SUPPORT AFTER MURDER AND MANSLAUGHTER

Registered charity 1000598 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PARENTS OF MURDERED CHILDREN, SAMM NATIONAL

SAMM is an independent voluntary organisation. We offer help and support to those bereaved as a result of murder or manslaughter. Our volunteers have been similarly bereaved and can share what this feels like. We are also involved in training and research, raising public awareness and increasing the understanding of organisations who work closely with bereaved families.

Objects

A. TO SUPPORT ITS MEMBERS THROUGH SELF HELP, ADVICE, AND ALL METHODS WHICH ARE APPROPRIATE AND AVAILABLE.B. TO WORK WITH GOVERNMENT OFFICES AND ALL PARTS OF THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN UNDERSTANDING THE PROBLEMS EXPERIENCED BY PEOPLE BEREAVED THROUGH HOMICIDE (MURDER OR MANSLAUGHTER).C. TO WORK WITH HEALTH SERVICES OFFERING ASSISTANCE TO THOSE SIMILARLY BEREAVED.D. TO ORGANISE AND SUPPORT RESEARCH INTO THE EFFECTS OF HOMICIDE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Birmingham, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held £110,724 in unrestricted reserves, which the trustees assess as equivalent to approximately 10 months of running costs, exceeding their stated policy target of 6 months. The charity reported a net expenditure for the year, with total income of £246,183 and total expenditure of £238,417, resulting in a net decrease in funds of £8,184.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Support After Murder & Manslaughter (SAMM) (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• National Lottery — “We were recently awarded National Lottery funding and with the support of Dame Casey we were able to repeat the survey from the original rev…” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rosaleen Dixonchair
• AVRIL ROYLE
• DAVID REID
• Helen Smith
• Jane Deamer
• MARIE ELLIS
• MARIE WRIGHT
• SYLVIA SMITHIES

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SAMR TRUST.

• SAMR TRUST income £188k
• MURDERED ABROAD income £29k
• MANCHESTER AND SALFORD SAMARITANS income £145k
• SAMEACH income £80k
• Sam's Place NW Ltd income £82k
• SAMEE income £763k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.