GRIEF ENCOUNTER

Registered charity 1175837 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Grief Encounter is one of the UK?s leading child bereavement charities providing pioneering services and support to bereaved children, young people and their families.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £596,026 for the year ended 31 July 2025, with total income rising to £3,036,828 from £1,652,918 in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £2,166,347, significantly exceeding the stated policy target of £775,000. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Glazers. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Grief Encounter (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dr Shelley Gilbert — Founder (source)
• Parminder Sahota — Director of Clinical Services (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £70k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~10.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (66% 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: 35.0% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/10/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/03/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anthony Bateschair
• Alan Bloom
• Claire Ballak
• David Green
• Nick Deyong
• PHANELLA FINE
• Pam Firth
• Rupert Levy
• SASHA WIGGINS
• TERRY WILLAT

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 Child Bereavement UK.

• Child Bereavement UK income £2.7m
• GRIEF TO GRACE income £292k
• BALLOONS (DEVON) income £312k
• HALO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION income £106k
• CBUK26 income £4.2m
• CHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTRE income £388k

Side by side with its peers

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