PARENTS IN NEED

Registered charity 1169363 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PIN

The aim of the charity is to finance specialist reports to enable children with special educational needs to access anappropriate education. Independent reports provide the parent with the necessary evidence required by the localauthority before a placement is agreed. We listen to parents of children with Special Needs and provide a service tothose who do not have the means to pay for this.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ('THE OBJECTS'?) ARE: TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF PEOPLE UNDER THE AGE 25 WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION AND ADVICE TO THEM, THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS.TO RELIEVE FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONG PARENTS, GUARDIANS AND PERSONS CARING FOR A PERSON WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS BY THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT, ADVICE AND INFORMATION FOR THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR CARE.TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH OF THOSE CARING FOR PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS WITHIN THE FAMILY OR HOME BY OFFERING PRACTICAL ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT AND SUCH OTHER SERVICES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DEEM NECESSARY WITH A VIEW TO MEETING THE EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OF THEIR CHILDREN AND IMPROVING THEIR LIVING CONDITIONS.

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

Causes: Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Merton, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £19,438 for the year, reducing its unrestricted funds from £97,564 to £78,126. The trustees maintain that reserves are kept between three and six months of expenditure and consider the going concern basis appropriate, citing adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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.

• 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
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2022 (received 01/11/2023, 1 day after the 31/10/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Safe Families for Children helps Northeast Ohio parents in need of support thelandcle.org · 18/04/2026
• Safe Families for Children continues to assist parents in need of help dakotanewsnow.com · 30/03/2018

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Brenley Trust — “Patrick Riley, Brenley Trust” (source page)
• Swire Charitable Trust — “Swire Charitable Trust” (source page)
• The Donald Forrester Trust — “The Donald Forrester Trust” (source page)
• The Albert Hunt Trust — “The Albert Hunt Trust” (source page)
• St James’s Place Charitable Foundation — “St James’s Place Charitable Foundation” (source page)
• Baily Thomas Charitable Fund — “Baily Thomas Charitable Fund” (source page)
• The Beacon Lodge Charitable Trust — “The Beacon Lodge Charitable Trust” (source page)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/08/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CATHERINE BAILEYchair
• Emilie-Kate Owen
• JOANNA BURGESS
• Marion Strudwick
• PAULINE OWEN

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

Operates in: Merton

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 SOS! SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS.

• SOS! SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS income £358k
• SPECIAL NEEDS AND PARENTS LIMITED income £925k
• OUR KIDS EYES income £134k
• LEARNING WITH PARENTS income £901k
• KIDS IN NEED income £16k
• ORPHANS IN NEED income £23.5m

Side by side with its peers

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