A CHILD'S HEART

Registered charity 1198934 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Our Charity operates from Birmingham, we raise money through events throughout the year to purchase gifts for Children in Orphanages, Care Homes, Refuges and vulnerable situations. We have local companies put up Charity trees with a child and requested gift where people will tack a tag with a child's gift on, purchase the gift and leave under our trees for collection by our elves to distribute

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF CHILDREN UP TO THE AGE OF 18 THAT ARE WITHIN CARE, SHELTERED ACCOMMODATION OR SUPPORTED BY SOCIAL SERVICES, VIA THE PROVISION OF GIFTS, PRIMARILY AT CHRISTMAS, INCLUDING SOFT PLAY TOYS AND EARLY LEARNING TOYS TO IMPROVE THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THOSE CHILDREN.

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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Registered contact address: Sandwell, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased to £6,044 at the period end, supported by total income of £53,925 against total expenditure of £51,102. The trustees report a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2025 (received 02/11/2026, 2 days after the 31/10/2026 due date); year ending 31/12/2022 (received 22/12/2023, 52 days after the 31/10/2023 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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David John Armstrong
• Julie Marie Armstrong
• Russell Lewis
• Theresa Rosaleen Rigby

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 YOUNG AT HEART.

• YOUNG AT HEART income £68k
• FRIENDS OF BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN'S TRUST income £271k
• THE LORD MAYOR OF BRISTOL'S CHRISTMAS APPEAL FOR CHILDREN income £88k
• HEART OF ENGLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £13.6m
• Canvas income £170k
• THE LISS HEART CHARITY TRUST income £4k

Side by side with its peers

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