PROMISE DREAMS

Registered charity 1086020 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Helping to make dreams come true for seriously and terminally ill children and their families.

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Latest income

£237k

Latest spending

£209k

Registered

2001

Accounts read

FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £254,130 at the end of the year, with a stated policy to maintain capital adequacy allocated in reserves. The charity reported a net income of £27,363 for the year, funded by voluntary income and charitable activities, while operating with a small staff team and no trustee remuneration.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: capital adequacy allocated in reserves (held: £254k)

“The board's policy is to have capital adequacy allocated in reserves.” — page 7

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Promise Dreams (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

Received assets from another charity (07/10/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

JOHN DONOVAN
John Joseph William Donnelly
STEPHEN CHARLES WALKER

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2024	£237k	£209k
31/12/2023	£220k	£242k
31/12/2022	£202k	£131k
31/12/2021	£208k	£117k
31/12/2020	£104k	£104k

Common questions

Is PROMISE DREAMS financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £254,130 at the end of the year, with a stated policy to maintain capital adequacy allocated in reserves. The charity reported a net income of £27,363 for the year, funded by voluntary income and charitable activities, while operating with a small staff team and no trustee remuneration. Its FY2024 accounts were independently examined.

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE PENNIES FOUNDATION	2	£376k
THE JOHN R. MURRAY CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£10k
THE SIR JAMES ROLL CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£4k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST. PETER, FORMBY	1	—
THE PEARS FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£1.1m
GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' FOUNDATION	1	£500k
THE HEALTH FOUNDATION	1	£400k
THE THOMPSON FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£170k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DREAM MAKERS.

DREAM MAKERS income £129k
FUTURE DREAMS TRUST LIMITED income £2.1m
DREAMS COME TRUE CHARITY income £1.3m
DOWNRIGHT EXCELLENT income £224k
ACHIEVED DREAMS income £126k
OUR KIDS income £19.3m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
PROMISE DREAMS	£237k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
DREAM MAKERS FY2025	£129k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
FUTURE DREAMS TRUST LIMITED FY2024	£2.1m	—	—	within	—	no doubt
DREAMS COME TRUE CHARITY FY2025	£1.3m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
DOWNRIGHT EXCELLENT FY2025	£224k	—	0	below	—	no doubt
ACHIEVED DREAMS FY2025	£126k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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