WEST SUSSEX PARENT CARER FORUM

Registered charity 1156360 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WSPCF

WSPCF support Parents and Carers of Young People aged 0-25 with Learning Difficulties and Disabilities. We are an independent, parent carer led charity representing the views of our members in West Sussex and work in partnership with others to make our voice heard to positively improve local services for disabled children, young people and their families providing training and information.

Objects

I) TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES AND/OR ADDITIONAL NEEDS AND THEIR PARENT AND FAMILIES IN WEST SUSSEX THROUGH PARTICIPATION IN SHAPING LOCAL SERVICES, THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION AND SUPPORT.II) 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.

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Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity has entered into a merger with another charity, transferring its operations on 1 April 2026 and expecting to transfer assets and liabilities by 1 July 2026. Per the trustees' report, the charity's unrestricted funds stood at £228,322 at the end of the financial year, having generated a net income surplus of £52,047.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2025) → not a going concern (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed by this site.

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07955164

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.

• KEAN, Sally-Anne — director, appointed 21/01/2025on trustee list
• CLARKE, Sally — director, appointed 01/10/2024on trustee list
• HUGHES, Maria Caroline — director, appointed 20/10/2021on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Samantha Jane — director, appointed 01/06/2020on trustee list
• BUTTERFIELD, Lindsey Sharon — director, appointed 20/02/2012on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• LINDSEY SHARON BUTTERFIELD
• Maria Caroline Hughes
• Sally Clarke · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sally-Anne Kean
• Samantha Jane Taylor

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

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