FAMILIES AND BABIES (FAB)

Registered charity 1136594 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE INFANT FEEDING TRUST

The Charity aims to support health and well-being in children and families in the UK. The charity was renamed to FAB- Families And Babies to better reflect the aims of the charity. FAB provide peer support services offering evidenced based information & support to help improve health & well-being within families.

Objects

1) TO ADVANCE AND PROMOTE THE PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH OF MOTHERS AND CHILDREN THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT, EDUCATION AND TRAINING REGARDING BREASTFEEDING.2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND PROMOTE THE GOOD HEALTH OF CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF FIVE YEARS, THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, SUPPORT, TRAINING AND SUPPORTING RESEARCH INTO HEALTHY EATING.

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: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts indicate a reliance on external funding and public health signposting, with the charity actively seeking new ways to promote its services to ensure continuity. While the organization reports strong community engagement and volunteer support, it acknowledges financial uncertainty arising from potential increases in minimum wage and the need to secure future funding streams.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Families and Babies (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~5.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (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: 5.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Elaine Edwardschair
• Dulani Ruwanmali Mendis Scott
• Lorraine Christine Carter
• Michael Hudson

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

Operates in: Bolton · City Of Wakefield · Dorset · Lancashire · Salford City

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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FAB (FAMILIES' ACTIVITY BREAKS).

• FAB (FAMILIES' ACTIVITY BREAKS) income £135k
• THE FAMILY INFORMATION GROUP income £400k
• HOME-START BIRMINGHAM SOUTH income £140k
• CHILDREN AND FAMILIES LIMITED income £2.9m
• Home-Start Berkshire East income £303k
• FRG LTD income £2.3m

Side by side with its peers

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