DANDELION TIME

Registered charity 1136613 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE DANDELION TRUST FOR CHILDREN

Dandelion Time helps children struggling with the effects of trauma, abuse or neglect. Our farm setting provides a structured therapeutic sanctuary, with a wide variety of natural craft activities, where children can feel safe & valued. We work with the whole family, helping to break the cycle of abuse & to effect change. Families learn to build self-belief & create new beginnings.

Objects

TO HELP AND EDUCATE CHILDREN WITH VARIOUS BEHAVIOURAL EDUCATIONAL AND EMOTIONAL NEEDS PARTICULARLY BY PROVIDING THERAPEUTIC AND DEVELOPMENTAL ACTIVITIES FOR SUCH CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES WITHIN SUSTAINABLE FARM ENVIRONMENTS.

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Maidstone, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income was £1,091,836 against total expenditure of £991,199, resulting in a surplus. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £623,270, which the Trustees consider sufficient to cover just over six months of budgeted expenditure, aligning with their stated reserves policy target of six months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by WP Audit Services LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £60,000 - £70,000 (FY2024) to £70,001 - £80,000 (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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04959632 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Dandelion Time (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• ROMANO, Miranda Jane — director, appointed 03/03/2026on trustee list
• POTTER, Neil David Mowbray, Dr — director, appointed 19/01/2026on trustee list
• WEARE, Robert Antony — director, appointed 11/12/2025on trustee list
• BARNABY, Daniel Michael — director, appointed 11/12/2025on trustee list
• FENN, Jonathan Mark — director, appointed 21/06/2024on trustee list
• WILFORD, Gillian Mary Elizabeth — director, appointed 10/07/2019on trustee list
• NORMAN, Simon Edward Cavanagh — director, appointed 10/07/2019on trustee list
• ANGELL-PAYNE, Jane — secretary, appointed 11/11/2003

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (78% 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: 17.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gillian Mary Elizabeth Brownrigg Wilfordchair
• Daniel Michael Barnaby
• Dr Neil David Mowbray Potter
• Jonathan Mark Fenn
• Miranda Jane Romano
• Robert Anthony Weare
• Simon Edward Cavanagh Norman

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

Operates in: East Sussex · Kent

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 DANDELIONS COMMUNITY PRE-SCHOOL.

• DANDELIONS COMMUNITY PRE-SCHOOL income £207k
• THE DANDELION TRUST income £26k
• THE DANDELION FOUNDATION income £43k
• DUNNINGTON CHILDREN income £287k
• DANDELION DAY NURSERY AND KIDS' CLUB income £990k
• OUR TIME income £314k

Side by side with its peers

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