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

Objects

TO HELP AND EDUCATE YOUNG PERSONS THROUGH THEIR LEISURE-TIME AND HOLIDAY ACTIVITIES.

Area of benefit: IN PRACTICE UNITED KINGDOM

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 · 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 FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £31,763 for the year ended 31 March 2026, resulting in unrestricted funds of £125,996. The trustees note that reserves now stand at 5 months of expenditure, which they consider sufficient to continue activities, although the charity is solely dependent on its own fundraising and does not receive local government grants.

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

What the accounts disclose

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

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2025) to "below" (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed by this site.

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.

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 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~1.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 12.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (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

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 HAPPY CHILDREN LTD.

• HAPPY CHILDREN LTD income £465k
• SUNNY DAYS CHILDRENS FUND income £463k
• HAPPY KIDS income £234k
• FUN 4 KIDZ income £1.2m
• HAPPY DAYS PRE-SCHOOL income £108k
• THE CHILDRENS HOLIDAY FOUNDATION NORTH DEVON income £50k

Side by side with its peers

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