DREAMFLIGHT

Registered charity 1117303 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC044892 (OSCR)

Dreamflight takes children with significant health conditions or disabilities on extraordinary trips to the theme parks of Orlando and UK activity centres, without their parents. These experiences help children discover independence, build confidence and develop a new belief in what's possible.

Objects

TO RELIEVE YOUNG PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF 18 YEARS WHO ARE PHYSICALLY OR MENTALLY DISABLED OR WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF POVERTY, SICKNESS OR DISTRESS AND IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING BY THE PROVISION OF HOLIDAYS

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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

Causes: Disability · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a net operating deficit for the year, with expenditure of £1,706,429 exceeding income of £1,528,711. However, this shortfall was offset by net gains on investments of £190,661, resulting in a small overall increase in funds of £12,943. Total unrestricted funds stood at £2.788 million, which the Trustees confirmed was within their stated reserves policy target of £2 million to £3 million.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Dunkley's. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2025) → 1 (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05963834

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Dreamflight (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• KENDALL, Gaylene Jennefer — director, appointed 05/06/2014on trustee list
• GAWN, David John — director, appointed 03/03/2011on trustee list
• BAILEY, Simon, Professor — director, appointed 11/10/2006on trustee list
• BASS, Robert — director, appointed 11/10/2006on trustee list
• PEARCE, Patricia Mary — director, appointed 11/10/2006on trustee list
• PROUDLOCK, Christina — secretary, appointed 24/10/2024

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~19.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (98% 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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Catherine Foster
• DAVID GAWN
• Gaylene Jennefer Kendall
• PROFESSOR Simon Bailey · trustee of 1 other charity
• ROBERT BASS
• Sarah Barr Miller

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

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

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

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 THE DREAM FACTORY.

• THE DREAM FACTORY income £174k
• CHILDFLIGHT income £111k
• TAYLOR MADE DREAMS income £423k
• DAISY'S DREAM income £402k
• AEROBILITY income £960k
• FULFIL THE WISH income £61k

Side by side with its peers

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