TIPPYTOES BABYBANK

Registered charity 1187923 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We accept donations of preloved baby equipment, we then clean & maintain them, then through a referral system we donate to families in need/struggling. We raise funds to support us to be able to provide new toiletries, nappies, formula and maternity items , along side providing new mattresses with all cots, cotbeds, &moses baskets. We work with health professionals, education and social care

Objects

THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN PRESTON AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, BY PROVIDING ESSENTIAL ITEMS, RESOURCES AND SUPPORT TO FAMILIES WITH YOUNG CHILDREN AND/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: Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: South Ribble, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income was £48,834.47 while total expenditure was £59,688.00, resulting in a net deficit for the period. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £46,470.51, though the trustees note that no specific policy is in place for holding reserves.

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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 06/02/2024, 6 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 01/04/2022, 60 days after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rebecca McArdlechair
• Eilish Pymer
• James Wade
• Jeanette Calderbank
• Linda Ann Watson
• Susan Wade

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

Operates in: Blackburn With Darwen · Blackpool · Bolton · Cumbria · Lancashire · Wigan

Income and spending

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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 BABY BANK NETWORK.

• BABY BANK NETWORK income £104k
• TEN LITTLE TOES BABY BANK income £198k
• THE BABY BANK income £191k
• BRADFORD BABYBANK income £223k
• BABY BASICS UK income £798k
• BABIES IN BUSCOT SUPPORT income £112k

Side by side with its peers

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