NUMBER EIGHT(TAMWORTH)

Registered charity 1179171 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The relief of those in need in particular young mothers (and expectant mothers) through the management of safe and secure accommodation for their benefit with the aim to ensure and develop their good health and wellbeing (of both mother and their babies) and life skills including through education, training, employment, self care and home care in the Tamworth area of Staffordshire.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED IN PARTICULAR YOUNG MOTHERS (AND EXPECTANT MOTHERS) THROUGH THE MANAGEMENT OF SAFE AND SECURE ACCOMMODATION FOR THEIR BENEFIT WITH THE AIM TO ENSURE AND DEVELOP THEIR GOOD HEALTH AND WELLBEING (OF BOTH MOTHER AND THEIR BABIES) AND LIFE SKILLS INCLUDING THROUGH EDUCATION, TRAINING, EMPLOYMENT, SELF CARE AND HOME CARE.

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £101,833 for the year ended 31 March 2025, increasing its unrestricted reserves to £305,546. The trustees report that total assets were sufficient to fund activities and that the organization secured a mortgage for its property in August 2024. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters were identified during the examination of 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 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
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Number Eight Tamworth (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 (1 freehold); recorded price paid £350k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Carl Wayne Ford
• Deborah Brayshaw
• Eleanor Poole
• IAN WILLIAM PERKINS · trustee of 2 other charities
• Jacqueline Elaine Chambers
• Jane Helen Maugham
• Lee David Chetwynd
• Osburga Zetilda Widney
• Victoria Anne Vernon · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Staffordshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE EIGHT FOUNDATION.

• THE EIGHT FOUNDATION income £143k
• MOTHER TO MOTHER LIMITED income £274k
• Safe Steps income £1.7m
• WOTTON ARTS PROJECT income £102k
• MOTHER AND CHILD WELFARE ORGANISATION income £288k
• SAVE THE MOTHERS TRUST (SMT) income £596k

Side by side with its peers

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