Go Beyond Charity

Registered charity 1080953 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHICKS, COUNTRY HOLIDAYS FOR INNER CITY KIDS, Go Beyond, Go Beyond (Formerly CHICKS), THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY

PROVIDING FREE RESPITE BREAKS FOR DISADVANTAGED AND UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILDREN FROM ACROSS THE UK AGED BETWEEN 8 AND 13

Objects

The relief of young people in poverty or financial hardship or who are otherwise socially or socially and economically disadvantaged and in particular (but without limitation) by the provision of respite breaks, holidays and residential and non-residential courses to such young people who would not otherwise have a holiday or such education opportunities.

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided document contains no financial data, narrative, or accounting statements; it consists solely of repeated Docusign envelope identifiers and a date. Consequently, no assessment of financial health can be derived from the text.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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 — Go Beyond (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Michele Farmer — CEO (source)
• Sue Cole — Chief Operating Officer (source)
• Sara Shearman — Director of Fundraising and Communications (source)
• Carl Wholey — Operations Director (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~17.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 15.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/02/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anisha Reed
• Barbara Peacock
• David James George
• Dawn George
• Kofi Awusi Mills-Bampoe
• Norman Martin Waller · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sally Marie Carruthers Yeomans
• Sharon Scully
• Simon Boss

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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Side by side with its peers

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