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/

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the financial year with a deficit of £78,051, resulting in a reduction of free reserves from £636,659 to £593,051. Per the trustees' report, this drawdown was within tolerance and part of a strategic plan to sustain services during a period of transition, with reserves remaining at six months of operating costs. The charity reports that internal challenges have been addressed and the team is fully resourced, indicating a manageable financial position despite the deficit.

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 3 of 6 completeness components.

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 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 28.2% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (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
• 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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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FIVE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES TRUST LTD.

• FIVE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES TRUST LTD income £2.3m
• MILESTONES CHILDCARE LIMITED income £313k
• ALEXANDER DEVINE CHILDREN'S CANCER TRUST income £2.8m
• MOTHER AND CHILD WELFARE ORGANISATION income £288k
• EVELINA CHILDREN'S HEART ORGANISATION LIMITED income £332k
• THE CHILDREN'S CANCER AND LEUKAEMIA GROUP income £5.5m

Side by side with its peers

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