BABY CHECK BATH CIO

Registered charity 1196275 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BABY CHECK BATH CIC

Baby Check Bath provides free osteopathic assessment and treatment for mothers and their babies up to 6 months of age. These babies and mothers are often having difficulties establishing good early feeding. We offer this service in Bath and North East Somerset. Our clinic gathers important data for research purposes and all our research projects are under the guidance of the University of Bath

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE: THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN PAEDIATRIC OSTEOPATHIC TREATMENT FOR BABIES, CHILDREN AND MOTHERS BY CONDUCTING AND CO-ORDINATING RESEARCH INTO AND EVALUATION OF PAEDIATRIC OSTEOPATHY AND ITS TREATMENT AND THE DISSEMINATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT

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

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a profit of £22,549 for the year ended 31 December 2024, with net assets increasing to £48,884. The filing confirms the accounts were prepared on a going concern basis and notes that the charity was entitled to exemption from audit under small company provisions. No reserves policy target is explicitly stated in the provided text.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Volunteer management

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The Sutherland Cranial College of Osteopathy — “Baby Check Bath gratefully receives a research grant from The Sutherland Cranial College of Osteopathy” (source page)
• Healthwatch — “Baby Check Bath (CIO) was delighted to receive Healthwatch Community Pot research funding in 2021-2022” (source page)

Trustees · trustee networks

• Peter Neil Cockhillchair
• Adrian Pearce Baker · trustee of 3 other charities
• ROBERT NEIL SIMPSON

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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