SEND AND YOU

Registered charity 1079761 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SEND & YOU, SUPPORTIVE PARENTS, SUPPORTIVE PARENTS FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN

SEND AND YOU provides the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Information, Advice and Support Service (SENDIAS) for Bristol North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. We provide free confidential and impartial advice to children, young people and their parents about SEND to form an effective partnership with others to ensure maximum educational benefit.

Objects

To promote the education of children and young people who have special educational needs and/or a disability (SEND), particularly by providing a SEND information, advice and support service for children, young people and their parents.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE IN BRISTOL, SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE, NORTH SOMERSET AND BATH AND NORTH EAST SOMERSET

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 accounts state that the charity ended the year with a net surplus of £26,628 and unrestricted reserves of £80,138. However, the trustees note that the charity carries an unfunded overspend on its commissioned SENDIASS services and expects to use reserves to cover this loss in the coming year. The charity's going concern status is dependent on the future flow of uncertain funding streams from local authorities and donors.

Automated summary of the FY2025 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
• 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Bahareh Vahabi
• Clive Osborne
• Conor Lockley
• Heidi Roberts
• Michael Lane
• Michael Tidley
• Nicholas Forbes
• Nichole Prescott
• Rona Chellew
• Russell Gregory
• Victoria Place

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

Operates in: Bristol City · North Somerset · South Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.