WORKING FAMILIES

Registered charity 1099808 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC045339 (OSCR)

Working Families mission is to remove the barriers that people with caring responsibilities face in the workplace. We drive positive change by supporting and advocating for working parents and carers, collaborating with employers to build flexible and family-friendly cultures, and influencing government policy.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £14,652 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £1,213,420 against total expenditure of £1,198,768. Per the trustees' report, free unrestricted reserves stood at £257,091, which falls within the trustees' agreed range between the minimum threshold of £158,569 and the maximum threshold of £577,000. The independent auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 0 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Insolvency history (Companies House)

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• ‘Making work work for working families’ labourlist.org · 06/06/2026
• Two-child benefit cap is 'punishing' working families, Labour warned ahead of child poverty strategy bigissue.com · 16/09/2025
• One million children in working families to be hit by ‘devastating’ two-child benefit cap independent.co.uk · 16/09/2025
• i’s Magic Breakfast appeal: Working families during the pandemic need food banks – The i Paper inews.co.uk · 11/01/2021

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: WORKING FAMILIES TRADING LIMITED Companies House 02590219
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04727690

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.

• GARNER, Amanda Jill — director, appointed 17/07/2025on trustee list
• BELL, Anna Louise — director, appointed 17/07/2025on trustee list
• WYATT-SMITH, Laura Ann Elizabeth — director, appointed 17/07/2025on trustee list
• WHYTE, Gordon Gillies — director, appointed 05/07/2024on trustee list
• WAYNE, Charlotte — director, appointed 05/07/2024on trustee list
• DUNSON-ODUSANYA, Michael — director, appointed 12/08/2022on trustee list
• DATAR, Prajakta Prasad — director, appointed 07/07/2022on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (48% 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: 3.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/05/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amanda Jill Garner
• Anna Bell
• Charlotte Wayne
• Eric Steven Toft
• Gordon Gillies Whyte
• Laura Wyatt-Smith
• Michael Dunson-Odusanya
• Neha Kulkarni
• Prajakta Prasad Datar
• Saira Demmer

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FRG LTD.

• FRG LTD income £2.3m
• CONTACT A FAMILY income £8.8m
• CARE FOR THE FAMILY income £4.2m
• SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN income £7.2m
• FAMILIES RELIEF income £436k
• The Caring Family Foundation income £3.6m

Side by side with its peers

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