AURORA FOUNDATION FOR PEOPLE ABUSED IN CHILDHOOD

Registered charity 1119145 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AURORA FOUNDATION LIMITED, AURORA HEALTH FOUNDATION LIMITED, Aurora Foundation · also registered in Scotland as SC052670 (OSCR)

Provision of therapeutic services mainly for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, but also for survivors of childhood physical, emotional and psychological abuse. In addition, the charity has developed a particular focus on helping adult survivors of female sexual abuse in childhood.

Objects

The objects of the Charity ("the Objects") are (1) the provision of specialised counselling and psychotherapy; therapeutic community support and bodywork therapies to promote preserve and protect good physical and mental health with the emphasis upon recovery exclusively for adult survivors of childhood trauma/abuse be that sexual, physical, emotional, psychological, spiritual and/or other forms of abuse including neglect. To also raise awareness of the negative post-traumatic effects of childhood abuse and campaign for the prevention of childhood abuse in the form of appropriate training and other activities to various stakeholders. (2) Nothing in the articles shall authorise an application of the property of the charity for purposes which are not charitable in accordance with section 7 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and/or section 2 of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008.(3) For the purposes of these Articles of Association the Charity’s Area of Benefit is the United Kingdom.

Area of benefit: LONDON

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated £116,150 in income but incurred total expenditures of £120,386, resulting in a net deficit of £4,236 for the year. Total funds carried forward decreased from £25,782 to £21,546, with unrestricted reserves falling to £5,979. The trustees consider the financial position to be satisfactory and report no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Aurora Foundation for People Abused in Childhood (matched by registered charity number).

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Jane Street
• Natasha Bain
• Rick Henderson · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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• NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR PEOPLE ABUSED IN CHILDHOOD income £394k
• SURVIVE (SUPPORT FOR SURVIVORS OF RAPE AND SEXUAL ABUSE) income £546k
• WE ARE SURVIVORS income £2.1m

Side by side with its peers

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