CHILDREN'S RESPITE TRUST

Registered charity 1140277 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Children's Respite Trust provides respite for disabled children and support for their families. In doing so, the Trust first makes sure that families receive the state support to which they are entitled through its advocacy service before then arranging support through community based carers or day-care at the Trust's respite Centre.

Objects

TO PROVIDE RESPITE, RELIEF, ASSISTANCE AND SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WHO HAVE DISABILITIES AND THEIR PARENTS, CARERS AND FAMILIES.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £31,703 for the year, with total income of £403,407 against expenditure of £371,704. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £66,540, which is below the stated policy target of retaining between one and three months' average running costs.

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 6 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
• 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
• 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

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Children's Respite Trust (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).

• St James's Place — “St James's Place Grants Children's Respite Trust Astounding Grant £30,000 Grant Helps Children Enjoy More Time to Play,Grow and Thrive” (source page)
• Thomson Snell & Passmore — “Celebrating Two Years of Support from Thomson Snell & Passmore Thomson Snell & Passmore raise over £9,000 for the Children's Respite Trust a…” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Beck
• Edward Howarth
• Hannah Parker Read
• Katherine Davies
• RICHARD BUSHNELL

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CHILDREN'S FAMILY TRUST.

• THE CHILDREN'S FAMILY TRUST income £9.7m
• SEFTON CHILDRENS TRUST income £71k
• THE SICK CHILDREN'S TRUST income £2.8m
• Child Bereavement UK income £2.7m
• CHILDREN ON THE EDGE income £1.9m
• TREWAN SANDS CHILDREN'S TRUST income £207k

Side by side with its peers

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