THE RED HEN PROJECT

Registered charity 1183845 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RED HEN

We provide family support to primary age children and their families in Cambridge. We work within a multi-disciplinary framework & use a range of approaches. Objectives include improved educational attendance & performance, support with emotional & behavioural difficulties, reduced isolation, increased participation & empowerment of under served families who are often in poverty.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS/CARERS IN NORTH CAMBRIDGE BY PROVIDING SUPPORT, ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES DESIGNED TO: • DEVELOP THE CAPABILITIES, COMPETENCES, SKILLS AND UNDERSTANDING OF PARENTS/CARERS; • SUPPORT CHILDREN AND FAMILIES FACING EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIOURAL CHALLENGES; • REDUCE THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES WITH EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIOURAL CHALLENGES; • IMPROVE SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AND EDUCATIONAL PERFORMANCE; • INCREASE EMPOWERMENT AND PARTICIPATION OF HARD TO REACH FAMILIES; • IMPROVE SOCIAL INTEGRATION, ACCESS AND PARTICIPATION IN THE COMMUNITY.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cambridge, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the financial year with an overall deficit of £29,159, resulting in total funds of £173,653. Per the trustees' report, free reserves of £95,086 remain just above the stated policy minimum of £90,000, providing a buffer for operational continuity.

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

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• Conflicting interests
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• Internal risk management policy and procedures
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• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lesley Fordchair
• Christopher Parsons
• Helen Skaer
• Liezel Hanley
• Miranda Gomperts · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robert Ford
• Sara Garnham
• Sophie Evans

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE KINGS HEDGES FAMILY SUPPORT PROJECT.

• THE KINGS HEDGES FAMILY SUPPORT PROJECT income £134k
• THE CAMDEN SOCIETY income £8.5m
• TURNING THE RED LIGHTS GREEN income £1.1m
• REFLECTEEN income £280k
• FAMILY REFUGEE SUPPORT PROJECT income £255k
• PEN GREEN CENTRE income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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