SOUTHSIDE FAMILY PROJECT

Registered charity 1069637 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Southside supports individuals and families affected by intergenerational abuse, neglect and trauma. We provide long-term therapeutic support, home-based parenting support, therapeutic play, domestic abuse advocacy, counselling, community groups and peer support. We partner with other agencies to improve the response to people with complex needs.

Objects

TO PROVIDE THE RELIEF OF SUFFERING AND DISTRESS FOR THOSE PERSONS WHO HAVE BEEN VICTIMS OF RAPE/CHILD ABUSE, OR ANY OTHER FORMS OF ABUSE OR DEPRIVATION BY THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING, ADVICE AND SUPPORT SERVICES AND ALSO RAISING PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THEIR NEEDS

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bath and North East Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a net expenditure of £9,412 for the year ended 31 March 2026, resulting in total funds of £314,106. Free reserves stood at £246,043, which the trustees note is ahead of the minimum policy target of £181,000. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis, with trustees noting that approximately 50% of income is secured in contracts until March 2028.

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.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2025) → no going-concern doubt (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
• 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~4.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (81% 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: 1.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JILL OLDHAMchair
• Allison Todd
• Bruce Elliott Laurence
• David Hobdey
• Dr HELEN PAULI
• Emma Ingrey-Counter
• Gemma Louise Haines
• George Eric Alexander Samios
• SARAH JANE HAMBLIN · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset

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 SOUTHSIDE PARTNERSHIP.

• SOUTHSIDE PARTNERSHIP income £19.4m
• SOUTHERN DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICE income £10.0m
• SAFETY WELLBEING AND CHALLENGING ABUSE income £1.1m
• THE SOUTHMEAD PROJECT income £414k
• SOUTHSIDE REHABILITATION LIMITED income £374k
• SOUTH LIVERPOOL DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES income £311k

Side by side with its peers

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