LITTLE HICCUPS

Registered charity 1170147 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

A Leeds based support group that allows the parents and families of a child with a disability the opportunity to meet people in similar situations, to make friends and support each other.Little Hiccups supports with:- Stay n Play sessions,- a monthly Family Fun Day,- Outreach,- Counselling,-Accessible Sports- Hire of All Terrain Buggies- Signposting and sharing of information

Objects

THE OBJECTS ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO SUCH PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE, INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) RELIEVING THE CHARITABLE NEEDS OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES, THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS THROUGH THE PROVISION OF A PARENT-LED SUPPORT GROUP.

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 · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Leeds, 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 £30,302 for the year, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted funds from £151,652 to £121,350. The trustees note a downturn in funding streams, although they remain proactive in securing grants and donations to support their services.

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.

• Bullying and harassment 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
• 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
• 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.

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 31/07/2023 (received 30/07/2024, 60 days after the 31/05/2024 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Little Hiccups (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• SARAH JANE STEWARTchair
• Alysia Williams
• Belinda Williamson
• Heather Mary Watson-Farrar
• JAMES JOLYON LESLIE THOMPSON
• LINSAY MARIA MEDICA
• Laura Beckett
• NOEL DAVIES-ATACK · trustee of 1 other charity
• Tracy Reece

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

Operates in: Barnsley · Bradford City · City Of Wakefield · Leeds City · Sheffield City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SMALL STEPS SFP.

• SMALL STEPS SFP income £600k
• LEEDS WEEKEND CARE ASSOCIATION income £280k
• LS29 SPECIAL NEEDS SUPPORT GROUP income £65k
• Heads Up Leicester Limited income £651k
• HETTON BUDDIES income £37k
• LITTLE SENDSATIONS income £117k

Side by side with its peers

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