ACTS FAST

Registered charity 1157675 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

ACTS FAST supports the non-abusive parents and kinship carers of children who have suffered child sexual abuse and parents who are co-parenting with individuals who have been arrested for online child sexual offences. With the help of our one to one trauma support and counselling services, we work with families so they can regain their strength and look towards the future.We cover SW England.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS TO FAMILIES, PARENTS, CARERS AND CHILDREN WHO HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY SEXUAL ABUSE

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is nearing the end of its four-year funding award from The National Lottery, resulting in a financial deficit that the trustees describe as making the future of the service uncertain. Despite this uncertainty, the charity reports positive operational impact, having supported 216 clients with 1,965 hours of support during the year.

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 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
• 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)

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 02/04/2022 (received 24/04/2023, 81 days after the 02/02/2023 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 — ACTS FAST (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram · linkedin

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sarah Vilechair
• Jill Suckling
• Kerensa Butcher
• Michael Sheath
• Simone Elizabeth Walls-MacDonald

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

Operates in: Bournemouth · Devon · Dorset · Hampshire · Poole · Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Side by side with its peers

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