SPURGEONS

Registered charity 1081182 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SPURGEON'S CHILD CARE

We currently deliver more than 50 high-quality services to find long-lasting solutions to the challenges faced by many across the UK - including poverty, abuse problems, offending and other social issues. By partnering with local authorities, supporters and other funding bodies, we come alongside children and their families to help them to work together to find long-lasting solutions.

Objects

THE CHARITY’S OBJECT, WHICH IS CARRIED OUT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CHARITY’S CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION AND HISTORY AND IS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IS TO ADVANCE IN LIFE AND HELP CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS WHO ARE IN NEED OF CARE AND PROTECTION, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION, SUPPORT SERVICES, SOCIAL CARE, MAINTENANCE, VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE.

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 · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: North Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income grew by 4% to £12.6M, while expenditure reduced by 11% to £13.5M, resulting in a net decrease in funds of £1.3M. The charity holds general unrestricted reserves of £5.7M, which the trustees confirm are sufficient to meet their stated free reserves target of £4.7M. The filing asserts that the charity is in a strong financial position with no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education); Care Quality Commission. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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 — Spurgeons Children's Charity (matched by registered charity number).

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 8.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (27/06/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (31/01/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Michael Victor Rebeirochair
• Berry Leeder
• Carol Payne
• David Buchan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Deborah Anne Clinton
• Dr Marie Astrid Janson Jones
• Julius Kirumira
• Robert Clarke · trustee of 1 other charity
• Temilola Salimon
• Terry Roberts

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

Operates in: 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).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SPURGEONS COLLEGE.

• SPURGEONS COLLEGE income £1.1m
• THE SPARKLE FOUNDATION income £924k
• PENHALIGON'S FRIENDS income £311k
• SPARKLE SHEFFIELD income £59k
• FOUNDATIONS: SUPPORTING FAMILIES income £336k
• SUFFOLK REFUGEE SUPPORT income £769k

Side by side with its peers

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