Foundation for Children

Registered charity 1137031 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Foundation for Families

Grants have been awarded to various organisations throughout the UK who are working to alleviate poverty and overcome disadvantage amongst children in need.

Objects

TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY AND OVERCOME DISADVANTAGE AMONGST CHILDREN INNEED MAINLY IN THE UK, REGARDLESS OF THEIR GENDER, ABILITY OR DISABILITY,RELIGION, NATIONALITY, ETHNIC OR NATIONAL ORIGINS, AND ESPECIALLY AMONGST THEPOPULATION OF UNDER FIVES NOT YET ATTENDING FULL-TIME SCHOOL, THROUGH:(A) ASSISTING THEIR PARENTS, FAMILIES AND CARERS TO PROVIDE FOR THEIR BETTERHEALTH, SAFETY AND WELFARE, AND AN ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH THEY CANFLOURISH AND DEVELOP THEIR FULL POTENTIAL;(B) PROMOTING AND ENABLING THEIR ACCESS TO THE HIGHEST QUALITY CARE ANDEDUCATION; AND(C) HELPING THEIR PARENTS, PARTICULARLY THOSE WHO ARE SINGLE PARENTS, TOOBTAIN TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT, WHILST BALANCING THEIR WORK ANDFAMILY RESPONSIBILITIES.

Area of benefit: THE UK,

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that all work of the charity has been carried out by trustees on a voluntary basis, with no staff costs disclosed. The charity reports a 50% increase in donations and aims to hold sufficient cash to meet foreseeable expenditure, investing remaining funds in fixed-term deposits.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 4 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.

• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DR KAY TURNERchair
• LAURA WATTS BA
• STEFAN DOMINIC WATTS

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).