Skylarks Charity

Registered charity 1148114 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ME TOO & CO, Skylarks

Skylarks supports children with additional needs across London and the UK through therapeutic activities, play, life skills, and employment training. We empower families via expert advice, training, and carer wellbeing services. Furthermore, we provide training and awareness raising for organisations to foster inclusion. We ensure every child can thrive and every family feels supported.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF CHILDREN WITH ADDITIONAL NEEDS DUE TO PHYSICAL OR LEARNING IMPAIRMENT, EMOTIONAL OR BEHAVIOUR DIFFICULTIES OR ANY PERMANENT OR TEMPORARY ILLNESS, IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND AND SURROUNDING AREAS, AND THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION, PRACTICAL ADVICE AND SUPPORT TO THEIR FAMILIES, CARERS AND SIBLINGS.

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 · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Richmond upon Thames, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that Skylarks Charity reported a surplus of £57,325 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted funds of £284,744. The trustees maintain a reserves policy of three to six months of unrestricted income, and the current unrestricted reserves are sufficient to cover this target. The charity is operating on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties disclosed.

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
• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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 31/03/2023 (received 01/02/2024, 1 day after the 31/01/2024 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~4.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (84% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 24.5% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/11/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jennifer Dawn Peterschair
• Ann-Louise Ward
• Dane Hardie
• Daniel Radley
• Dr MEREILLE NEMH
• Robert Mitchell Pender

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

Operates in: Ealing · Hammersmith And Fulham · Hounslow · Kingston Upon Thames · Richmond Upon Thames · Surrey · Sutton · Wandsworth

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LARK CHILDREN'S CENTRE.

• LARK CHILDREN'S CENTRE income £440k
• INCREDIBLE KIDS income £140k
• Skylark International Community income £106k
• LITTLE RASCALS FOUNDATION income £74k
• FOUNDATIONS: SUPPORTING FAMILIES income £336k
• KIDS MATTER income £892k

Side by side with its peers

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