PETE'S DRAGONS

Registered charity 1187394 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Pete's Dragons provide immediate and specialist bereavement support across the county of Devon for all of those affected by suicide, whether it is an individual or a whole family, with no age limitation.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND ARE AS FOLLOWS:• TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF THOSE AFFECTED BY SUICIDE AT WHICHEVER STAGE; POST-VENTION, INTERVENTION OR PREVENTION; AND• THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND SUFFERING OF THOSE AFFECTED BY SUICIDE.NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CIO FOR THE PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005 AND SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008.

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 · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: East Devon, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £16,323 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total funds decreasing to £435,244. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves were £409,407, which is slightly below the stated policy target of £398,528 required to cover six months of expenditure. The trustees consider the charity to be in a strong financial position with adequate reserves despite the deficit.

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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures

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 fundraising profile: JustGiving — Pete's Dragons (matched by registered charity number).

Public-sector contracts awarded

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (69% 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: 20.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/01/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Abigail Hearn
• David Brian Partlow
• Hymani Martinez
• Philip Hill
• Tim Nand-Lal

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

Operates in: Devon

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PENDRAGON COMMUNITY TRUST.

• THE PENDRAGON COMMUNITY TRUST income £198k
• THE PEERTALK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £81k
• SUICIDE CRISIS income £12k
• THE DOVE SERVICE income £562k
• Helping Herts income £277k
• SOUTH DEVON CATS REHOMING income £103k

Side by side with its peers

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