ORMISTON FAMILIES

Registered charity 1015716 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ORMISTON CHARITABLE TRUST, ORMISTON CHILDREN AND FAMILIES TRUST

Ormiston Families supports children, young people and their families to manage the challenges they face and improve their life chances. We run four core programmes across the East of England supporting young children, prisoners families, school students and local communities

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a small surplus of £57k for the year, restoring free reserves to £1,148k, which is slightly above the upper end of the trustees' stated policy range of £700k to £1,100k. The trustees have approved a deficit budget for the following year to reduce reserves back within policy levels while maintaining service capacity. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by SUMER AUDITCO LTD. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £110,001 - £120,000 (FY2024) to £90,001 - £100,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Ormiston Families (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).

• Annie Tranmer Charitable Trust — “Thank you to all our partners and funders for 2024/25. Annie Tranmer Charitable Trust” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 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 ~1.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (88% 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: 7.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (20/01/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/07/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DEREK MARK HEASMAN · trustee of 2 other charities
• Diana Mary Murray
• Gail Elizabeth Tolley
• Gary Peverley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jessica Lauren Godfrey-Withey
• MIRANDA ELIZABETH KENDALL
• PETER MURRAY OBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Philip Brian Richards
• Stephen Raymond West
• Sultan Taylor

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

Operates in: Bedford · Cambridgeshire · Central Bedfordshire · Essex · Hertfordshire · Norfolk · Peterborough City · Suffolk · Thurrock

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• PETER MURRAY OBE — trustee here and at THE ORMISTON TRUST

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 ORMISTON TRUST.

• THE ORMISTON TRUST income £436.9m
• FIVE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES TRUST LTD income £2.3m
• THE CHILDREN'S FAMILY TRUST income £9.7m
• FAMILIES RELIEF income £436k
• FRG LTD income £2.3m
• CORAM FAMILY AND CHILDCARE LTD income £438k

Side by side with its peers

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