INDEPENDENT OPTIONS (NORTH WEST)

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  4 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

1. INDEPENDENT OPTIONS (NORTH WEST) 2011-02-22 → present
2. INDEPENDENT OPTIONS (NORTH WEST) LTD 2011-02-03 → 2011-02-22
3. INDEPENDENT OPTIONS (STOCKPORT) LTD. 1997-04-01 → 2011-02-03
4. THE PINES (1990) LIMITED 1990-11-21 → 1997-04-01

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Chadwick & Company (Manchester) Limited

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“After making appropriate inquiries, the Trustees have a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. For this reason, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing financial statements.”

Significant events

• “During the financial year the Charity made progress in a number of areas, which included the realisation of many benefits from the relocation to new premises at Marbury House for the Short Breaks Service and the Children and Family Centre”
• “the Supported Living Service encountered a number of significant operational problems.”
• “Following a Care Quality Commission ("CQC") inspection of the Supported Living Service which commenced on 23rd June 2025 and after discussions with the local authority commissioner of these services, Stockport Metropolitan Council, it was decided that the contracts for this service would terminate and would subsequently be delivered by other providers from 1st December 2025.”
• “majority of the Supported Living Service employees transferred to new providers (under Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 ("TUPE") and a small number of other employees who worked in related roles were made redundant.”
• “The consequence of the loss of Supported Living Service contracts was a significant loss of income and a reduction in profitability of the Charity.”
• “restructuring was successfully completed in March 2026 and has resulted in a significantly streamlined organisation with a new management team and a smaller Board of trustees.”
• “CQC inspection of the Short Breaks Service in January 2026 resulted in the award of a "Good" rating and endorses the view of the Trustees and management Team that this highly valuable service is safe, well-led, and provides compassionate, high-quality care.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

6

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

4

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +7.1%

  £5,077,174 → £5,438,712

• Cash

  +61.9%

  £995,288 → £1,611,097

  highest in 5 filed years

• Net assets

  +16.6%

  £708,755 → £826,079

• Employees

  -9.9%

  203 → 183

• Wages

  -5.7%

  £4,325,578 → £4,078,098

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. Periods don't have to be exactly 12 months apart — a long or short period (typical around incorporation or year-end changes) will distort the comparison. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers