THE TOY APPEAL

Registered charity 1179080 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We accept financial donations via our just giving website. We buy all the presents via Toy Wholesalers. We raise awareness via social media & our web site. We work with social workers, drop in centres and schools to identify children in need of our help. All year we create Christmas sacks & and distribute the toy sacks in December, in time for Christmas.

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Latest income

£132k

Latest spending

£265k

Registered

2018

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity supported over 9,000 children in 2025 and has provided toy sacks to 75,000 children to date. The trustees declare that resources are adequate to purchase toys with wholesalers early in the following year, noting that approximately 99% of toys are purchased while only 1% are donated. All staff and trustees involved with the charity are volunteers.

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Toy Appeal - Give a Child a Christmas (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

DEE DRAKEchair
Angela Kinder
CHRISTINE TANN YEATES
CHRISTOPHER JOHN DRAKE

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

Operates in: Bolton · Bury · Cheshire East · Lancashire · Manchester City · Oldham · Rochdale · Salford City · Stockport · Wigan

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£132k	£265k
31/12/2024	£312k	£153k
31/12/2023	£258k	£336k
31/12/2022	£263k	£167k
31/12/2021	£166k	£145k

Common questions

Is THE TOY APPEAL financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity supported over 9,000 children in 2025 and has provided toy sacks to 75,000 children to date. The trustees declare that resources are adequate to purchase toys with wholesalers early in the following year, noting that approximately 99% of toys are purchased while only 1% are donated. All staff and trustees involved with the charity are volunteers. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds THE TOY APPEAL?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE TOY APPEAL as a grant recipient include THE EQUILIBRIUM FOUNDATION, THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PAULS, WILFORD HILL.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE EQUILIBRIUM FOUNDATION	FY2025	£20k	Christmas Lunches / Toy Appeal
THE EQUILIBRIUM FOUNDATION	FY2022	£16k	raise money for toy sacks for underprivileged children
THE EQUILIBRIUM FOUNDATION	FY2023	£13k	Christmas toy sacks for underprivileged children
THE EQUILIBRIUM FOUNDATION	FY2024	£10k	Providing toy sacks to underprivileged children (matched funding from Equilibrium Foundation)
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PAULS, WILFORD HILL	FY2022	£280