PARENTS 1ST UK

Registered charity 1186445 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The CIO will develop and maintain an online knowledge hub/community that will promote and encourage the sharing of practice experiences and share free resources, accompanying guidance, research and development.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH OF PARENTS, BY PROMOTING AND DEVELOPING VOLUNTEERING AND PEER SUPPORT DURING PREGNANCY, BIRTH AND BEING A PARENT.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £800,153, resulting in a net surplus of £86,499 for the year. Unrestricted reserves rose to £389,549, which the trustees consider a healthy financial position, noting that funds over £85,000 are invested for protection. The trustees confirm there are sufficient funds to continue operating on a going concern basis.

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 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
• 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-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (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: 13.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/12/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christine Bardwell
• Christopher Lloyd Pickard
• David Allen
• Jeanette Tulloch-Jordan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Joanne Elizabeth Robins
• Laura Webber
• Paul Maynard
• Rachel Heathcock
• Veronica Emlyn

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.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PANDA PRESCHOOL PLAYGROUP CIO (YORK).

• PANDA PRESCHOOL PLAYGROUP CIO (YORK) income £115k
• PROGRAMME FOR APPLIED CHRISTIAN EDUCATION income £169k
• 1ST PLACE CHILDREN AND PARENTS' CENTRE LTD income £3.5m
• Forum CIO income £2.1m
• LEARNING WITH PARENTS income £901k
• BRAZELTON CENTRE UK CIO income £467k

Side by side with its peers

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