MOMENTUM CHILDREN'S CHARITY

Registered charity 1195373 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

On 30.06.2022 we converted from a Trust (Reg 1106677) to a CIO. Our activities have not changed. We support children with life challenging conditions, and their families, across London, Surrey and Sussex by providing tailored support, in hospital and at home. Copies of recent Trustee Reports and Financial Statements may be found at https://www.momentumcharity.org/about/our-impact/

Objects

TO PROMOTE, IMPROVE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER AND LIFE-CHALLENGING CONDITIONS AND THEIR FAMILIES IN LONDON AND THE SOUTH-EAST THROUGH THE PROVISION OF DIRECT SUPPORT, PRACTICAL ADVICE AND SUPPORT SERVICES AT HOME AND IN HOSPITAL AS WELL AS PROVIDING HOLIDAY HOMES FOR RESPITE, DAYS OUT AND OTHER ACTIVITIES IN THE COMMUNITY. TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND TO PRESERVE THE HEALTH OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER AND OTHER LIFE-CHALLENGING CONDITIONS AT KINGSTON HOSPITAL AND OTHER LOCAL HOSPITALS IN LONDON AND THE SOUTH-EAST BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF EQUIPMENT, FACILITIES AND SERVICES. TO OFFER BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT TO FAMILIES WHOSE CHILDREN HAVE DIED AS A RESULT OF CANCER AND LIFE-CHALLENGING CONDITIONS IN LONDON AND THE SOUTH-EAST.

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: Elmbridge, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a deficit of £78,051 for the year ended 30 April 2025, resulting in a reduction of free reserves from £636,659 to £593,051. The trustees state that reserves remain within their policy of holding four to seven months' operating costs, equivalent to six months in this case. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Warner Wilde Limited. 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
• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/04/2022 (received 20/03/2023, 20 days after the 28/02/2023 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 fundraising profile: JustGiving — Momentum Children's Charity (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sarah Woods — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Bianca — Founder CEO (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 28.2% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Graham Smithchair
• Carly Snowball
• Christopher David Johnson
• Fiona Loveless
• James Patterson
• Jenny Peat
• KIERON LYNCH · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mario Bodini
• Robert Lawrence Read
• Ron Lay
• Victor De Cruz

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

Operates in: East Sussex · Surrey · Throughout London · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• NORTHBROOK COMMUNITY TRUST income £190k
• MOMENT OF TRUTH MINISTRIES income £47k
• CANTERBURY AND DISTRICT EARLY YEARS PROJECT income £180k
• SANCTUARY FOUNDATION income £100k
• BE KIND MOVEMENT income £38k
• MAGIC MOMENTS income £144k

Side by side with its peers

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