BLISS FAMILY CHARITY

Registered charity 1113165 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To support educational establishments for children under 18 years of age in Africa and to support families with children on that continent in need of food,shelter,healthcare and sustenance.PLEASE NOTE WE CAN NO LONGER ACCEPT ANY NEW APPLICATIONS FOR SUPPORT.

Objects

THE SUPPORT OF EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS FOR CHILDREN UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD BUT PARTICULARLY IN UNDEVELOPED COUNTRIES

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Tendring, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £112,406 at the year end, derived primarily from donations. The trustees confirmed that the charity is prepared on a going concern basis, citing strong levels of cash and unrestricted funds as evidence of its ability to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sumer Auditco Limited. Discloses 3 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MR D M BLISS
• VANDA DENISE BLISS
• William Mellor · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Eswatini

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BLISS TRUST.

• THE BLISS TRUST income £36k
• BLISS -THE NATIONAL CHARITY FOR THE NEWBORN income £2.3m
• BLOSS FAMILY FOUNDATION income £33k
• THE CRYSALYS FOUNDATION income £256k
• BUSY BEES PRE-SCHOOL income £270k
• MILLES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION LIMITED income £587k

Side by side with its peers

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