DREAMCHASING

Registered charity 1118488 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Dreamchasing was incorporated on 26 January 2007. The objects of the charity are to maintain, support or contribute to charitable organisations and individuals in the United Kingdom or worldwide. In the year, the Charity made donations totalling ?95,405.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Latest income

£5.3m

Latest spending

£1.4m

Registered

2007

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £16,470,414, which significantly exceed the stated policy target of £100,000. Per the trustees' report, the charity generated a net income of £3,864,972 and maintains adequate resources 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

Reserves policy: £100,000 (held: £16.5m)

“The trustees consider an amount of £100,000 should be set as free reserves.” — page 6

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Blick Rothenberg Audit LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/05/2025)

Total income

£5.3m

Total spending

£1.4m

Cost of raising funds

£8k

Reserves (reported)

£10.5m

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~87.1 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 (95% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Sir RONALD DENNIS CBEchair · trustee of 1 other charity
CHARLOTTE HALL
CHRISTIAN DENNIS
CLIVE CHRISTOPHER ROGER BANNISTER
FRANCESCA DENNIS
Nigel Martyn Carrington

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/05/2025	£5.3m	£1.4m
31/05/2024	£2.6m	£2.5m
31/05/2023	£822k	£238k
31/05/2022	£313k	£4.3m
31/05/2021	£645k	£4.3m

Common questions

Is DREAMCHASING financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £16,470,414, which significantly exceed the stated policy target of £100,000. Per the trustees' report, the charity generated a net income of £3,864,972 and maintains adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Blick Rothenberg Audit LLP.

Who funds DREAMCHASING?

Funders whose own accounts filings name DREAMCHASING as a grant recipient include THE DANSON FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE DANSON FOUNDATION	FY2021	£2k

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE SIR JAMES ROLL CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£6k
THE VEOLIA ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST	1	£70k
SHEMTOV CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£58k
THE RICHARD HARRIS CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£51k
M AND M FOUNDATION	1	£30k
SAMJO LIMITED	1	£25k
THE JOHN R. MURRAY CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£10k
PARKLAKE CHARITY TRUST	1	£5k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PROMISE DREAMS.

PROMISE DREAMS income £237k
STRATTON CHASE FOUNDATION income £10.7m
FUTURE DREAMS TRUST LIMITED income £2.1m
CHORTKOV TRUST income £219k
DREAMS COME TRUE CHARITY income £1.3m
DREAM MAKERS income £129k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
DREAMCHASING	£5.3m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
PROMISE DREAMS FY2024	£237k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
STRATTON CHASE FOUNDATION FY2026	£10.7m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
FUTURE DREAMS TRUST LIMITED FY2024	£2.1m	—	—	within	—	no doubt
CHORTKOV TRUST FY2025	£219k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
DREAMS COME TRUE CHARITY FY2025	£1.3m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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