RAYS OF SUNSHINE

Registered charity 1102529 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Granting wishes for seriously and terminally ill children between the ages of 3-18 throughout the United Kingdom

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a net surplus of £640,654 and total unrestricted reserves of £3,378,759. The Trustees confirm that the charity is well positioned to meet future needs, citing strong liquidity and a diversified income base. The financial position is described as strong, with no material debt obligations or pension liabilities.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BKL Audit LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04860607
• Trading subsidiary: RAYS OF SUNSHINE PROMOTIONS LIMITED Companies House 07975115

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Rays of Sunshine (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jane Sharpe — Chair (source)
• Stephen Allan OBE — Lifetime President (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).

• Arora Charitable Foundation — “Rays of Sunshine announced as one of the beneficiaries of the Arora Charitable Foundation’s 2026 Arora Ball” (source page)
• Mark Benevolent Fund — “Mark Benevolent Fund donates £19K to help Rays of Sunshine bring sensory play to children in hospitals” (source page)
• Lockton’s Charitable Trust — “In this time Lockton’s Charitable Trust donated over an incredible £262,000.” (source page)

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.

• BRETEAU, Nicolas Noel Andre — director, appointed 05/11/2025on trustee list
• SHIPMAN, Mark Mitchell — director, appointed 11/02/2025on trustee list
• ALLAN, Hayley Sara — director, appointed 22/01/2025on trustee list
• NAIDOO, Ronelle, Dr — director, appointed 16/06/2022on trustee list
• POPAT, Divyesh Vrajlal — director, appointed 30/11/2020on trustee list
• SHARPE, Jane Eddy — director, appointed 21/05/2020on trustee list
• RANDALL, Justin Scott — director, appointed 24/06/2015on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~19.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 20.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jane Sharpechair · trustee of 1 other charity
• DANIEL COLEMAN
• Divyesh Vrajlal Popat
• Dr Ronelle Naidoo
• Hayley Allan
• JUSTIN RANDALL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mark Shipman
• Nicolas Breteau

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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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 RAYS OF HOPE.

• RAYS OF HOPE income £759k
• STARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION income £4.0m
• SUNNY DAYS CHILDRENS FUND income £463k
• COPE CHILDRENS TRUST income £10.6m
• HAPPY DAYS CHILDRENS CHARITY income £1.1m
• SONSHINE CLUB income £137k

Side by side with its peers

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