FAMILY MATTERS YORK

Registered charity 1088274 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FMY, YORK COMMUNITY FAMILY TRUST

Our aim is to equip adults (parents and couples) in York with relationship skills to empower them to make better relationship decisions. We provide courses, mentoring, events and materials.

Objects

THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE TRUST FUND AND ITS INCOME UPON TRUST TO APPLY THEM FOR THE FOLLOWING OBJECTS IN YORK AND THE SURROUNDING AREA FOR THE BENEFIT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN MATTERS CONCERNING MARRIAGE, PARENTING, FAMILY LIFE AND RELATIONSHIPS WITH A VIEW TO STRENGTHENING AND ENRICHING FAMILY LIFE, AND THE DOING OF ALL SUCH THINGS, BEING CHARITABLE IN LAW, AS ARE INCIDENTAL OR CONDUCIVE TO THE ATTAINMENT OF THESE OBJECTS

Area of benefit: YORK AND SURROUNDING AREA

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: York, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reports unrestricted reserves of £41,045, which the trustees state were maintained at least to their policy target of three months' unrestricted expenditure. Total income for the year was £59,499, primarily from grants, while total expenditure was £54,192, resulting in a net surplus. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention regarding the accounts.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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.

• 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• 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
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 01/03/2023, 29 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Linsay Cunningham
• JILL ROSS RGN BA
• Joanna Bloss
• Ruth Margaret Dunlop FCIPD · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: City Of York

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COMMUNITY MATTERS (YORKSHIRE).

• COMMUNITY MATTERS (YORKSHIRE) income £144k
• FAMILY MATTERS income £1.4m
• FAMILIES MATTER AT HURC income £94k
• YORK CARES income £326k
• Friends of York House income £50k
• The Family Mediation Trust income £395k

Side by side with its peers

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