INDEPENDENT CHILDREN AND FAMILIES SERVICES

Registered charity 1192014 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We are a social welfare benefits charity that helps the most vulnerable members of the West Yorkshire community to help them to address their economic needs. This will will mean we engage with the community to provide welfare benefits advice and refer the appropriate members of the community to seek professional financial advice concerning any debts or physical help to address their needs.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT AND ACCESS TO FREE FINANCIAL ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE TO PEOPLE WITH DEBT-RELATED PROBLEMS LIVING IN WEST YORSHIRE AND THE WEST MIDLANDS AREA AND BEYOND WHO, THROUGH LACK OF MEANS, WOULD OTHERWISE BE UNABLE TO OBTAIN SUCH SUPPORT AND ADVICE.

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £10,949 for the year, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £20,549. This figure is below the trustees' stated policy target of maintaining reserves equivalent to three to six months of expenditure, which amounts to between £34,000 and £70,000.

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
• 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mohammmed Arshadchair
• Javid Akhtar
• Mohammed Akhtar
• Mohammed Shahid

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WELFARE BENEFITS UNIT.

• WELFARE BENEFITS UNIT income £343k
• THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY BENEVOLENT FUND income £1.6m
• CHILDREN AND FAMILIES LIMITED income £2.9m
• West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO income £478k
• INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S TRUST income £117k
• UK CARE FOR CHILDREN income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

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