REACHING FAMILIES LIMITED

Registered charity 1150906 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Reaching Families delivers a range of activities including (i) Making Sense Of It All - a comprehensive guide for parent-carers to a range of a relevant issues (ii) Factsheets on childhood disabilities and a wide variety of other subjects (iii) training on a wide range of issues (iv) short term group counseling for parent-carers.

Objects

I) TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF DISABLED PEOPLE, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, THEIR PARENTS, CARERS AND FAMILIES 2) TO FURTHER ANY OTHER SUCH PURPOSES DEEMED. CHARITABLE BY THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Arun, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated at a net deficit of £86,924 for the year ended 31 March 2026, with total income of £215,913 against charitable expenditure of £302,837. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £137,846, which is above the stated policy target of £83,513 (equivalent to three months' running costs). The filing confirms there are no material uncertainties about the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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.

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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08261096

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• PATERSON, Jemma — director, appointed 24/10/2023on trustee list
• GEARING, Sharon Emily — director, appointed 21/06/2022on trustee list
• JAY, Christopher Thomas — director, appointed 30/10/2018on trustee list
• RODGERS, Helen — director, appointed 12/05/2015on trustee list

Official officers record.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/06/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Charlotte Linington
• Christopher Thomas Jay
• Helen Rodgers
• Jemma Paterson
• Sharon Emily Gearing

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

Operates in: West Sussex

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 CONTACT A FAMILY.

• CONTACT A FAMILY income £8.8m
• THE FAMILY FOUNDATION income £86k
• MARCHES FAMILY NETWORK income £285k
• REACH LEARNING DISABILITY income £3.9m
• REACHOUT COMMUNITY CHURCH IRCHESTER income £57k
• REACH CHARITY LIMITED income £367k

Side by side with its peers

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