CHILD FIRST TRUST

Registered charity 1158410 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Child First Trust is a charitable company ltd by guarantee. Our charities objects are 'the advancement of education of vulnerable children within Child First Schools by providing and assisting in the provision of non statutory activities and services'.We achieve these objects by delivering and commissioning a range of programmes including Family Support Work, Speech Therapy, Counselling etc.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF VULNERABLE CHILDREN WITHIN CHILD FIRST SCHOOLS BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF NON STATUTORY ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES.

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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Registered contact address: Tendring, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £6,951 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £70,656 to £63,705. The trustees note that while reserves are low, the charity has minimal overheads and no long-term commitments such as loans or rental agreements. The independent examiner confirmed that the accounts comply with applicable requirements and no matters were identified that would cause concern.

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
• 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

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 31/05/2023 (received 07/05/2024, 37 days after the 31/03/2024 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 09053347

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Child First Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• ARROWSMITH, Paul Ian — director, appointed 06/10/2021on trustee list
• SMITH, Jane Elizabeth — director, appointed 27/10/2019on trustee list
• FRENCH, Clare — director, appointed 29/01/2016not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Claire French
• Jane Smith
• Paul Arrowsmith
• Tracy Zoltan

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

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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 CHILD FIRST (UK).

• CHILD FIRST (UK) income £52k
• THE CHILDHOOD TRUST income £3.3m
• FIRST DAYS CHILDREN'S CHARITY income £452k
• THE CHILDREN'S FAMILY TRUST income £9.7m
• CHRIST FIRST WATFORD income £142k
• ONE TO ONE CHILDREN'S FUND income £2.0m

Side by side with its peers

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