BECOME CHARITY

Registered charity 1010518 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BECOME, THE "WHO CARES?" TRUST

We work to improve the lives and life chances of young people in care & care leavers. We inform and support them via our publications and learning & skills workshops; we influence policy & practice by ensuring their views and experiences are heard; we provide support materials for foster carers and others responsible for their welfare & education and we develop innovative projects & best practice.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE CARE, UPBRINGING AND ESTABLISHMENT IN LIFE OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE OR HAVE BEEN LOOKED AFTER OR ASSISTED BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES OR OTHER PUBLIC OR CHARITABLE BODIES CHARGED WITH THE CARE & UPBRINGING OF CHILDREN OR WHO ARE OR HAVE BEEN IN THE CARE OF FOSTER OR ADOPTIVE PARENTS.

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: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £94,769 for the year, with total reserves of £1,127,499. The trustees report that unrestricted free reserves of £912,282 are significantly above the stated policy target range of £359,713 to £539,569, primarily due to unrestricted grant income received late in the year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Haines Watts Swindon Limited. 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Top Torquay pub blighted by noise complaints will become charity shop devonlive.com · 30/11/2020
• Street League CEO steps down to become charity impact consultant civilsociety.co.uk · 15/01/2019

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Become (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).

• Mace — “We’re proud of our major 5-year partnership with Mace . They’re raising a massive £1,000,000 for us through donations and staff fundraising.” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (55% 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: 23.8% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/06/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amanda Gethin
• Elisa Jenkins
• Frances Lang · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kelly Railton
• Leslie Ann Morphy
• Marvin Joseph Campbell-Sharma
• Ony Chima
• Phillipa Uden
• Thomas Turcan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Timothy Aldridge
• Tom Willetts

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 THE OPENWORK FOUNDATION.

• THE OPENWORK FOUNDATION income £1.2m
• FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE income £1.5m
• BECOMING FAMILIES income £77k
• ACTIVITEENS income £144k
• CAREDUCATION TRUST LTD income £133k
• CHARITYWORKS income £443k

Side by side with its peers

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