LITTLE HEARTS MATTER

Registered charity 1123290 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Support & advice via telephone helplines, information on diagnoses & treatment, putting families in touch with others with similar experiences through regional support groups, updates & ongoing contact via regular members newsletters, education events for families to meet & learn from medical experts, raising the profile of these conditions etc., etc.,

Objects

3.1) TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF AND SUPPORT FOR PERSONS AFFECTED BY A SINGLE VENTRICLE HEART CONDITION;3.2) TO SUPPORT FAMILIES OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AFFECTED BY A SINGLE VENTRICLE HEART CONDITION; AND3.3) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND THE MEDICAL PROFESSION ON THE SUBJECT OF SINGLE VENTRICLE HEART CONDITIONS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FAMILY.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE, THROUGHOUT ENGLAND & WALES

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Birmingham, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £185,611 for the year, resulting in unrestricted reserves falling to £114,718. Per the trustees' report, this was due to a significant drop in income and the charity is currently recruiting a new long-term CEO to stabilize its financial position.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Little Hearts Matter (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~5.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Asha Ghosh
• DAVID CHARLES ADRIAN BAUMBER
• Hannah Kate Palmer
• ISABEL BRIDGET BAUMBER
• Kimberley Kean
• Vikki King

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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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

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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 TINY TICKERS LIMITED.

• TINY TICKERS LIMITED income £367k
• CONTACT A FAMILY income £8.8m
• HORSHAM MATTERS LIMITED income £795k
• LONDON HEARTS income £5.4m
• BLACK HEART FOUNDATION (UK) LIMITED income £1.3m
• TOGETHER FOR SHORT LIVES income £6.0m

Side by side with its peers

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