MALVERN SPECIAL FAMILIES

Registered charity 1143655 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Excellent providers of safe, stimulating and fun social opportunities for children and young people with disabilities. We provide Saturday clubs, after-school clubs, evening youth groups, and holiday play schemes for children and young people with disabilities. Our clubs take place in Malvern and Worcester and we currently support just over 150 families in the area.

Objects

TO PROVIDE RELIEF FOR FAMILIES WHO HAVE A CHILD OR YOUNG ADULT WITH SPECIAL NEEDS

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

Causes: Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Malvern Hills, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £8,626 for the year ended 31 March 2026, compared to a deficit of £54,348 in the prior year. Free unrestricted reserves decreased from £75,036 to £63,003, which the trustees note is below their stated policy target of maintaining reserves equating to 25% of anticipated costs. Despite these challenges, the trustees confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• 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 — Malvern Special Families (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ceri Bannister
• Christopher Stephens
• Clive Graham Fletcher
• David Charles Palmer
• Jeremy Michael Faust
• John Aiton
• Katy Hollingworth
• MARGARET EILEEN BUCHANAN
• Stephanie Myres

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

Operates in: Worcestershire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with The Family & Community Group.

• The Family & Community Group income £64k
• MARCHES FAMILY NETWORK income £285k
• SPECIAL NEEDS AND PARENTS LIMITED income £925k
• SPORTING FAMILY CHANGE FOUNDATION income £544k
• CHILDREN FIRST DERBY income £506k
• COMMUNITY ACTION MALVERN AND DISTRICT income £457k

Side by side with its peers

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