SOPHIE'S LEGACY

Registered charity 1198979 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Supporting children and their families admitted to hospital. We provide food, toiletries, parent packs, family support workers, pizza nights, clothes and transport. We also advocate with the government and NHS to make national change to things like feeding parents in hospital.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROMOTE HEALTH AND TO RELIEVE THOSE SUFFERING FROM OR AFFECTED BY CHILDHOOD CANCER OR OTHER ILLNESSES INCLUDING THEIR PARENTS/GUARDIANS AND THEIR FAMILIES, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY:A. THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT TO PARENTS/GUARDIANS AND THEIR FAMILIES AND THE CHILDREN ON CHILDREN’S WARDS IN HOSPITALS IN THE FORM OF SNACKS AND TOILETRIES BOXES;B. THE PROVISION OF ART THERAPY PROVIDED BY QUALIFIED ART THERAPISTS ON CHILDREN’S WARDS AS WELL AS IN THE COMMUNITY;C. RAISING AWARENESS OF CHILDHOOD CANCER AND ACTING AS AN ADVOCATE FOR EARLIER DIAGNOSIS OF CHILDHOOD CANCER;D. IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF CHILDREN’S TIME IN HOSPITAL BY WORKING WITH OTHER ORGANISATIONS TO ADVANCE FOOD STANDARDS AND THE PROVISION OF PLAY.E. AND BY ANY OTHER MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR DISCRETION SHALL DETERMINE.

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported total incoming resources of £817,106 and held free unrestricted reserves of £272,314, which exceeds its stated policy target of maintaining six months' running costs. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified by the independent examiner.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• 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 conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Sophie's Legacy (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~6.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (91% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 20.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Fred Birkettchair
• Clare Meachin · trustee of 1 other charity
• Edward Butler
• Emma Louise Cole
• Karyn Jayne Daysh · trustee of 1 other charity
• Maria Edwards
• Matthew Charlton

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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 SOPHIE'S JOURNEY.

• SOPHIE'S JOURNEY income £112k
• SOPHIE HAYES FOUNDATION income £581k
• THE SOPHIE JANE TYLER TRUST income £403k
• SOFII FOUNDATION income £75k
• ST JOSEPH'S SOCIETY income £374k
• FOUNDATIONS: SUPPORTING FAMILIES income £336k

Side by side with its peers

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