STRONGBONES CHILDREN'S CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1086173 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The principle activities of the charity are to provide emotional support and financial assistance for the benefit of children/young people under the age of twenty one suffering from brittle bone disease, scoliosis, spina bifida and all other skeletal conditions coupled with complex needs throughout England and Wales .We provide disability aids,equipment,activity weekends & family interaction days

Objects

TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND PRESERVE AND IMPROVE HEALTH BY: PROVIDING ESSENTIAL EQUIPMENT, EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES, RESPITE AND EMOTIONAL SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AGED 3 TO 21 WHO EXPERIENCE SEVERE MOBILITY IMPAIRMENT DUE TO BONE AND MUSCULOSKELETAL CONDITIONS. SUPPORT IS OFFERED FOR CONDITIONS INCLUDING SPINA BIFIDA, SCOLIOSIS, SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY (SMA), CEREBRAL PALSY, OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA AND MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY.

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: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Recreation · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with unrestricted funds of £137,718, an increase from £75,095 the previous year, resulting in a net income of £62,623. The trustees report that the charity maintains a reserves policy of a minimum £50,000, which is comfortably exceeded by the current unrestricted reserves. The independent examiner confirmed that the accounts give a proper understanding with no matters requiring attention.

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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04188918

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Strongbones Children's Charitable Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• BROBYN, Conor Paul Luke — director, appointed 29/06/2026on trustee list
• SKETCHLEY, Christine Louise — director, appointed 25/03/2026on trustee list
• FOSTER, Andrew Stephen — director, appointed 23/04/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 28/02/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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: 7.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/12/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/11/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW STEPHEN FOSTER
• Christine Louise Sketchley
• Conor Paul Luke Brobyn

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 CHILDREN TODAY CHARITABLE TRUST.

• CHILDREN TODAY CHARITABLE TRUST income £278k
• THE SWEETPEA CHARITABLE TRUST income £21k
• STEPPING STONES PRE-SCHOOL, LITTLEPORT income £221k
• MONDAY CHARITABLE TRUST income £4.1m
• JOAN WILKINSON CHARITABLE TRUST income £48k
• BOOST CHARITABLE TRUST income £263k

Side by side with its peers

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