BRIERLEY HILL BABYBANK

Registered charity 1186640 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The prevention or relief of poverty in Brierley Hill and the surrounding areas by providing essential items, resources and support to families with young children and/or to charities or other organisations who also work to prevent or relieve poverty amongst families. We provide items from 25 weeks pregnancy up to age 2 through referral services requests

Objects

THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN BRIERLEY HILL AND THE SURROUNDING AREA BY PROVIDING ESSENTIAL ITEMS, RESOURCES AND SUPPORT TO FAMILIES WITH YOUNG CHILDREN AND/OR TO CHARITIES OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WHO ALSO WORK TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY AMONGST FAMILIES

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted and designated reserves totalled £50,246.11 at the end of the year, which the trustees report equates to approximately six months of expenditure, meeting their stated policy target. The charity reported a net increase in funds, with total incoming resources of £236,679.10 against total outgoing resources of £220,704.60. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention regarding the accounts or accounting records.

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
• 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Amy Wootton · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Harris · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Dudley · Sandwell

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BROMLEY BRIGHTER BEGINNINGS.

• BROMLEY BRIGHTER BEGINNINGS income £268k
• BRADFORD BABYBANK income £169k
• FIRST DAYS CHILDREN'S CHARITY income £452k
• THE BABY BANK income £169k
• ELAYOS income £161k
• LEEDS BABY BANK income £305k

Side by side with its peers

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