BABY BASICS UK

Registered charity 1168099 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BABY BASICS, BABY BASICS SHEFFIELD

Baby Basics works with midwives, health visitors and other agencies to provide essential items such as equipment, clothing and toiletries to families in need for their babies and young children. Baby Basics also works with community groups around the UK to train and equip them to run similar schemes for their communities.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:- THE RELIEF OF POVERTY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE BY PROVIDING CLOTHING, TOILETRIES AND EQUIPMENT FOR BABIES, CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS/CARERS TO PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS BY REASON OF THEIR SOCIAL AND/OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES. AND/OR CHARITIES, OR OTHER ORGANISATION WORKING WITH PEOPLE IN NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS BY REASON OF THEIR SOCIAL AND/OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES.- THE RELIEF OF POVERTY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE BY PROVIDING ON-GOING TRAINING, GUIDANCE AND INFORMATION TO TEAMS RUNNING LOCALISED BABY BASICS PROJECTS.

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 · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sheffield, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £56,737 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total reserves from £297,303 to £240,566. Free unrestricted reserves stood at £54,251, which falls within the trustees' stated policy range of £30,000 to £85,000. The charity continues to operate with a network of 53 centres and has no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going 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 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
• 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Baby Basics UK (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).

• Inthallo — “Present grant funders Inthallo” (source page)
• The Society of the Holy Child Jesus — “The Society of the Holy Child Jesus” (source page)
• The Story of Christmas Appeal — “The Story of Christmas Appeal” (source page)
• The May Hearnshaw Charitable Trust — “The May Hearnshaw Charitable Trust” (source page)
• National Lottery Community Fund — “Previous funders National Lottery Community Fund” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (67% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/09/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (09/08/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Susan Lisbeth Hookchair
• Brian Wilson · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr Heledd Fflur Iago · trustee of 1 other charity
• Penelope Anne Borkett · trustee of 1 other charity
• Shona Elizabeth Penfold

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · 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 THE BABY BANK.

• THE BABY BANK income £191k
• BABY BANK NETWORK income £104k
• BABIES IN BUSCOT SUPPORT income £112k
• BABY BASICS MK income £40k
• Baby Basics Northamptonshire income £207k
• BABY NECESSITIES SOUTHAMPTON income £169k

Side by side with its peers

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