THE SPECIAL LIONESS

Registered charity 1187356 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Based in North East offering support groups, holiday play groups, events. Giving families a safe place to meet and enable families living outside the local area an opportunity to connect with others in similar situations. Creating a safe and accessible place to explore and enable some form of socialisation with other families in the same situation and allow siblings to interact with other siblings

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Latest income
£163k
Latest spending
£138k
Registered
2020
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided document is a Trustees' Annual Report and does not contain the financial statements or notes required to assess the charity's financial health. Consequently, no data on reserves, income, expenditure, or liabilities is available for analysis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Special Lioness (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Cumbria · Durham · Gateshead · Hartlepool · North Tyneside · South Tyneside · Sunderland

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£163k£138k
31/03/2024£65k£71k
31/03/2023£58k£39k
31/03/2022£18k£18k
31/03/2021£12k£6k

Common questions

Is THE SPECIAL LIONESS financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The provided document is a Trustees' Annual Report and does not contain the financial statements or notes required to assess the charity's financial health. Consequently, no data on reserves, income, expenditure, or liabilities is available for analysis.

Who funds THE SPECIAL LIONESS?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE SPECIAL LIONESS as a grant recipient include THE GRAND LODGE OF MARK MASTER MASONS' FUND OF BENEVOLENCE.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE GRAND LODGE OF MARK MASTER MASONS' FUND OF BENEVOLENCEFY2025£24kGrant to other charities

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
Community Foundation North East12/03/2026£2kGrant to The Special Lioness
Community Foundation North East12/02/2026£2kGrant to The Special Lioness
Community Foundation North East16/01/2025£9kGrant to The Special Lioness
Community Foundation North East19/12/2024£5kGrant to The Special Lioness
The National Lottery Community Fund28/05/2024£15kThe Roaring Rainforest
Postcode Lottery29/04/2024£19kUnrestricted Funding
The National Lottery Community Fund16/06/2023£5kSensory on the Sea
Sport England27/03/2022£2kJubilee Fund - SEND Dance School
The National Lottery Community Fund03/09/2021£5kParent Carer Support Group

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 ISLAMIC SOCIETY FOR WALES.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
THE SPECIAL LIONESS£163k—0unclear—no doubt
ISLAMIC SOCIETY FOR WALES FY2025£265k—0unclear—no doubt
NORTH LONDON PARTNERSHIP CONSORTIUM LIMITED FY2025£368k—0unclear—no doubt
LIFE TRUST CARDIFF FY2025£139k—0unclear—no doubt
INDEPENDENT CHOICES GREATER MANCHESTER FY2025£224k—0unclear—no doubt
WEST MOOR RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION FY2025£129k—0unclear—no doubt

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