BLISS -THE NATIONAL CHARITY FOR THE NEWBORN

Registered charity 1002973 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q4926843 · Wikipedia · also known as B L I S S, BABY LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS, BLISS THE NATIONAL CHARITY FOR THE NEWBORN, BLISS THE PREMATURE BABY CHARITY

- Provision of information, practical and emotional support to parents and families of premature and sick babies- Programmes and training for health professionals to improve family centred care- Funding and championing clinical research- Campaigning for change within government and the NHS- Raising awareness of issues that affect premature and sick babies and their families

Objects

TO SUPPORT THE LIFE OF BABIES IN DISTRESS AT OR IN THE PERIOD PRIOR TO BIRTH OR BORN PREMATURELY OR SICK TO INCREASE THE LIKELIHOOD OF THEIR SURVIVAL AND TO ENSURE THAT SUCH BABIES HAVE THE BEST QUALITY OF LIFE POSSIBLE.

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: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Southwark, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that Bliss ended the financial year with a net surplus of £41k and total unrestricted reserves of £721k, which sits above its stated policy target range of £590k to £653k. The charity reports a solid financial position, having successfully reduced its cost of fundraising ratio to 47p in every pound raised, while maintaining adequate liquidity to meet obligations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Investment
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02609219
• Trading subsidiary: BLISS SALES LIMITED Companies House 03602721

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Bliss (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• DEVLIN, Ciara Veronica — director, appointed 03/06/2026on trustee list
• SUTHAR, Krupa — director, appointed 22/10/2025on trustee list
• MORLEY, Ian Douglas — director, appointed 22/10/2025on trustee list
• GAIR, Alice — director, appointed 22/10/2025on trustee list
• BRYANT, Louise — director, appointed 22/10/2025on trustee list
• SMITH, Coralina — director, appointed 10/10/2023on trustee list
• CHATTAIKA, Faith-Rose — director, appointed 10/10/2023on trustee list
• PETER, Michelle, Dr — director, appointed 10/10/2023on trustee list
• WITTERIDGE, Charlotte Jane — director, appointed 10/12/2020on trustee list
• JAMES, Neil Anthony — director, appointed 10/12/2020on trustee list
• PAIZE, Fauzia — director, appointed 09/10/2019on trustee list
• CALDER, John Robert — director, appointed 04/10/2017not on trustee list
• CAMPBELL, Laura Elizabeth — secretary, appointed 13/08/2026

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (64% 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: 47.4% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alice Gair
• Charlotte Witteridge
• Ciara Devlin · trustee of 1 other charity
• Coralina Smith
• Dr Michelle Peter
• Faith-Rose Chattaika
• Fauzia Paize
• Ian Morley
• Krupa Suthar
• Louise Bryant
• PROFESSOR FIONA MARY ROSS

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · 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 BLISS FAMILY CHARITY.

• BLISS FAMILY CHARITY income £235k
• BLOSS FAMILY FOUNDATION income £33k
• BLESS COMMUNITY SUPPORT income £167k
• BABY BLUES APPEAL income £65k
• THE BLISS TRUST income £36k
• BECOMING FAMILIES income £77k

Side by side with its peers

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