FearFree Charity
Registered charity 1064764 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FearFree, FearLess, FearLess Charity, SPLITZ, SPLITZ SUPPORT SERVICE
Support to families and individuals who have experienced separation, divorce or domestic abuse or who have associated needs.
Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity delivered a net gain of £274,014 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted funds of £282,573. The trustees consider the minimum level of free reserves to be £250,000, and the charity held free reserves of £246,000, which is below this stated policy target. The auditor 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
Reserves policy: £250k (held: £246k)
“The trustees consider the minimum level of free reserves to be £250k”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Burton Sweet Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.
Year-over-year changes
- Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 0 (FY2025).
Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.
In the news
Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — FearFree (matched by registered charity number).
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Maureen Margie — Chair of Trustees (source)
Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£234k
Reported reserves equal ~0.6 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 (69% 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: 4.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (21/10/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Maureen Margriechair
- Adrian Long
- Clare Fielden
- Joanna Kitching
- Mark Smith
- Nigel Peter Stevens
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Bristol City · Devon · Gloucestershire · Somerset · Wiltshire
Income and spending
Common questions
Is FearFree Charity financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity delivered a net gain of £274,014 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted funds of £282,573. The trustees consider the minimum level of free reserves to be £250,000, and the charity held free reserves of £246,000, which is below this stated policy target. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Burton Sweet Limited.
Who funds FearFree Charity?
Funders whose own accounts filings name FearFree Charity as a grant recipient include ARMED FORCES COVENANT FUND, EXETER CHIEFS FOUNDATION, THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST. MARY WITH ST. PETER & ST. JUDE, WEST BROMPTON, THE ELIZABETH AND PRINCE ZAIGER TRUST, ST. JAMES TRUST.
Known funders
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Government & lottery funding
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