THE HAPPY BABY COMMUNITY

Registered charity 1181633 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Happy Baby Community provides practical and emotional support to new and expectant mums who have fled from traffickers or violence, and have sought international protection in the UK for themselves and their babies

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE1. TO PRESERVE AND PROMOTE THE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH OF PREGNANT WOMEN AND WOMEN AND GIRLS, WHO HAVE CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 5 YEARS, WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED PHYSICAL OR MENTAL ILL HEALTH OR DISABILITY AS A RESULT OF VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS, TORTURE, HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND ABUSE2. TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL AND OTHER FORMS OF RELIEF FOR REFUGEES AND THOSE SEEKING INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION, IN PARTICULAR MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS.3. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF PEOPLE IN NEED THEREOF SO AS TO ADVANCE THEM IN LIFE, BUILD SELF-CONFIDENCE, BASIC SKILLS AND AN ABILITY TO MAKE AN IMPACT UPON THEIR OWN LIVES AND ASSIST THEM TO ADAPT WITHIN A NEW COMMUNITY

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £1,191,655 against total expenditure of £1,200,295, resulting in a net expenditure for the year. The charity holds total funds of £371,225, comprising £210,924 in unrestricted funds and £160,301 in restricted funds, which the trustees consider sufficient to sustain activities for at least twelve months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Third Sector Accountancy Limited. Discloses 5 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (98% 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: 3.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• SABRINA SIMONE BALSchair
• Andrena Winifred Mary Cumella
• Catherine Margaret Sullivan
• David Noble
• Katherine Letley Waterfall
• PENELOPE HELEN FARRAR
• Polly Armstrong-Beaver
• Raperin Almohammad
• SARAH ELIZABETH HUGHES
• Tamar Natsvlishvili

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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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

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BECOMING FAMILIES.

• BECOMING FAMILIES income £77k
• BABY BANK NETWORK income £104k
• FREE TO FLY income £53k
• THE BABY BANK income £191k
• THE BELAY FOUNDATION income £118k
• PREGNANCY CENTRES NETWORK income £101k

Side by side with its peers

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