OXFORD PARENT-INFANT PROJECT

Registered charity 1109956 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as OXPIP

OXPIP offers intensive therapeutic help to parents and their babies in Oxfordshire and surrounding areas in the first two years. We support families by working with parents and infant together, to build on the positive, to boost parental confidence, and help the parents be led by the needs of the baby. We know that OXPIP's unique approach can, and does help.

Objects

1.1 to promote and preserve the health and well-being of babies, young children and their parents, including parents to be, who may be experiencing stress or facing problems within the normal range of parenting;1.2 to promote and advance an understanding of infant mental health and early child development within the broad framework of Object Relations and Attachment Theories and to provide a focus for this approach in the Charity’s Area;1.3 to promote by training and research the awareness of the importance of early childhood development among health professionals and other professionals involved in early childhood and actively to disseminate information and examples of best practice among these groups.

Area of benefit: IN THE CHARITY'S AREA, IN PRACTICE OXFORDSHIRE.

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

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

Latest income
£632k
Latest spending
£591k
Registered
2005
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased by 13% to £632,409, driven by a 33% rise in income from charitable activities. The charity reports a healthy financial position with unrestricted reserves of £115,992, though this is below the trustees' stated policy target of £150,000.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: Charitable activities (92% of income)
“Total income from OXPIP’s charitable activities (including training) was £582,843” — page 30
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: three months of expenditure (reserves figure: £116k)
“the Trustees believe target reserves should be £150,000 representing three months of expenditure.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

  • Government income: £111,302 — contracts £111,302 (3); 18% of the £632,409 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

  • Government income: £126,294 — contracts £126,294 (3); 23% of the £557,770 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

  • Volunteers: 3

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — OXPIP (Oxford Parent-Infant Project) (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

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.

Official officers record.

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

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

Total income
£632k
Total spending
£591k
Cost of raising funds
£35k
Reserves (reported)
£128k
Employees
19

Reported reserves equal ~2.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% 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: 5.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£632k£591k
31/03/2024£558k£571k
31/03/2023£510k£509k
31/03/2022£373k£378k
31/03/2021£330k£336k

Common questions

Is OXFORD PARENT-INFANT PROJECT financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that total income increased by 13% to £632,409, driven by a 33% rise in income from charitable activities. The charity reports a healthy financial position with unrestricted reserves of £115,992, though this is below the trustees' stated policy target of £150,000. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds OXFORD PARENT-INFANT PROJECT?

Funders whose own accounts filings name OXFORD PARENT-INFANT PROJECT as a grant recipient include THE FORTE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, M AND C TRUST, ST ALDATES PAROCHIAL CHARITY.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE FORTE CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONFY2021£44k45% of salary for a family support worker over 3-years at a community centre in Muirhouse, North Edinburgh.
M AND C TRUSTFY2024£9k
M AND C TRUSTFY2025£3k
ST ALDATES PAROCHIAL CHARITYFY2021£2k

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund22/11/2021£494kOXPIP Reaching Communities
The National Lottery Community Fund01/03/2021£50kOXPIP Covid-19 Project Continuation
The National Lottery Community Fund18/06/2020£99kOXPIP COVID-19 response
The National Lottery Community Fund24/01/2019£10kOXPIP Community Projects Programme

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HOME-START OXFORD.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
OXFORD PARENT-INFANT PROJECT£632k—0unclear—no doubt
HOME-START OXFORD FY2025£415k—0unclear—noted
OXFORDSHIRE BREASTFEEDING SUPPORT FY2025£64k—0within—no doubt
DORPIP FY2025£238k—0unclear—no doubt
EXTRA - SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES FY2025£187k—0unclear—no doubt
PARENT-INFANT FOUNDATION LTD FY2025£777k£60,000 - £70,0001above7.4%no doubt

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