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.

Objects

A TO BRING ABOUT IMPROVEMENTS IN SERVICES FOR BENEFICIARIES WITH SPECIAL NEEDS;B TO PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT AND HEALTH OF CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS (INCLUDING SOCIAL AND PERSONAL);C TO PROMOTE A FORUM THAT PROMOTES EMPOWERMENT AND PARTICIPATION FOR SERVICE USERS IN THE DELIVERY OF SERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS, AND THEIR FAMILIES/CARERS.

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

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

Registered contact address: Plymouth, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

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.

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

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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 FRIEND AND FAMILY OF HIGHFIELDS AND/OR F.F.H.

• FRIEND AND FAMILY OF HIGHFIELDS AND/OR F.F.H income £35k
• SPECIAL FRIENDS CLUB income £72k
• FRIENDS OF GREEN FOLD income £29k
• FRIENDS OF MAYFIELD SPECIAL SCHOOL income £34k
• FRIENDS OF BEECROFT GARDEN PRIMARY SCHOOL income £27k
• FAMILY FRIENDS income £348k

Side by side with its peers

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