SECOND CHANCE - A CHARITY FOR CHILDREN WHO NEED SPECIAL HELP

Registered charity 1001462 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FOSTER AN ANGLER, The Second Chance Children's Charity

THE OBJECTS OF THE TRUST ARE TO RELIEVE AND EDUCATE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE IN NEED BECAUSE OF ADVERSE ENVIRONMENTAL, DOMESTIC, SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES BY PROVIDING FACILITIES OR OTHER RESOURCES SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED.

Objects

TO RELIEVE & EDUCATE YOUNG PEOPLE BETWEEN THE AGES OF EIGHT & EIGHTEEN WHO ARE IN NEED BECAUSE OF ADVERSE ENVIRONMENTAL, DOMESTIC, SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES BY PROVIDING FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION TO ENABLE THEM SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL & SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED.

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Winchester, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is reliant on its reserves due to income being approximately £100,000 below normal levels. The trustees report that reserves are 'looking a bit sad' following a year of increased demand for services and significant expenditure on new facilities.

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 3 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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 — Second Chance Childrens Charity (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~0.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 3.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• BARONESS LLIN GOLDINGchair
• Alex Hunt
• DOUGLAS HULME
• Dr DAVID COATES
• NEIL COLLINS
• PAUL STEVENS
• TIM MAITLAND

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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 SECOND CHANCE CHARITY.

• SECOND CHANCE CHARITY income £127k
• SECOND CHANCE ASSOCIATION income £50k
• VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY income £7.2m
• THE MAXEM TRUST income £40k
• ST ANTHONY'S YOUTH EDUCATION AND SUPPORT income £179k
• WHITEGATES CHILDREN'S TRUST income £63k

Side by side with its peers

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