STRIPEY STORK

Registered charity 1161613 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Stripey Stork collect new and pre-loved items for babies and children and distribute them to families in need in East Surrey and surrounding areas. We do not take direct referrals and instead work with local health professionals to get the items to where they are needed most.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:(1) THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN LOCAL UK COMMUNITIES BY PROVIDING GRANTS, ITEMS AND SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND/OR CHARITIES, OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY.

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

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

Registered contact address: Reigate and Banstead, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a small unrestricted surplus of £10,440 for the year, with total unrestricted reserves rising to £221,166. Per the trustees' report, these reserves are broadly in line with the stated policy target of holding £215,000 to cover operational risks and future commitments.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Third Sector Accountancy Limited. Discloses 5 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Karen Lord — Chair of Trustees (source)
• Jenny Benfield — Treasurer and Trustee (source)
• Margarida Littlefair — Secretary and Trustee (source)
• Lynn Turner — Trustee – Human Resources (source)
• Charlotte Walker — Trustee – Commercial (source)
• Simon Talbot — Trustee - Process and Technology (source)
• Nazanin Nankali — Trustee – Inclusion and Young People (source)
• Trudy Mills — Trustee – Referral Partners and Families (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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (98% 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: 5.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• KAREN LORDchair
• Charlotte Elizabeth Walker
• Lynn Melissa Turner
• MS JENNIFER BENFIELD
• Nazanin Nankali
• Simon Talbot
• Trudy Mills

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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 THE SURREY WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED.

• THE SURREY WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED income £7.5m
• THE SURREY CARE TRUST income £2.2m
• HOME-START EAST SURREY income £217k
• 43RD BRISTOL (ST MARY MAGDALENE STOKE BISHOP) SCOUT GROUP income £176k
• THE STERRY FAMILY FOUNDATION income £126k
• KIRSTY LOUISE STREEK FOUNDATION income £43k

Side by side with its peers

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