GUY'S GIFT

Registered charity 1128116 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

SUPPORT FOR BEREAVED CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND THEIR FAMILIES IN COVENTRY AND WARWICKSHIRE.

Objects

3. THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (THE "OBJECTS") ARE:3.1 TO RELIEVE THE MENTAL, SPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL DISTRESS OF CHILDRENAFFECTED BY BEREAVEMENT OR LOSS, PARTICULARLY THROUGH GROUP WORK,SUPPORT, COUNSELLING AND EDUCATION, INCLUDING (BUT NOT BY WAY OFLIMITATION):3.1.1 INCREASING A CHILD'S KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF DEATH;3.1.2 INCREASING AWARENESS AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE GRIEVING PROCESS;3.1.3 PROMOTING OPEN COMMUNICATION WITHIN THE CHILD'S FAMILY;3.1.4 RESPONDING TO THE INDIVIDUAL NEEDS OF EACH CHILD AND ITS FAMILY,ENABLING THEM TO CONTINUE THEIR LIVES IN A MEANINGFUL WAY; AND3.1.5 ESTABLISHING ANY OTHER SERVICES AS MIGHT BE REQUIRED BY AN AGENCYDEALING WITH CHILD BEREAVEMENT.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL

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 · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net expenditure of £109,799 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £302,114 to £192,315. The trustees report that the current level of unrestricted free reserves is approximately equivalent to two months of expenditure, which is below their stated policy target of six months. Despite this shortfall, the trustees express confidence in finding financial resources to continue operations in 2026.

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 handling
• 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
• Investment
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2023 (received 27/11/2024, 27 days after the 31/10/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Guy's Gift (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2021)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (87% 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: 0.7% of total income.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/02/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ann Jones
• Edward Main OBE
• JACQUELINE POTTER
• Jane Freeman

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

Operates in: Coventry City · Warwickshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with KIDS TRUST.

• KIDS TRUST income £57k
• THE COVENTRY GENERAL CHARITY income £2.2m
• GAMLEARN income £310k
• THE CHARITY SERVICE LIMITED income £1.3m
• PUBLISH WHAT YOU FUND income £781k
• THE WHITWORTH CENTRE income £140k

Side by side with its peers

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