FLAT FRIENDS UK

Registered charity 1168730 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FFUK, Flat Friends

Flat Friends supports ladies who have had, or are facing mastectomy and who live or are considering living without reconstruction. We support online and in face to face groups. We also liaise with Breast nurses and other professionals to advise them of our services to their patients. We also work to raise awareness among the wider public, to try and change the stigma of living without one, or both

Objects

THE RELIEF OF WOMEN IN THE UK WHO HAVE HAD OR MAY FACE MASTECTOMY AND WHO LIVE OR ARE CONSIDERING LIVING WITHOUT BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; IN PARTICULAR, (BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY) BY PROVIDING INFORMATION, ADVICE, AND RAISING AWARENESS AMONG HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS AND THE WIDER PUBLIC.

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 generated a deficit of £9,206 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted reserves from £38,751 to £29,546. The trustees confirm that the charity has sufficient funds to continue its charitable activities and that the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate. The charity has no employees and no related party transactions were disclosed.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Flat Friends UK (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carolyn Lisa Garritt
• Dr Nicola King
• Odile Wittemans
• Onajite Oluwatosin Riamah

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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