Statements.
Trade Debtors
Trade and other debtors are recognized at the settlement amount due. Prepayments are valued at the amount prepaid.
Trade Creditors
Creditors and provisions are recognised where the charity has a present obligation resulting from a past event that will probably result in the transfer of funds to a third party and the amount due to settle the obligation can be measured or estimated reliably.
Fixed Assets
Fixed Assets costing £250 or more are initially recorded at cost.
Depreciation
It is provided on tangible fixed assets to write off the cost or valuation, less any estimation residual value over their expected useful economic life as follows:
Plant and Machinery 33% reducing balance basis Fixtures and Fittings 25% reducing balance basis
Investment
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A D D Information Services Notes to the Financial Statements For the year ended 31[st ] March 2025
2. Income from Charitable Activities
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| Unrestricted | Funds | Funds | Total | |
| Funds 2025 | 2025 | 2025 | Funds 2024 | |
| £ | £ | £ | £ | |
| Behave | - | - | - | - |
| Eat 2 Be Nice | - | - | - | - |
| Base | - | - | - | - |
| Barnet CCG | - | - | - | - |
| Young Barnet Foundation | - | - | - | 8,100 |
| European Grants | - | - | - | 9,970 |
| Pears Foundation | - | - | 8,500 | 8,500 |
| Grant Income | 12,731 | - 12,731 |
12,731 | |
| Contract Income | (769) | - | (769) | 3,089 |
| Donations and Gifts | 3,507 | - | 3,507 | 10,424 |
| Fundraising Income | 1,325 | - 1,325 |
1,325 | |
| Other Income | 82 | - | 82 9,301 |
9,301 |
| Conference, Book Sales and | ||||
| Support Services | 10,752 | - | 10,752 | |
| Subscription | - | - | 2,226 | |
| Consultancy and Training | 34,230 | 34,230 | 65,468 | |
| National Lottery | - | 9,994 | ||
| Total | 61,859 | - |
61,859 127,073 |
127,073 |
| 3. Investment Income | ||||
| Total | ||||
| Unrestricted | Restricted | Funds | Total Funds | |
| Funds | Funds | 2024 | 2023 | |
| £ | £ | £ | £ | |
| Bank Interest | 34 | 0 | 79 | 79 |
| 34 | 0 |
79 | 79 |
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A D D Information Services Notes to the Financial Statements For the year ended 31[st ] March 2025
4. Total Expenditure on Charitable Activities
| Restricted | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unrestricted | Funds | Funds | Total | |
| Funds 2025 | 2025 | 2025 | Funds 2024 | |
| £ | £ | £ | £ | |
| Publicity Costs | - | - | - | |
| Salaries | 33,561 | 23,548 | 57,109 | 101,601 |
| Other Direct Costs | 13,238 | - | 22,000 | 3,279 |
| Establishment Costs | 20,093 | 19,508 | ||
| Printing, posting and Stationery | - | 449 | ||
| Travel and Subsistence | - | - | - | |
| Accountancy Fees | 5,600 | - | 4,000 | 3,825 |
| Governance | - | - |
- |
|
| 52,399 | 23,548 |
75,947 |
128,213 |
The rental expenditure for the Charity was donated and paid by ADD Information Services Ltd.
5. Investments held as Fixed Assets
| Investment in group and associated | |
|---|---|
| undertakings | |
| Market Value | £ |
| As at 1st April 2021 and 31st March 2025 | 25,000 |
| Net book value | |
| As at 31st March 2025 | 25,000 |
| As at 31st March 2024 | 25,000 |
All investment assets were held in the UK.
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A D D Information Services Notes to the Financial Statements For the year ended 31[st ] March 2025
The charity holds more than 20% of the share capital of the following company:
| Country of | Principal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subsidiary undertakings | Incorporation | Activity | Class | % | |||||
| Marketing | |||||||||
| of books | |||||||||
| and videos | |||||||||
| and the | |||||||||
| running of | |||||||||
| conferences | |||||||||
| on Attention | |||||||||
| Deficit | |||||||||
| A D D Information Services Limited | England and Wales |
Disorder Syndrome |
Ordinary Shares |
100 | |||||
| Profit/(loss) for | |||||||||
| Subsidiary undertakings Capital & Reserves | Subsidiary undertakings Capital & Reserves | Subsidiary undertakings Capital & Reserves | the period | ||||||
| £ £ | £ £ | £ £ | £ £ | £ £ | £ £ | ||||
| A D D Information Services Limited | A D D Information Services Limited | A D D Information Services Limited2,946 | 2,946 | 2,946 | (22,054) | (22,054) | (22,054) | ||
| 6. Debtors | |||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | ||||||||
| £ | £ | ||||||||
| Trade Debtors | 13,401 | 3,4,175 | 3,4,175 | ||||||
| 13,401 | 34,175 | 34,175 | 34,175 | 34,175 | |||||
| 7. Creditors | |||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | ||||||||
| £ | £ | ||||||||
| Other Creditors | 6,981 | 6,981 | 13,702 | 13,702 | 13,702 | 13,702 | |||
| 6,981 ~~OE~~ |
13,702 ~~————~~ |
13,702 |
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A D D Information Services Notes to the Financial Statements For the year ended 31[st ] March 2025
8. Restricted Funds
| 8. Restricted Funds | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| At 1st April | Incoming | Resources | At 31st | |
| 2024 | Resources | Expended | March 2025 | |
| £ | £ | £ | £ | |
| Behave | 1 | - | - | |
| London Borough of Barnet | 1 | - | - | |
| Young Barnet Foundation | 4,916 | |||
| Candy | 10 | |||
| Contact a Family | 158 | |||
| National Lottery | 708 - | |||
| Timespan | 1355 | |||
| Total | 7149 |
9. Unrestricted Funds
| 9. Unrestricted Funds | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| At 1st | Incoming | Resources | At 31st | |
| April 2024 | Resources | Expended | March 2025 | |
| £ | £ | £ | £ | |
| General Funds | 28,801 | 23,548 |
(52,399) |
(50) |
10. Related Parties
Controlling entity
The Charity is controlled by the trustees.
Related party transaction
At the balance sheet date, Mrs. J Missen and Mrs. O’Dell jointly owned on trust all the issue share capital of A D D Information Services Limited on behalf of A D D Information Services.
11. Employees Remuneration
The aggregate payroll cost of these were as follows:
| 2025 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| £ | £ | |
| Wages and Salaries | 52,261 | 60,092 |
| Social Security | 2,723 | 2,723 |
| Pension | 2,125 | 2,125 |
| 57,109 | 64,940 |
No Trustees received any remuneration during the year. No Employees were paid more than £60,000 this financial year.
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