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.

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

Latest income

£342k

Latest spending

£251k

Registered

2013

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £87,201, which is above the trustees' policy target of £82,523 (three months of forecasted running costs). The charity reported a net income surplus of £91,315 for the year, driven by significant new investment from the National Lottery Community Fund and NHS Sussex.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three months running costs (held: £87k)

“It is the policy of the trustees to hold the equivalent of three months running costs in unrestricted reserves calculated on the basis of forecasted expenditure for the following financial year (2025-26: £330,093). This requires us to hold £82,523.” — page 7

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£342k	£251k
31/03/2024	£244k	£241k
31/03/2023	£246k	£196k
31/03/2022	£235k	£151k
31/03/2021	£130k	£122k

Common questions

Is REACHING FAMILIES LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £87,201, which is above the trustees' policy target of £82,523 (three months of forecasted running costs). The charity reported a net income surplus of £91,315 for the year, driven by significant new investment from the National Lottery Community Fund and NHS Sussex. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds REACHING FAMILIES LIMITED?

Funders whose own accounts filings name REACHING FAMILIES LIMITED as a grant recipient include THE BASCULE CHARITABLE TRUST, THE SUSSEX COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, THE GROCERS' CHARITY.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE BASCULE CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£65k
THE BASCULE CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£40k
THE BASCULE CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£25k
THE SUSSEX COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	FY2022	£10k
THE GROCERS' CHARITY	FY2024	£5k	Disability

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	11/12/2023	£88k	Benefits Advice Service
The National Lottery Community Fund	15/07/2022	£10k	Benefits Advice Service
The National Lottery Community Fund	19/03/2021	£10k	Making Sense Of It All
The National Lottery Community Fund	12/12/2019	£116k	Peer-to-Peer Support Service
The National Lottery Community Fund	19/10/2016	£130k	Reaching Families 2
The National Lottery Community Fund	25/03/2015	£9k	Making Sense Of Transition
The National Lottery Community Fund	27/10/2011	£9k	Workshop Roadshow