RUBY'S FUND

Registered charity 1152148 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

A fully inclusive sensory centre & social cafe for children & young people with disabilities & additional needs.The centre with social cafe offers a safe, stimulating environment, giving individuals, families, carers & groups chance toexplore & develop. Ideal for therapy, relaxation, education, friendship & fun. It provides a sensory room, soft play, groups, sessions & support groups.

Objects

TO PROVIDE RECREATIONAL, EDUCATIONAL AND LEISURE FACILITIES FOR (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) INDIVIDUALS OF ALL AGES WITH ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND/OR SOCIAL NEEDS INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) PROVIDING A MULTISENSORY STUDIO, SOFT PLAY FACILITY AREA, EDUCATIONAL CLASSES, RESPITE AND SOCIAL SUPPORT GROUP AFFORDED BY WAY OF FUNDRAISING THROUGH VARIOUS METHODS INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) THE DESIGN, MANUFACTURE AND SALE OF PRODUCTS AND THE OPERATION OF A CAFE.

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cheshire East, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds decreased from £152,200 to £119,479, while total net assets increased to £474,926. The trustees report that reserves are currently set at £55,000, which is below the actual unrestricted funds held. The charity operates on a going concern basis with adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Ruby's Fund (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The Axis Foundation — “The Axis Foundation focus is to support small local and impactful causes in the areas where we work (London, South of England, Midlands and …” (source page)
• The Grace Trust — “The Grace Trust purposes included supporting education, especially for young people (where it is taught under a Christian ethos), the furthe…” (source page)
• The Stephanie Jeanne Glynn Foundation (CIO) — “The Stephanie Jeanne Glynn Foundation (CIO) will make grants to charities or charitable projects that are focused on helping babies, childre…” (source page)
• The Wain Foundation — “The Wain Foundation support charities with a focus on enriching the lives of disadvantages children, young people and their families. A big …” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold); recorded price paid £300k. 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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/01/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Mark Pearchair
• Adrian Swindells
• Carol Baniff
• Dawn Brown
• Matthew Lewis

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · Cheshire West & Chester · Derbyshire · Staffordshire · Stockport

Income and spending

Common questions

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 SPACE.

• SPACE income £256k
• TINY-STEPS income £31k
• RUBERY COMMUNITY AND LEISURE CENTRE LTD income £29k
• CAFE JJ income £108k
• THE HUBB FOUNDATION income £1.5m
• THE SENSORY PLACE income £122k

Side by side with its peers

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