BRENTWOOD CATHOLIC CHILDREN'S SOCIETY

Registered charity 1000661 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as B C C S, CHILDCARE

Providing counselling and therapeutic services for children and young adults up to 18 years and their families. We work in partnership with other agencies and schools, and our concern is the emotional health and well-being of children and young people. The main focus is the early intervention, prevention and mitigation of behavioral and emotional problems. We provide training for school staff.

Objects

THE SUPPORT CARE AND EDUCATION AND MAINTENANCE OF AND OTHERWISE TO PROMOTE THE PHYSICAL MENTAL MORAL AND SPIRITUAL WELFARE OF CHILDREN OR YOUNG PERSONS REGARDLESS OF BACKGROUND RACE OR RELIGION WHO ARE EITHER POOR OR IN DANGER OR FROM PHYSICAL OR SEXUAL ABUSE OR DEPRIVED OF HOME FAMILY OR PARENTS OR IN DANGER OF SUCH DEPRIVATION OR HANDICAPPED.

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Basildon, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves increased to £2,301,296, representing 21.85 months of expenditure, which is significantly above the trustees' stated policy target of 5 to 6 months. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £131,474 for the year, driven largely by significant legacy income, while operational income from fees and services also grew. The trustees confirm that the charity has healthy cash balances and sufficient liquid reserves to continue its work without material uncertainty.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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 — BCCS - Brentwood Catholic Children's Society (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Bernadette Fisher — Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £1.1m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~37.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 12.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/02/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MAIRE MAISCHchair
• Amy Wilsher
• Andrew Joseph Burns
• Beth Przybylska
• Cynthia Fernandes
• Dean Cassar · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ferdinand Tisi
• Joanne Santinelli
• John Adshead
• Maria Wrench
• Mary Ward
• Mary-Ann Deasy
• Matthew Chapman
• Rev Matthew Bemand-Qureshi
• Robert Hayes
• Sanjay Lucose Thomas

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

Operates in: Barking And Dagenham · Essex · Havering · Newham · Redbridge · Waltham Forest

Income and spending

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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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRANDON CENTRE FOR COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.

• BRANDON CENTRE FOR COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE income £2.1m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF BRENTWOOD income £217k
• MAKING A DIFFERENCE income £30k
• ROBERTSBRIDGE CHILDREN'S SERVICES income £546k
• THE CATHOLIC CHILDREN'S SOCIETY (WESTMINSTER) income £3.4m
• THE BETHANY CHILDREN'S TRUST income £143k

Side by side with its peers

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