SELFA

Registered charity 1169686 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Amalgamated with Charity Number 1124020 31.03.17. SELFA supports children and families experiencing vulnerabilities, to build resilience, thrive and achieve through wellbeing programmes; peer support groups; targeted holiday workshops; trips and residential breaks. Service users live or go to school in North Yorkshire and are referred by a professional working with them or their family.

Objects

The relief of vulnerable, disadvantaged and disabled children and young people, their families and/or carers, in particular, but not exclusively, by the provision of health and wellbeing programmes, peer support groups, targeted holiday workshops and trips and residential breaks.

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 FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that SELFA reported a surplus for the year, with total income of £591,320 against expenditure of £559,850. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £493,035, which the trustees confirm equates to 10.6 months of operating costs, well within their stated policy target of 3 to 12 months.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~10.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (95% 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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/09/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/05/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (05/10/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JUDITH HOLLIDAYchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Caroline Kilvington
• Fiona Busfield
• Heather Margaret Tattersall
• Joanne Lisa Lloyd
• Judith Austin
• Laura Rowe
• Patricia Rose Lord
• SUSAN ELIZABETH BAILEY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sarah Brewer
• Timothy John Squire-Watt

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

Operates in: North Yorkshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SELBY ALMSHOUSES AND POOR'S CHARITY.

• SELBY ALMSHOUSES AND POOR'S CHARITY income £124k
• SLEEPSAFE SELBY income £102k
• THE SANDVILLE SELF HELP FOUNDATION income £419k
• SELBY HANDS OF HOPE income £348k
• GISDA CYFYNGEDIG / ARFON YOUNG SINGLE HOMELESS GROUP income £2.4m
• SYLFAEN CYMUNEDOL CYF income £136k

Side by side with its peers

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