ASHLEY'S BIRTHDAY BANK

Registered charity 1161258 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Providing for families in poverty,domestic violence, human trafficking, neglect, abuse etc with food, toys, birthday & Christmas gifts, clothing, furniture, toiletries, household items, white goods etc. Our referrals come from Social Workers, Police Liaison Officers, the local Refuges, Pastoral Care Workers etc. We run it in our spare time so every penny/item donated goes to the families in need

Objects

THE PREVENTION AND RELIEF OF POVERTY OF CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES IN DORSET AND SURROUNDING AREAS, PRINCIPALLY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF GIFTS TO CHILDREN IN NEED.

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that total incoming resources were £36,875.02 against total expenditure of £36,658.43, resulting in a small surplus. Free reserves at the end of the period were £21,267.37, which the trustees monitor closely given the lack of guaranteed regular funding.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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 policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• 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 — Ashley's Birthday Bank (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).

• Tesco — “Thank you to everyone who voted for us in the latest Tesco Grant Scheme (Blue Tokens) We received the most tokens, so are going to get a don…” (source page)
• Charles Trent — “Thank you so much to Charles Trent for choosing us as one of their charities to support this year. We are so grateful that local companies c…” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANNALISA CARNEY
• DANIELLE PARSONS
• LYNN HEWITT

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

Operates in: Bournemouth · Dorset · Poole

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BABY BANK NETWORK.

• BABY BANK NETWORK income £104k
• ASHLEY CHURCH income £32k
• THE BABY BANK income £191k
• BIRTHDAY HOUSE TRUST income £256k
• BRIERLEY HILL BABYBANK income £237k
• BECOMING FAMILIES income £77k

Side by side with its peers

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