SMILE FOR LIFE CHILDRENS CHARITY

Registered charity 1129935 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We support disabled and disadvantaged youngsters to live a happy and easier life. We provide specialist equipment, wonderful experiences and short breaks for families often in desperate need. Our Cafe Beam is a community coffee shop run entirely by young people with special needs providing hands on work experience, new skills and confidence to enter the world of paid employment.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY SHALL BE TO RELIEVE THE POVERTY, SICKNESS ANDDISTRESS WHETHER PHYSICAL, MENTAL OR OTHERWISE OF CHILDREN PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE REGIONS OF THE NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND, SCOTTISH BORDERS AND OTHER AREAS WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM AS DECIDED BY THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME, WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS.

Area of benefit: THE REGIONS OF THE NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND, SCOTTISH BORDERS AND OTHER AREAS WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a net surplus of £26,020, recovering from a deficit in the previous year. The trustees confirm the charity is in a strong financial position and that no material uncertainties exist regarding its 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06913129

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Smile for Life Children's Charity (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Sage UK — “We were delighted to work with a team from Sage UK to strip the room then paint, carpet, furnish and provide beautiful finishing touches to …” (source page)
• UNW accountants — “Our team assessed her garden at home and together with a team of volunteers from UNW accountants, planned a new allergy free garden for Sava…” (source page)

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.

• ROBSON, Dillon Jon, Dr — director, appointed 25/06/2025on trustee list
• COATES, Nigel Frederick — director, appointed 08/11/2010on trustee list
• WELBURY, Jan, Doctor — director, appointed 08/11/2010on trustee list
• GLEDSON, Margery Elizabeth — director, appointed 04/01/2010on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (46% 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: 61.1% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/09/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MARGERY GLEDSONchair
• Dr Dillon Robson
• Dr JAN WELBURY
• NIGEL COATES · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

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 WE ARE BEAMS.

• WE ARE BEAMS income £2.5m
• JOSEPH'S SMILE income £169k
• SMILEYARK KIDS income £245k
• SMILE THROUGH SPORT income £233k
• GIFT A SMILE income £141k
• SWINGS & SMILES income £556k

Side by side with its peers

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