SURREY FAMILY & MEDIATION SERVICES

Registered charity 1091539 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SFMS, SURREY FAMILY MEDIATION SERVICE

Provision of family mediation to couples going through separations and divorce (marriage or civil partnership). Full range of mediation reaching agreement in all issues such as those relating to children, finance and property. Our mediation practices place importance on the needs of the child delivering child consultations and special conflict resolutions such as special guardianship orders.

Objects

1. TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO ALLEVIATE THE HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS CAUSED BY THE BREAKING UP OF RELATIONSHIPS, MARRIAGE AND FAMILY, INCLUDING SEPARATING AND/OR DIVORCING COUPLES TO RESOLVE DISPUTES AROUND CHILDREN, PROPERTY, FINANCE AND ALL ISSUES ARISING FROM FAMILY STRESS. 2. TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO BOTH PARENTS AND CHILDREN IN COMING TO TERMS WITH THE CHANGES IN THEIR LIVES WHICH COME ABOUT AS A RESULT OF DIVORCE AND SEPARATION INCLUDING DIRECT CONSULTATION WITH CHILDREN AND OTHER SERVICES.

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.

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Registered contact address: Mole Valley, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a net liability of £23,909, a deterioration from the previous year's surplus, driven by a £39,733 deficit and a £49,914 provision for Legal Aid recoupment. The trustees note that the charity remains reliant on grant funding and has faced ongoing monthly losses, though they expect modest profits going forward following a restructuring that eliminated the Director role. Reserves were reported to meet the minimum policy target of covering insolvency costs plus 12 weeks of operating costs as of February 2025.

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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 25/03/2024, 54 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 24/03/2023, 52 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04363273

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.

• BAKER, Karen Donna — director, appointed 06/10/2026not on trustee list
• HUSSAIN, Haleema — director, appointed 02/06/2026on trustee list
• HEDGES-GRIMSHAW, Catherine Emma-Louise — director, appointed 01/02/2024on trustee list
• OLSEN, Jane Clare — director, appointed 12/02/2021on trustee list
• PREEDY, Nicholas Francis — director, appointed 29/06/2015on trustee list
• REMNANT, Tamsin — secretary, appointed 01/07/2023

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Nicholas Francis Preedychair
• Catherine Hedges-Grimshaw
• Haleema Hussain
• Karen Baker

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

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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 Surrey Counselling and Mediation.

• Surrey Counselling and Mediation income £332k
• MEDIATION SURREY CIO income £217k
• The Family Mediation Trust income £395k
• MID MEDIATION AND COUNSELLING LTD income £200k
• FAMILY MEDIATION CYMRU income £278k
• NORTH SURREY COMMUNITY COUNSELLING PARTNERSHIP income £176k

Side by side with its peers

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