SMILING FAMILIES

Registered charity 1183860 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as vibe 25 Radio

Providing support and friendship to families with a member affected by serious/terminal illness or disability,through activities,group sessions,financial support and wish granting. Specialising is Christmas visits to families unable to travel to Lapland or a local grotto due to their health issue,by bringing a mobile grotto to their homes.

Objects

TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF THOSE AFFECTED BY SERIOUS / TERMINAL ILLNESS THROUGH ACTIVITIES, DAYS OUT, SHORT BREAKS, RESPITE AND PRACTICAL SUPPORT AND FRIENDSHIP.

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: Solihull, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that Smiling Families held unrestricted reserves of £2,000, which the trustees identified as an agreed amount to cover basic support sessions in case of funding difficulties. The charity reported gross income of £31,350 and total payments of £26,850 for the period, resulting in a net surplus. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention during the examination of the accounts.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• 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
• 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.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• kerry martin-Beadeschair
• Mark Loveland
• Owen Martin-Beades
• Paul Martin-Beades
• leslie Eacock

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Coventry City · Solihull

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 SPREAD A SMILE.

• SPREAD A SMILE income £2.2m
• SMILING FACES PRE-SCHOOL income £133k
• JOSEPH'S SMILE income £169k
• SMILE GROUP income £281k
• THE SMILES AND MEMORIES (S.A.M) FUND income £72k
• SPREADING SMILES FOUNDATION income £34k

Side by side with its peers

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