COMMUNITY FOSTER CARE

Registered charity 1084124 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Providing foster care for children who cannot live with their birth families. This entails supporting, supervising, managing and training foster carers to care for children effectively and providing a strong support team who can ensure that children's life chances and choices are enhanced.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the filing is prepared in accordance with the special provisions of Section 415A of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small entities. The independent auditors have expressed willingness to continue in office, indicating no immediate concerns regarding the audit engagement.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Byrd Link Audit & Accountancy Services Limited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03719101 · Financial health read from its filings

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mark — CEO (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.

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.

• MCLAUGHLIN, Hugh, Professor — director, appointed 13/03/2025on trustee list
• BARD, Anne — director, appointed 13/03/2025on trustee list
• SHOKAR, Bahdar — director, appointed 13/03/2025not on trustee list
• HAYDOCK, David — director, appointed 13/03/2025on trustee list
• COMERFORD, Jane — director, appointed 31/03/2022on trustee list
• MALONE, Stephenie — director, appointed 19/07/2019not on trustee list
• DWIGHT, Jennifer Ann — director, appointed 30/07/2015on trustee list
• STRATON, Mariana — director, appointed 27/07/2011on trustee list
• DWIGHT, Jennie — secretary, appointed 01/04/2017

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.6 months of spending — below 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).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/02/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jennifer Ann Dwightchair
• Anne Bard · trustee of 1 other charity
• Bahdar Skokar
• David Haydock · trustee of 1 other charity
• Hugh McLaughlin
• Jane Comerford
• Mariana Straton
• stephanie Malone

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

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 THE SUPPORTED FOSTERING SERVICES CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE SUPPORTED FOSTERING SERVICES CHARITABLE TRUST income £2.3m
• ST GEORGE'S COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S PROJECT LIMITED income £1.9m
• THE ADOLESCENT AND CHILDREN'S TRUST income £27.8m
• CARITAS CARE LIMITED income £8.3m
• LIFELINE COMMUNITY PROJECTS income £3.5m
• MEADOW BROOK PLAYCARE income £484k

Side by side with its peers

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