SEBASTIAN'S ACTION TRUST

Registered charity 1151146 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We support families of children with life-limiting conditions, aged 0-19, from point of diagnosis, through treatment and beyond, by listening and responding to their unmet need.Our holistic model of care provides fully accessible respite breaks for families living in the UK. We also provide outreach support services to families living in Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Hamps, Surrey and Oxfordshire.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF CHILDREN WITH LIFE – LIMITING OR LIFE – THREATENING MEDICAL CONDITIONS, AND THEIR FAMILIES BY:A) THE PROVISION OF RESPITE HOLIDAYS AND DAY VISITS;B) THE PROVISION OF PRACTICAL SUPPORT WITH THE AIM OF ASSISTING FAMILIES IN NEED AT CRITICAL TIME IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY TO EMERGENCY TRANSPORT, WELLBEING THERAPY, PSYCHO-SOCIAL CARE, SIBLING SUPPORT, HELP AT HOME AND BEREAVEMENT CARE;C) TO RAISE AWARENESS OF THE NEED TO IMPROVE SERVICES AND PROVISIONS FOR FAMILIES OF LIFE- LIMITED CHILDREN.

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £608,437 for the year ended 31 March 2025, following a previous deficit of £782,566. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £315,288, with total free reserves equivalent to 6.1 months of operating costs, against a policy target of six months. The trustees confirm the charity has sufficient cashflow to meet its obligations and continues to operate as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Stewart & Co Accountants LLP. Discloses 4 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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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 31/03/2021 (received 02/02/2022, 2 days after the 31/01/2022 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Sebastian's Action Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (42% 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: 67.9% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/07/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Fiona Wrightchair
• Simon Lawrence Parsons
• Vanessa Avlonitis
• Vicky Westbrook

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

Operates in: Bracknell Forest · Buckinghamshire · Hampshire · Oxfordshire · Slough · Surrey · West Berkshire · Windsor And Maidenhead · Wokingham

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

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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 STEPHEN'S CHILDREN.

• STEPHEN'S CHILDREN income £52k
• SEFTON CHILDRENS TRUST income £71k
• ACTION FOR CHILDREN income £163.4m
• SOUTHAMPTON FAMILY TRUST income £95k
• BICESTER CHRISTIAN ACTION LIMITED income £210k
• THE FAMILY TRUST income £331k

Side by side with its peers

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