DAD'S HOUSE

Registered charity 1172419 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

a) Support single fathers (and the children and families) struggling to cope with the challenges of single parenthood by providing practical and emotional support, counselling, advice, mentoring, referrals to support organisations, education and parenting training;b) relieve the financial hardship of single fathers by providing referrals to childcare providers and free legal advice providers

Objects

(1) THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:(A) THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY OR NEED FOR THE BENEFIT OF SINGLE PARENTS (IN PARTICULAR SINGLE FATHERS) AND THEIR CHILDREN, BY:(I) PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION, ADVICE, PRACTICAL AND EMOTIONAL SUPPORT, MENTORING AND COUNSELLING; AND (II) PROVIDING REFERRALS TO TEMPORARY HOUSING LANDLORDS AND FREE LEGAL ADVICE PROVIDERS;(B) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF SINGLE PARENTS (IN PARTICULAR SINGLE FATHERS) WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH SERVICES OR FACILITIES BY VIRTUE OF THEIR POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN PARENTING SKILLS; AND(C) THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY BY THE PROVISION OF FOOD AND ESSENTIAL ITEMS TO PEOPLE IN NEED.

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Kensington and Chelsea, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £499,098, with unrestricted reserves of £499,098 and restricted funds at zero. The trustees report a low financial risk, citing stable income from donations and grants, and note that the charity is a going concern with reserves comfortably maintained.

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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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 31/03/2021 (received 01/02/2022, 1 day after the 31/01/2022 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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Greggs Foundation — “We are extremely grateful to all those who have given grants to Dads House to enable us to provide our services Greggs Foundation” (source page)

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~10.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (82% 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: 6.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Grant Tilbury
• Kareem Osmani
• Stuart Phillip Browning

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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 THE FATHERHOOD INSTITUTE.

• THE FATHERHOOD INSTITUTE income £474k
• THE PARENT HOUSE TRUST income £374k
• THE DASH CHARITY income £824k
• FATHER'S HOUSE CHURCH, ROTHERHAM income £81k
• TATE HOUSE PLAYGROUP income £233k
• INDEPENDENT DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES income £7.8m

Side by side with its peers

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