THE CHRIS AKED FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1177914 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We provide support to the children of families dealing with cancer and other life affecting illnesses, offering help through physical and sporting activities, counselling and memory-making days. Find out how you can help us make a difference.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF CHILDREN WHOSE FAMILIES ARE GOING THROUGH CANCER AND OTHER LIFE AFFECTING ILLNESSES, BY OFFERING PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES, COUNSELLING AND FAMILY MEMORY MAKING DAYS.

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is in a good financial position, supported by income from donations and fundraising events. However, total payments of £150,477 significantly exceeded total receipts of £68,718 during the period, resulting in a net decrease in cash funds. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £85,383 to ensure it can continue providing support.

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

What the accounts disclose

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2022 (received 01/07/2023, 62 days after the 30/04/2023 due date); year ending 30/06/2021 (received 01/05/2022, 1 day after the 30/04/2022 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Chris Aked Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• KIRSTY AKEDchair
• Damian George Magee
• JEMMA GOSLING
• LAUREN LAWRENCE
• MATTHEW JOHNS

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with KIDS CANCER CHARITY.

• KIDS CANCER CHARITY income £663k
• SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO LIMITED income £692k
• Children's Cancer North income £1.0m
• PASIC income £653k
• THE CHILDREN'S CANCER AND LEUKAEMIA GROUP income £5.5m
• THE CRYSALYS FOUNDATION income £256k

Side by side with its peers

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