THE BLUE THREAD

Registered charity 1130704 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

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Objects

FOR ANY PURPOSES WHICH ARE CHARITABLE IN THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £2,749,471 for the year, resulting in unrestricted reserves falling into a deficit of £140,175. However, the trustees confirm the charity is a going concern, noting that unrestricted reserves were restored to a surplus position by post-year-end donations of shares valued at £2.63 million.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £70,001 - £80,000 (FY2024) to £80,001 - £90,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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.

• Conflicting interests
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Blue Thread (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (96% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amy Grabiner
• DANIEL GRABINER
• Emily Rose Grabiner-Wolfson
• JOSEPH GRABINER-WOLFSON
• MIRIAM GRABINER
• SARAH GRABINER
• STEPHEN GRABINER

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.

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 BEDFORDSHIRE CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED.

• BEDFORDSHIRE CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED income £372k
• THE A M CHARITABLE TRUST income £157k
• BLUEPRINT TRUST income £122k
• THE GB TRUST income £57k
• THE BLUES AND ROYALS ASSOCIATION income £136k
• LAVY CHARITABLE TRUST income £66k

Side by side with its peers

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