CHANGING FACES

Registered charity 1011222 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5072014 · Wikipedia · also registered in Scotland as SC039725 (OSCR)

Changing Faces supports and represents people of all ages with disfigurements from any cause.

Objects

1) TO HELP THOSE WHO SUFFER FROM FACIAL OR OTHER PHYSICAL DISFIGUREMENT TO OVERCOME SOCIAL, PHYSICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, EMOTIONAL DISADVANTAGE BY WAY OF COUNSELLING AND TRAINING IN SOCIAL SKILLS. 2) TO PROMOTE KNOWLEDGE OF THE SPECIAL PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH DISFIGUREMENT THROUGH ALL TYPES OF EDUCATIONAL MEDIUM. 3) TO PROVIDE TRAINING AND ASSISTANCE TO THOSE WHO ARE IN CONTACT WITH DISFIGURED PEOPLE WHETHER SOCIALLY AS RELATIVES OR FRIENDS OR AT WORK OR IN THE COURSE OF SPECIFIC PROFESSIONAL CONTACT OR HEALTH CARE SUPPORT GENERALLY.

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 · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sheffield, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a small operating surplus of £68,101 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £1,312,021 and total expenditure of £1,243,920. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £309,049, which is below the stated policy target of six months of unrestricted operational expenditure (calculated at just under £370,000). The trustees note that while the financial position is stable, the external environment remains difficult, requiring cautious monitoring to ensure reserves return to the target level.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Godfrey Wilson Limited. Discloses 5 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.

In the news

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

• Changing Faces: New Heads countryandtownhouse.com · 03/06/2023
• Who’s Moving: Mayhew, Changing Faces, Lifeworks and more civilsociety.co.uk · 22/08/2022
• Changing Faces artsprofessional.co.uk · 06/05/2001

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

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (53% 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: 25.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Helen Kate Prykechair
• Amit Sheth
• Caroline Louise Clarke
• Dr Simon van Eeden
• Elissa Holme
• Monica Gizzi
• Nicholas Lee
• Tiwonge Cohn
• Vikas Acharya

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

Operates in: Isle Of Man · 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 FACE EQUALITY INTERNATIONAL.

• FACE EQUALITY INTERNATIONAL income £469k
• THE FACE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £65k
• THE CHANGELING THEATRE COMPANY income £105k
• PUBLISH WHAT YOU FUND income £781k
• FACE FRONT INCLUSIVE THEATRE LIMITED income £320k
• CHANGING FUTURES NORTH EAST income £1.9m

Side by side with its peers

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