NATIONAL FAMILY MEDIATION

Registered charity 1074796 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NFM

National family Mediation (NFM) offers high quality family mediation and support services to all families affected by relationship breakdown, divorce or separation in England and Wales. Mediators help families reach joint decisions about all the issues associated with divorce and separation. NFM provides services in over 500 locations across England and Wales.

Objects

TO PROMOTE SUCH OBJECTS AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES FROM TIME TO TIME AND IN PARTICULAR (WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY) FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO:-1) ALLEVIATE HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS CAUSED BY THE BREAK UP OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY OR BY FAMILIES IN DISPUTE OR DIFFICULTY; AND,2) TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH, BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL, OF ADULTS AND CHILDRENINVOLVED IN THE BREAK UP OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY OR FAMILY DISPUTES OR DIFFICULTIES; AND,3) TO PROMOTE AND CO-ORDINATE SERVICES TO BE PROVIDED FOR SUCH PURPOSES BY MEMBERS; AND,4) TO PROMOTE EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR THOSE INVOLVED IN PROVIDING MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION SERVICES; AND,5) TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE THROUGH MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION SERVICES OR COUPLES WHOSERELATIONSHIPS APPEAR TO BE BREAKING DOWN OR WHO ARE OTHERWISE IN DISPUTE OR DIFFICULTY; AND,6) WHERE SUCH RELATIONSHIPS HAVE ALREADY BROKEN DOWN, TO ADVISE AND HELP IN THE SETTLEMENT OF DIFFERENCES OR POTENTIAL DIFFERENCES OVER ASSOCIATED MATTERS SUCH AS THE RESIDENCE OF AND CONTACT WITH CHILDREN AND FINANCIAL MATTERS ("THE OBJECTS").7) TO ADVOCATE, PROMOTE AND CO-ORDINATE SERVICES AND PROVIDE SUPPORT TO NOT FOR PROFITMEDIATION AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION SERVICES WORKING IN OTHER FIELDS OF MEDIATION OR DISPUTE RESOLUTION.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £219,481 for the year, increasing its unrestricted reserves to £870,460. This position places the charity in line with its stated reserves policy of maintaining three to six months of operating costs. The accounts confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue operating for at least twelve months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Griffin. Discloses 4 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03721723

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — National Family Mediation (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• SCOWEN, Alison Louise Margaret — director, appointed 29/07/2026on trustee list
• AUTON, Frank David — director, appointed 11/01/2024on trustee list
• LEECH, James Andrew — director, appointed 25/01/2022on trustee list
• REAY, Carol Lindsay — director, appointed 01/09/2020on trustee list
• WILSON, Oliver Thomas — director, appointed 01/09/2020on trustee list
• CURTIS, Julian Richard Alan — director, appointed 30/04/2020on trustee list
• TUCKEY, Anne Lorraine — director, appointed 13/11/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~9.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carol Lindsay Reaychair
• Alison Louise Margaret Scowen
• Anne Lorraine Tuckey
• Frank Auton
• James Leech
• Julian Curtis
• Julian Curtis
• Oliver Thomas Wilson

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SURREY FAMILY & MEDIATION SERVICES.

• SURREY FAMILY & MEDIATION SERVICES income £124k
• TALK FIRST income £193k
• The Relationships Counselling, Therapy and Mediation Service income £1.1m
• The Family & Relationship Centre income £765k
• CALM MEDIATION income £589k
• ADFAM NATIONAL income £861k

Side by side with its peers

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