HOLDING ON LETTING GO

Registered charity 1191016 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Holding On Letting Go provides support to bereaved children, young people and their families, and those experiencing anticipatory grief in Kent, Medway and SE London. Holding On Letting Go has been established since 2003 under Charity No 1103835 and changed to a CIO on 25 August 2020. For previous financial information please apply to [email protected]

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF IN NEED AND PROTECT THE HEALTH OF BEREAVED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS UP TO THEIR 18TH BIRTHDAY IN THE KENT AREA BY THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT, INCLUDING SUPPORT TO THOSE AFFECTED BY ANTICIPATORY GRIEF.

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of £6,577 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted and restricted funds of £67,507. The trustees maintain a reserves policy targeting six months' running costs, which they confirm has been maintained during the year. The charity operates on a going concern basis with adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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
• Investment
• 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
• Trustee expenses 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Holding On Letting Go (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/10/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Brian Charles Downtonchair
• Anita Turner
• Kate Trevelyan
• MARGARET GALLAGHER
• Sheena Bolland
• Stephanie Nicolson

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

Operates in: Bexley · Bromley · Greenwich · Kent · Medway

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LIVING ON BEREAVEMENT SERVICE.

• LIVING ON BEREAVEMENT SERVICE income £47k
• HOLDING SPACE income £102k
• TAKE OFF income £203k
• SLIDE AWAY income £109k
• HAS TRUST income £52k
• GO TO LEISURE CIO income £704k

Side by side with its peers

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