The Children's Grief Charity

Registered charity 1175837 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GRIEF ENCOUNTER

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.

Objects

2.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:2.1.1 THE PROMOTION OF GOOD HEALTH BY THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING INTO:(A) ISSUES OF GRIEF AND BEREAVEMENT; AND (B) SUPPORT IN RELATION TO GRIEF AND BEREAVEMENT, IN EACH CASE, PARTICULARLY FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AND THEIR FAMILIES.2.1.2 RELIEF OF PEOPLE, PARTICULARLY CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AND THEIR FAMILIES, SUFFERING FROM GRIEF OR BEREAVEMENT, INCLUDING RELIEF BY WAY OF A HELPLINE.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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

Registered contact address: Barnet, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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 31/07/2024 (received 03/06/2025, 3 days after the 31/05/2025 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 — 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 4.7 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 5.3%) (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

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

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
• CHILDREN CARE CENTRE income £231k
• THE GOOD GRIEF TRUST income £60k
• THE CHILDREN'S FAMILY TRUST income £9.7m
• CHILDREN'S RESPITE TRUST income £403k
• CHILDREN'S AID income £377k

Side by side with its peers

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