HAPPY DAYS CHILDRENS CHARITY

Registered charity 1010943 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HAPPY DAYS, HAPPY DAYS (CARING FOR LIFE) LTD

Holidays and Leisuretime activity for children with special needs across the whole uk

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £80,283 for the year ended 31 March 2025, reversing a deficit from the previous year. The trustees report that reserves now stand at 6 months of expenditure, which they consider sufficient to continue activity. The charity remains dependent on fundraising from the general public and business sector, as it does not receive local government grants.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bradshaw Johnson. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Happy Days Childrens Charity (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 12.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/03/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DIANE MAYchair
• BERNICE GILLIAN RUSSELL
• Joseph Christopher Selmes
• Liam Joseph Meenan
• RACHEL REES

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 HAPPY CHILDREN LTD.

• HAPPY CHILDREN LTD income £465k
• CENTRAL CHESHIRE BUDDY SCHEME income £141k
• CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS FOUNDATION income £214k
• RAYS OF HOPE income £759k
• CHILDREN HEARD AND SEEN income £579k
• SUNNY DAYS CHILDRENS FUND income £463k

Side by side with its peers

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