TRANSFORMING FUTURES - SUFFOLK

Registered charity 1169250 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Promoting the need for foster carers and adopters and providing practical advice on ways to welcome and support families who foster, adopt and provide special guardianship within Suffolk churches.Providing social events and groups to ensure families who foster adopt or special guardian care are connected with each other, regardless of faith and background.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES AS SET OUT IN THE STATEMENT OF BELIEFS, TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF AND ADVANCE IN LIFE CHILDREN WHO HAVE BEEN, OR MAY BE, ADOPTED, FOSTERED OR PLACED IN CARE INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) ENCOURAGING CHRISTIANS TO ADOPT AND/OR FOSTER VULNERABLE CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, EQUIPPING CHURCHES TO SUPPORT FOSTER CARERS AND ADOPTIVE FAMILIES, EQUIPPING LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND FOSTERING/ADOPTION AGENCIES TO ENGAGE MORE EFFECTIVELY WITH CHURCHES AND CHRISTIANS AND CONNECTING FAMILIES WHO FOSTER OR ADOPT IN THE SUFFOLK REGION FOR BEFRIENDING AND SUPPORT.

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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Registered contact address: Ipswich, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £16,791 for the year ended 31 August 2025, bringing total net assets to £31,714. Per the trustees' report, the current level of free reserves is £21,884, which exceeds the designated reserve policy target of £13,000. The trustees consider the charity's current financial position to be healthy and have confirmed adequate resources to continue operations.

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• GRAHAM PETER ABBOTTchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Julie Daniels
• Rachel Renfrew

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

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FIELDS CHURCH.

• FIELDS CHURCH income £117k
• SUFFOLK REFUGEE SUPPORT income £769k
• THE SUFFOLK HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST income £276k
• SHEFFIELD FUTURES income £1.3m
• THE SOUTHWOLD TRUST income £54k
• SUFFOLK CLERGY CHARITY income £40k

Side by side with its peers

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