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.

Objects

The relief of sickness and the promotion of health among children and young people with bladder and/or bowel conditions, and/or toilet training challenges. The protection and preservation of the environment for the public benefit by the promotion of waste reduction, re-use and the use of surplus continence products, including but not limited to nappy products and wipes.

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: South Gloucestershire, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity ended the year with unrestricted reserves of £224,639, which is below the stated policy target of £234,520, largely due to legal costs incurred to resolve a historic intellectual property issue. Despite a net expenditure for the year, the charity maintains adequate resources to continue in operational existence, as confirmed by the trustees on a going concern basis. The organization is actively developing self-generated income streams, which now constitute 59.4% of total income, to improve financial resilience.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 15/04/2024, 75 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02580579 · Financial health read from its filings

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

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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 EDUCATION POLICY INSTITUTE.

• EDUCATION POLICY INSTITUTE income £1.4m
• ENRYCH income £1.4m
• AIM income £628k
• THE ERIC WRIGHT CHARITABLE TRUST income £314.8m
• CAREDUCATION TRUST LTD income £133k
• THE THREE ELLS TRUST income £48k

Side by side with its peers

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