Gingerbread Family Support Limited

Registered charity 1088344 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Gingerbread Family Support, STOKE ON TRENT AND DISTRICT GINGERBREAD CENTRE LIMITED, THE GINGERBREAD CENTRE, The Stoke on Trent and District Gingerbread Centre Limited

The provision of supported accommodation for homeless vulnerable families, lone parent families, including lone mothers, fathers and teenage mothers 16 & 17 years of age, and pregnant women.Floating support in the community for vulnerable families working towards prevention, early-intervention and longer-term Tier 2 support. Floating housing support to vulnerable families.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO PROVIDE COUNSELLING, SUPPORT, ADVICE AND HELP TO THE PARENTS AND CHILDREN OF VULNERABLE FAMILIES AND SINGLE, PREGNANT WOMEN IN STOKE-ON-TRENT AND STAFFORDSHIRE AND ITS SURROUNDING DISTRICTS WHO ARE IN CONDITION OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS.

Area of benefit: STOKE ON TRENT AND THE SURROUNDING DISTRICT

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Stoke-on-Trent, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £533,711, which the trustees consider an adequate buffer against risks. The auditor confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern for at least twelve months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Geens Limited. 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
• 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
• 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 — Gingerbread Family Support (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Trevor Cottam — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Fiona Miller — Chair (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Haywoods — “organising our Padel event was something completely new for both me and Gingerbread. It was brilliant working alongside the sponsor – Haywoo…” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (68% 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: 0.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Fiona Louise MILLERchair
• Anthony McGovern
• Caine Black
• Henry James Mervyn Davies
• Jack Brereton
• Malcolm Jolliffe
• Paul Shenton
• Salima Begum Shariff

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · Shropshire · Staffordshire · Stoke-on-trent City · Telford & Wrekin

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GINGERBREAD, THE CHARITY FOR SINGLE PARENT FAMILIES.

• GINGERBREAD, THE CHARITY FOR SINGLE PARENT FAMILIES income £1.5m
• FLEDGE YOUTH SUPPORT income £871k
• HOMELESS IN TEIGNBRIDGE SUPPORT income £88k
• BOGNOR HOUSING TRUST income £376k
• THE MOORINGS TRUST income £272k
• SANDWELL HOMELESS AND RESETTLEMENT PROJECT LIMITED income £566k

Side by side with its peers

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