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.

Objects

TO HELP BOTH SERIOUSLY ILL AND TERMINALLY ILL CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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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Registered contact address: Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported total incoming resources of £326,765 and net income for the year of £68,961, resulting in unrestricted fund balances of £323,091. The trustees' report indicates that reserves of £232,091 were carried forward to fund future dreams, with a stated policy of maintaining capital adequacy. The independent examiner reported no matters requiring attention, confirming the accounts accord with accounting records.

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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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 — 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

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Charities like this

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

• DREAM MAKERS income £129k
• ACHIEVED DREAMS income £126k
• THE DROMINTEE TRUST income £717k
• DREAMS AND WISHES income £632k
• FUTURE DREAMS TRUST LIMITED income £2.1m
• Dream Centre Wales income £78k

Side by side with its peers

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