FRIENDS AND FAMILIES OF SPECIAL CHILDREN LTD

Registered charity 1140826 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FRIENDS AND FAMILIES

This charity was formed to take over the existing charity Friends and Families of Special Children which is an unincorporated oranisation with charity no 1114692. This duly happened with effect from 1/6/2012.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £4,862 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total net assets of £77,753. The trustees note that fundraising has been increasingly difficult and the organization has reduced its full-time staff to two members to achieve cost savings of circa £60,000 per annum. The financial statements were prepared in accordance with the small companies regime and subjected to independent examination rather than audit.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Clare Milne Trust — “The Impact of Clare Milne Trust Funding at Friends & Families.” (source page)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/08/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/05/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ashleigh Phillips · trustee of 1 other charity
• Holly May Bowditch
• JONATHAN MORCOM
• KAY O' SHAUGHNESSY
• Stephen Parker · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Cornwall · Devon · Plymouth City

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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