REACH CHARITY LIMITED

Registered charity 1134544 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Reach provides support and information for families who have children with upper limb deficiency. They organise local and national events so that families can meet and support each other. We operate a Bursary Grant scheme to make grants to individuals with skeletal upper limb defects where there is a proven need.

Objects

For the advancement, relief and support of people, and carers of people, with upper limb differences. In particular but not exclusively, children and young people who are either born with an upper limb difference or who acquire an upper limb difference in childhood.

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.

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Registered contact address: South Hams, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a net expenditure of £69,623 for the year, a significant improvement from the previous year's deficit. Unrestricted reserves stood at £322,640, which the trustees confirmed remains comfortably in excess of their stated policy target of three months' operating costs plus winding-up costs. The accounts state the charity remains a viable company with adequate resources to continue its operations.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07054164 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Reach Charity, for Children, Young People & adults with an Upper Limb Difference (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).

• Irwin Mitchell — “Irwin Mitchell is proud to pledge its support for the Reach Annual Families Weekends taking place in 2026-2028.” (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.

• MEAGER, Iain Michael — director, appointed 06/06/2026on trustee list
• GOODE, Jennifer — director, appointed 06/06/2026on trustee list
• BAYLIE, Daniel Thomas — director, appointed 06/09/2025on trustee list
• CREAMER, Colm Gearoid — director, appointed 07/09/2024on trustee list
• NIND, Rebecca Claire — director, appointed 22/06/2024on trustee list
• DICKENSON, Ella — director, appointed 22/06/2024on trustee list
• ROBERTSON, Phillip Gordon — director, appointed 22/10/2022on trustee list
• CREAMER, Chris — director, appointed 22/10/2022not on trustee list
• POUNDER, Esther Antonia — director, appointed 22/10/2022on trustee list
• LOWSON, Sarah Jane — secretary, appointed 01/08/2023

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 29/02/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~20.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/08/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Creamerchair
• Colm Gearoid Creamer
• Daniel Baylie
• Ella Dickenson
• Esther Pounder
• Gary Phillips
• Iain Meager
• Jennifer Goode
• Phillip Robertson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rebecca Claire Nind

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

Operates in: Ireland · Isle Of Man · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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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 REACH LEARNING DISABILITY.

• REACH LEARNING DISABILITY income £3.9m
• REACH COMMUNITY PROJECTS income £718k
• REACHING FAMILIES LIMITED income £216k
• OPERATION REACH income £61k
• REACH TRUST income £1.0m
• UPREACH CHARITABLE COMPANY income £4.7m

Side by side with its peers

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