PROJECT BUZZ

Registered charity 1141034 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Buzz provides holistic support for separated families. Based in Sheffield, Buzz provides services across Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Ipswich. Services include Family Time (Supported, Supervised, Changeover, Virtual, Postal and Reconnections), Cooperative parenting support, Life Story, Drug Patch Testing, Resolution meetings, advocacy and a Listening service.

Objects

To provide for the benefit of the public, the provision of child contact services, the provision of education and other support facilities and the provision of other ancillary and associated services.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sheffield, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net expenditure of £32,030 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds. Unrestricted reserves of £41,630 are below the trustees' stated policy target range of £50,000-£100,000, which is designed to cover 3-6 months of running costs. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis, though the independent examiner noted concerns regarding governance and financial controls.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2025 (received 26/03/2026, 54 days after the 31/01/2026 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/06/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ashley Gray
• Chun Yin Wong
• Elizabeth Cassidy
• Laura Beaumont
• Lucy Weaver
• Pallawi Sinha
• Ralph Keene
• Russell Towsey
• Temitope Dele Akinyan

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

Operates in: Barnsley · Derbyshire · Doncaster · Leeds City · Rotherham · Sheffield City · Suffolk

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BUSHY LEAZE FAMILY SUPPORT.

• BUSHY LEAZE FAMILY SUPPORT income £196k
• SHEPHERDS BUSH FAMILIES PROJECT & CHILDRENS CENTRE income £216k
• BUZZ ACTION FOUNDATION CIO income £41k
• THE BOAZ TRUST HAMPSHIRE LIMITED income £357k
• BLESS COMMUNITY SUPPORT income £167k
• INDEPENDENT CHILDREN AND FAMILIES SERVICES income £125k

Side by side with its peers

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