ABBY'S HEROES

Registered charity 1170676 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Supporting children, teenagers, young adults and their families, across the South Coast of England, having been diagnosed with cancer, and being treated at Southampton General Hospital. We offer financial and practical support through grant giving, and also we help families with the opportunity to make some family memories.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND SUFFERING AND THE PROMOTION OF HEALTH OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS DURING AND AFTER THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF CANCER BY THE ONCOLOGY DEPARTMENTS AT SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL, AND THEIR FAMILIES, BY THE PROVISION OF PRACTICAL AND FINANCIAL HELP INCLUDING SUPPORT FOR MEMORY MAKING

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 · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Fareham, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £53,203 for the year, which was managed by drawing upon existing reserve funds to ensure continuity of operations. The trustees confirmed that the accounts are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue. Total net assets stood at £497,224, comprising unrestricted, designated, and restricted funds.

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
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Abby's Heroes (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/11/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~8.1 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 (98% 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: 25.3% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/12/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/11/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alexandra Clare Wood
• Antony Waghorn
• Helen Green
• KATHRYN MARY GOODYER
• Kiele Carter
• Lorna Ford
• Louise Hewlett
• Lynne Squibb

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

Operates in: Dorset · Hampshire · Isle Of Wight · West Sussex · Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HEART HEROES.

• HEART HEROES income £262k
• HOLLYS HEARTS income £128k
• ALFIE'S WISH income £173k
• ABBOTS BROMLEY HOSPITAL income £52k
• THE AMAZONS BREAST CANCER SUPPORT GROUP income £29k
• ALBIE SUGDEN FOUNDATION income £81k

Side by side with its peers

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