THE CHALLENGING BEHAVIOUR FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1060714 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CBF, THE CBF

To demonstrate that children and adults with severe learning disabilities whose behaviour is described as challenging can enjoy normal life opportunities when their behaviour is properly understood and appropriately supported, and to support parents and carers through education and information to enable this to happen.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE SUFFERING AND DISTRESS OF PERSONS WITH SEVERE LEARNING DIFFICULTIES AND CHALLENGING BEHAVIOUR AND THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS: CHALLENGING BEHAVIOUR - BEHAVIOUR OF SUCH INTENSITY, FREQUENCY OR DURATION THAT THE PHYSICAL SAFTEY OF THE PERSON, OR OTHERS, IS LIKELY TO BE PLACED IN SERIOUS JEOPARDY, OR BEHAVIOUR WHICH WILL LIMIT OR DENY ACCESS TO THE COMMUNITY OR IMPAIR A CHILD'S GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

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: Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Medway, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a net expenditure of £176,151 for the year, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted general funds to £279,757. This level of reserves represents approximately 2.4 months of running costs, which is well below the trustees' stated policy target of six months of running costs plus closure costs. The trustees anticipate significant improvement in the financial position next year as a new fundraising plan takes effect and following the securing of a major £2.2 million grant.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• 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.

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

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/01/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (73% 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: 4.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/11/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr David Gerwyn Allenchair
• Alexander Paul Rook
• CLARE JOSEPHINE MILLION
• Dr Nicholas Henry Manktelow
• Justin Nathan Hunt
• Karen Anne Jankulak
• Kathleen A Sanger

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

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CHALLENGER TRUST.

• THE CHALLENGER TRUST income £50k
• CHALLENGING MND income £503k
• POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR SUPPORT FOR LEARNING CIO income £1.2m
• THE HUBB FOUNDATION income £1.5m
• TRANSFORMING LIVES income £62k
• MOVING ON WITH LIFE & LEARNING LTD income £409k

Side by side with its peers

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