ADOPTION UK CHARITY

Registered charity 1160647 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC037892 (OSCR)

Adoption UK is a membership organisation providing support, community and advocacy for all those parenting or supporting children who cannot live with their birth parents. We connect adoptive families, provide information and signposting on a range of adoption-related issues and campaign for improvements to adoption policy and legislation at the highest levels.

Objects

(A)TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC ABOUT ALL ASPECTS OF THE LEGAL ADOPTION OF CHILDREN. (B)TO PROMOTE THE CARE AND WELFARE OF POTENTIAL AND EXISTING ADOPTIVE CHILDREN WITH PARTICULAR REGARD TO SUCH CHILDREN WHO HAVE SPECIAL NEEDS PARTICULARLY BY FACILITATING THEIR ADOPTION BY SUITABLE PERSON WHO ARE ABLE TO MEET THOSE NEEDS (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 4 OF THE DECLARATION OF TRUST).

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 FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred an operational deficit of £391,374 for the year ending 31 March 2025, resulting in unrestricted reserves falling to £324,465, which is well below the trustees' policy target of approximately £1,000,000. Per the trustees' report, a material uncertainty exists regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern due to a post-year-end deficit and uncertainty over future grant income, although restructuring actions have been taken to mitigate these risks.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Thomas Coombs Limited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → material uncertainty (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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 31/03/2022 (received 05/05/2023, 94 days after the 31/01/2023 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 — Adoption UK (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Emily Frith — CEO (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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: 6.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/01/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/02/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Michael Victor REBEIROchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anju MAHBUBANI
• Anna JAQUES
• Anwen Mai Aspden
• Dr Christopher Tennyson
• Nicolette Moser

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ADOPTION MATTERS.

• ADOPTION MATTERS income £4.3m
• YORKSHIRE ADOPTION AGENCY income £760k
• CCS Adoption Ltd income £851k
• CONSORTIUM OF VOLUNTARY ADOPTION AGENCIES UK LIMITED income £236k
• ST. DAVID'S CHILDREN SOCIETY income £1.6m
• CORNERSTONE (NORTH EAST) ADOPTION AND FOSTERING SERVICE income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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