FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN TRUST

Registered charity 1093131 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN

Voluntary Adoption Agency placing children from all over the UK with families in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF CHILDREN WHO NEED PROTECTION AND CARE, AND OF THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS, FROM ALL SECTIONS OF SOCIETY, PROVIDED ALWAYS THAT IN FURTHERING THIS OBJECT THE CHARITY SHALL OPERATE IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES AS ESPOUSED BY (AMONG OTHERS) THE ANGLICAN DIOCESE OF EXETER.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE DEVON, DORSET, AND CORNWALL

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Teignbridge, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

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In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Conflicting interests
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

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)

4 annual returns are past their due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2020)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (63% 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: 2.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Nicholas Timothy Allanchair · trustee of 3 other charities
• Charmian O'Kelly
• Dr Louisiana Lush PhD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Susan Howson
• Jacqueline Kay Saunders
• Roger Lake
• Susan Phyllis Lucas
• TERENCE WILLIAM CONNOR
• Tina Gail Cook KC · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Cornwall · Devon · Dorset · Plymouth City · Somerset · Torbay

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