ERIC (EDUCATION AND RESOURCES FOR IMPROVING CHILDHOOD CONTINENCE)

Registered charity 1002424 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as E R I C, EDUCATION AND RESOURCES FOR IMPROVING CHILDHOOD CON, ENURESIS RESOURCE AND INFORMATION CENTRE, ERIC, ERIC, The Children's Bowel and Bladder Charity

ERIC provides expert support, information, education and understanding to children, young people and their families, enabling parents, carers and professionals across health, early years and schools to help them establish good bowel and bladder health.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £116k for the year, with total income rising to £1.07m. Unrestricted reserves stood at £352k, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of £234,520. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Godfrey Wilson Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02580579

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — ERIC (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).

• Boots Charitable Trust — “With thanks to Boots Charitable Trust for funding translations of our factsheets into languages other than English.” (source page)
• Alturix — “Thanks to Alturix we are training health professionals to support children in overcoming bedwetting. They are kindly sponsoring a workshop a…” (source page)
• Ferring — “With thanks to Ferring for sponsoring our World Bedwetting Day content and 2025 Parent Conference.” (source page)
• Ontex — “With thanks to Ontex for supporting our Helpline and Family Services.” (source page)
• Clinisupplies — “With thanks to Clinisupplies who have sponsored our complex bowel and bladder webinars in 2025.” (source page)
• Malem Medical — “With thanks to Malem Medical for supporting our Helpline and Family Services, helping us to deliver online workshops on bedwetting.” (source page)
• SC Nutra — “With thanks to SC Nutra for supporting ERIC with printing our Wee and Poo Adventure Story “When its time to go, it’s time to go!”” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• ABBOTT, Justine — director, appointed 28/01/2025on trustee list
• FLEMING, Laura — director, appointed 31/10/2023on trustee list
• WILEMAN, Alison — director, appointed 01/08/2023on trustee list
• WARREN, Zoe — director, appointed 01/08/2023on trustee list
• WESTLAKE, Jessica — director, appointed 01/08/2023on trustee list
• ROUSE, Jennifer Ruth — director, appointed 18/04/2023on trustee list
• MENAKAYA, Jideofo, Dr — director, appointed 01/02/2022not on trustee list
• THOMPSON, Wendy Angela — director, appointed 27/04/2021on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~2.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (61% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 8.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Wendy Thompsonchair
• Alison Wileman
• Dr Jideofor Menakaya · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jennifer Rouse
• Jessica Westlake
• Justine Abbott
• LAURA FLEMING
• Zoe Warren

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

Operates in: Australia · Ireland · Netherlands · New Zealand · Scotland · 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 THE ERIC WRIGHT CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE ERIC WRIGHT CHARITABLE TRUST income £308.9m
• ERMINE EDUCATION TRUST income £3.1m
• ECI SCHOOLS income £1.8m
• Association for Continence Professionals income £177k
• THE INTERNATIONAL CONTINENCE SOCIETY income £532k
• SPACE income £256k

Side by side with its peers

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