THE ACTIVE PREGNANCY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1190780 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Promoting physical activity for the preservation and protection of the good physical and mental health of women who are pregnant, planning a pregnancy or who have recently given birth. The charity is based in the UK.

Objects

THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF THE GOOD PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF WOMEN WHO ARE PREGNANT, PLANNING A PREGNANCY OR WHO HAVE RECENTLY GIVEN BIRTH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF PROMOTING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY THROUGH: 1) RAISING PUBLIC AWARENESS OF BENEFITS OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY THROUGHOUT PREGNANCY AND THE POSTNATAL PERIOD PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY: • PROMOTING THE CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER’S GUIDELINES ON PHYSICAL ACTIVITY FOR PREGNANT WOMAN AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY FOR WOMEN AFTER CHILDBIRTH • DEVELOPING AND DISSEMINATING MESSAGES WHICH ENCAPSULATE LATEST RESEARCH AND SAFETY GUIDANCE, WHILST PROMOTING PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES THAT PREGNANT AND POSTNATAL WOMEN CAN DO • ILLUSTRATING BEST PRACTICE THROUGH THE ENGAGEMENT OF CASE STUDY / ROLE MODEL EXPECTANT AND NEW MOTHERS 2)WORKING WITH THE SPORTS AND FITNESS PROFESSIONALS, SPORTS INDUSTRIES AND HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE PROVISION TO PROMOTE ACCESS TO SAFE AND BENEFICIAL SPORT, FITNESS AND HEALTHY ACTIVITY BY WOMEN DURING PRECONCEPTION, THROUGHOUT PREGNANCY AND THE POSTNATAL PERIOD 3)CONDUCTING RESEARCH INTO ACTIVITY AND EXERCISE DURING PREGNANCY AND PUBLISHING THE USEFUL RESULTS 4)PROMOTING AND DEVELOPING BEST PRACTICE GUIDELINES IN THE FIELD OF ACTIVITY AND EXERCISE DURING PREGNANCY AND THE POSTNATAL PERIOD.

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

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

Latest income
£96k
Latest spending
£84k
Registered
2020
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £11,869, increasing its unrestricted reserves to £24,889. The trustees have assessed the charity's resources and concluded that it has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. The charity had no employees during the period and is governed by a board of trustees.

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

What the accounts disclose

Fundraising cost ratio: 71.1% of fundraised income, as disclosed
“Raising funds 68,278”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

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: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£96k£84k
31/03/2024£66k£56k
31/03/2023£36k£34k
31/03/2022£21k£17k
31/03/2021£72£3k

Common questions

Is THE ACTIVE PREGNANCY FOUNDATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £11,869, increasing its unrestricted reserves to £24,889. The trustees have assessed the charity's resources and concluded that it has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. The charity had no employees during the period and is governed by a board of trustees. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds THE ACTIVE PREGNANCY FOUNDATION?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE ACTIVE PREGNANCY FOUNDATION as a grant recipient include CHAPMAN CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
CHAPMAN CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£1k

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
Sport England14/07/2025£280kStrategic Partner – The Active Pregnancy Foundation