BIRTH COMPANIONS

Registered charity 1120934 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BIRTH COMPANIONS LTD

We support women experiencing severe disadvantages in the period before, during and after the birth of their babies. We run groups and give one to one support to women in four prisons and in the community in London. We have a national remit to improve the experiences and care of women facing health and social inequalities in the perinatal period through training, research and influencing change.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £102,457 for the year ended 31 March 2025, following a deficit in the previous year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves stood at £661,334, meeting 94% of the stated policy target of nine months' running costs. The trustees consider there to be sufficient funding secured to prepare the accounts on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties.

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06269047

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Birth Companions (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.

• GEOGHEGAN, Chloe — director, appointed 25/03/2026on trustee list
• FOWLES, Lydia — director, appointed 13/03/2024on trustee list
• MEYER, Klare Emma — director, appointed 15/06/2022on trustee list
• MONCRIEFFE, Tuesdae — director, appointed 10/03/2021on trustee list
• JULIFF, Julie — director, appointed 10/06/2020on trustee list
• KERR-DAVIS, Jennifer — director, appointed 27/02/2019on trustee list
• MATTHEWS, Sally Anne — director, appointed 21/02/2018on trustee list
• STEPHENS, Anne Justine Margaret — director, appointed 19/03/2014on trustee list
• PARKINSON, Diana — director, appointed 05/06/2007on trustee list
• DELAP, Naomi Frances — secretary, appointed 06/05/2014

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram · linkedin

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~11.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (74% 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: 2.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/10/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sally Anne Matthewschair
• Anne Stephens
• Chloe Geoghegan
• Diana Jane Parkinson
• Jennifer Kerr-Davis
• Julie Juliff
• Klare Emma Meyer
• Lydia Fowles
• Tuesdae Moncrieffe

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

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 THE BIRTH PARTNER PROJECT.

• THE BIRTH PARTNER PROJECT income £141k
• PARTNERS OF PRISONERS AND FAMILIES SUPPORT GROUP income £2.1m
• ELAYOS income £161k
• MOTHER TO MOTHER LIMITED income £274k
• WOMEN’S HEALTH MATTERS income £803k
• TWINS TRUST LTD income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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