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Registered charity 1113432 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Offer regular support, friendship and practical help to families with young chidren, who are under stress. Volunteers visit families in their own homes, helping to prevent family crisis and breakdown.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £10,470 for the year ended 31 March 2025, increasing its total reserves to £64,643. The trustees note that unrestricted reserves provide only minimum cover for emergencies and are below the stated optimum target of six months' expenditure (circa £100,000). The charity remains dependent on grant aid and fundraising, with funding uncertainty cited as a major issue.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05659978

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.

• GOODRIDGE, Stephen Joseph — director, appointed 25/09/2025on trustee list
• LLOYD, Catherine Rosemary — director, appointed 11/04/2024on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Virginia Frances Mary — director, appointed 26/06/2020on trustee list
• WRIDE, Philippa — director, appointed 03/02/2020on trustee list
• STOBART, Jeremy — director, appointed 04/02/2019on trustee list
• FRANCES, Jan — director, appointed 21/06/2018on trustee list
• PREECE, Amanda Carolyn — secretary, appointed 01/12/2009

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jan Franceschair
• Catherine Lloyd
• Jeremy Stobart
• Philippa Wride
• Stephen Joseph Goodridge
• Virginia Taylor

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

Operates in: Herefordshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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