BLUE SMILE PROJECT

Registered charity 1139279 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BLUE SMILE

Blue Smile provides early-intervention, arts-based mental health support and therapy for children aged 3 -13 in schools across Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and surrounding areas.

Objects

1) FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, TO ENHANCE THE MENTAL HEALTH OF, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, IN PARTICULAR IN CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND SURROUNDING AREAS, THROUGH COUNSELLING, SUPPORT AND THERAPEUTIC USE OF THE ARTS; AND2) FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, TO SUPPORT SCHOOLS AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, IN PARTICULAR IN CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND SURROUNDING AREAS, IN ADDRESSING THE MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS OF, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE APPROPRIATELY.

Area of benefit: CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND SURROUNDING AREAS

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cambridge, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £54,953 for the year ended 31 July 2025, resulting in a decrease in net assets to £367,265. The trustees consider the optimal reserves level to be £298,000, representing six months' running costs, and note that unrestricted free reserves of £325,095 are sufficient to continue as a going concern despite a budgeted deficit for the following year.

Automated summary of the FY2025 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
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — BLUE SMILE PROJECT (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (70% 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: 24.3% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/11/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sarah Nolascochair
• Dr Tania Clarke
• Karen Glisson
• Nicholas Patrick Froy · trustee of 1 other charity
• Olivia Abigail Sofia Rowlands
• Rachael Eleanor Armitage

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Peterborough City · Suffolk

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ONCE UPON A SMILE LIMITED.

• ONCE UPON A SMILE LIMITED income £531k
• SMILE GROUP income £281k
• SMILE MEDIATION LTD income £218k
• SPREAD A SMILE income £2.2m
• SMILE AID income £230k
• OPERATION SMILE UNITED KINGDOM income £7.5m

Side by side with its peers

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