Growth and Expansion Affinity Trust is a growing national charity operating across England and Scotland, supporting almost 900 individuals with learning disabilities and complex needs. With a sizable workforce and a clear focus on supported living, they offer scalable opportunities for partnerships in housing, service delivery, and compliance-driven program expansion.

Digital Modernization The organization uses a mix of legacy technologies (Backbone.js, jQuery, PHP on Ubuntu) and security tooling like Sentry, indicating readiness for digital modernization. This presents opportunities for modernizing the tech stack, implementing a new CRM and donor-management solution, cloud hosting, and enhanced cybersecurity and data analytics.

Leadership Transition The retirement of long-serving CEO Leo Sowerby, announced in 2024 with a spring 2025 transition, creates a window for leadership advisory, interim management, governance review, and strategic continuity planning to support ongoing growth and stability.

Care Model Focus The core model focuses on supported living for people with learning disabilities and complex needs, rather than residential care, suggesting opportunities to partner on staffing, care-training programs (such as Positive Behaviour Support), and technology-enabled care solutions like telecare and remote monitoring.

Efficiency and Compliance With revenue in the tens of millions and a large yet lean workforce, Affinity Trust may seek efficiency improvements, program management and donor/grant management capabilities, and procurement optimization to sustain impact while controlling costs.