DAISY'S DREAM

Registered charity 1177145 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Daisy's Dream is a professional support service which responds to the needs of children and families affected by life threatening illness or bereavement. We offer a flexible service which is tailored to meet the individual needs of each child and their family. This may include telephone support and advice, group events, home and school visits for the child or young person.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the period was £504,689 against expenditure of £494,717, resulting in a surplus. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £350,746, which the trustees note is slightly above their policy target of six months' operating costs. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention regarding the accounts.

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.

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

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). 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 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~8.5 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 (69% 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: 33.6% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/03/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/06/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (18/07/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Guilechair
• Anne Entwistle
• David Wood
• Joshua Picken
• Katherine Green
• Porscha Davies
• STEPHEN BENNETT
• Sarah Bowsher
• Sean Hatton

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

Operates in: Bracknell Forest · Reading · Slough · West Berkshire · Windsor And Maidenhead · Wokingham

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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