DREAMFLIGHT

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

Dreamflight provides children with a serious illness or disability between the ages of 8-14 with their holiday of a lifetime to the theme parks of Orlando, Florida, or for children aged between 8-16 a UK holiday. The experience of being away from home, often for the first time, enables them to enjoy a degree of independence and they return more confident as a result of their achievements.

Causes: Disability · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net deficit of £182,131 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total funds. The trustees maintain that the organization remains a going concern, citing adequate resources and a reserves policy target of £2 million to £3 million, against which free reserves of £2,775,175 were held.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by SCB (Accountants) Ltd. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~20.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 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: 2.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (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

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Known funders

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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 THE DREAM FACTORY.

• THE DREAM FACTORY income £174k
• CHILDREN WITH CYSTIC FIBROSIS-DREAM HOLIDAYS income £211k
• DREAMS COME TRUE CHARITY income £1.3m
• Dragonfly Cancer Trust income £215k
• PROMISE DREAMS income £237k
• ACHIEVED DREAMS income £126k

Side by side with its peers

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