SUNNY DAYS CHILDRENS FUND

Registered charity 1114784 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Activities for the benefit of sick and or disabled children in the UK by the provision of financial assistance to individuals, including holidays for themselves and their families. To Provide advocacy/information and emotional support to children and their families and or to support the charitable work of similar institutions.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF CHILDREN IN THE UK AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT, IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE FOREGOING, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE WHO ARE SICK OR DISABLED, BY THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO INDIVIDUALS, INCLUDING HOLIDAYS FOR THEMSELVES AND THEIR FAMILIES, TO SUPPORT THE CHARITABLE WORK OF OTHER INSTITUTIONS.

Area of benefit: IN PRACTICE THE UNITED KINGDOM

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £205,885, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of maintaining between £40,000 and £50,000. The trustees report that they have a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, despite noting a dependence on sponsors and donors for continuing financial support.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by KLSA LLP. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/03/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• John McClymont
• WAYNE POTTER
• WILLIAM POTTER

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

Operates in: 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 SUNSHINE CHILDREN'S CENTRE.

• SUNSHINE CHILDREN'S CENTRE income £784k
• TREWAN SANDS CHILDREN'S TRUST income £207k
• KIDS IN MIND income £4.2m
• VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY income £7.2m
• THE SUNNY SKIES FOUNDATION income £150k
• FIRST DAYS CHILDREN'S CHARITY income £452k

Side by side with its peers

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