PARENTING FOR LIFELONG HEALTH

Registered charity 1200313 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Organisation facilitates the design, delivery, and scale-up of evidence-based, freely available parenting solutions to promote healthy child development and wellbeing, and prevent family violence.

Objects

4.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT: 4.1.1 THE PROMOTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS (AS SET OUT BY THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND SUBSEQUENT UNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS), IN PARTICULAR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS: (C) RELIEVING THE NEED FOR VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE, (D) RESEARCH INTO HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES, (E) PROVIDING TECHNICAL ADVICE TO GOVERNMENT AND OTHERS ON HUMAN RIGHTS MATTERS, (F) CONTRIBUTING TO THE SOUND ADMINISTRATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS LAW, (G) COMMENTING ON PROPOSED HUMAN RIGHTS LEGISLATION, (H) RAISING AWARENESS ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES, (I) PROMOTING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, (J) PROMOTING RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AMONG INDIVIDUALS AND CORPORATIONS, (K) INTERNATIONAL ADVOCACY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, AND (I) ELIMINATING INFRINGEMENTS OF HUMAN RIGHTS. IN FURTHERANCE OF THAT OBJECT (CLAUSE 4.1.1) BUT NOT OTHERWISE, TRUSTEES SHALL HAVE THE POWER TO ENGAGE IN POLITICAL ACTIVITY PROVIDED THAT THE TRUSTEES ARE SATISFIED THAT THE PROPOSED ACTIVITIES WILL FURTHER THE PURPOSES OF THE CHARITY TO AN EXTENT JUSTIFIED BY THE RESOURCES COMMITTED AND THE ACTIVITY IS NOT THE DOMINANT MEANS BY WHICH THE CHARITY CARRIES OUT THE OBJECTS. 4.1.2 THE RELIEF OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS IN NEED AND PARENTS IN NEED; 4.2.3 THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS IN NEED THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR INDIVIDUAL CAPABILITIES, COMPETENCIES, SKILLS AND UNDERSTANDINGS IN SUBJECTS OF EDUCATIONAL VALUE; 4.1.4 THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL (IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY PARENTS AND CAREGIVERS OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS) ON THE SUBJECT OF PARENTING SKILLS AND CHILDREN'S RIGHTS; IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING ONLINE AND IN-PERSON RESOURCES, AND BY PROVIDING TRAINING, CONSULTANCY, MONITORING AND EVALUATION SERVICES TO ORGANISATIONS THAT SUPPORT PARENTS. 4.2 FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS CLAUSE 4: 4.2.1 "CHILDREN" MEANS PERSONS IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD WHO HAVE YET TO ATTAIN THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN YEARS. "CHILD" SHALL BE CONSTRUCTED ACCORDINGLY. 4.2.2 "ADOLESCENTS" MEANS PERSONS IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD WHO ARE BETWEEN THE AGES OF TEN YEARS AND HAVE YET TO ATTAIN THE AGE OF TWENTY YEARS." "ADOLESCENT" SHALL BE CONSTRUCTED ACCORDINGLY. 4.2.3 "CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS IN NEED" MEANS CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WHO ARE IN NEED BECAUSE OF ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, FAMILY CONFLICT OR VIOLENCE OR RISK OF FAMILY CONFLICT OR VIOLENCE OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE. 4.2.4 "CHILDREN'S RIGHTS" MEANS THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN AS SET OUT IN THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD AS ENTERED INTO FORCE BY THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON 2 SEPTEMBER 1990 (OR AS AMENDED OR RE-ENACTED FROM TIME TO TIME). 4.2.5 "PARENT" MEANS ANY PERSON WHO HAS PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR A CHILD OR ADOLESCENT OR PROVIDES CARE FOR A CHILD OR ADOLESCENT REGARDLESS OF BIOLOGICAL RELATIONSHIP. "PARENTS" SHALL BE CONSTRUCTED ACCORDINGLY. 4.2.6 "PARENT IN NEED" MEANS PARENTS WHO ARE IN NEED BECAUSE OF ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE. 4.2.7 "PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY" MEANS THE PERSON(S) WHO ASSUME ALL THE RIGHTS, DUTIES, POWERS, RESPONSIBILITIES AND AUTHORITY THAT A PARENT OF A CHILD OR ADOLESCENT HAS BY LAW. 4.2.8 "PARENTING SKILLS" MEANS THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE CAPABILITIES, COMPETENCIES, AND SKILLS OF BEING A PARENT.

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 generated a net income of £235,095 for the year ended 31 December 2024, with total turnover of £2,663,974 derived primarily from grant funding. Free/unrestricted reserves stood at £152,456, which the trustees report is in compliance with their policy to maintain approximately three months of operating expenses. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Gravita Audit Oxford LLP. Discloses 6 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• Paying staff
• 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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jamie Lachman — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Lucie Cluver — Chair (source)
• Tendai Chinyimba — Director of Operations (source)
• Cathryn Wood — Director of Strategic Partnerships (source)
• Olly Minton — Senior Director of Finance (source)
• Laurie Markle — Chief of Solutions (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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor Lucie Dale Cluverchair
• Bahbak Miremadi
• Dr Bernadette J Madrid
• Lisa Dawn Jordan
• Patrick Hoffmann
• William Maxim Renton Parr

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

Operates in: Botswana · Burma · Cambodia · Cameroon · Congo (Democratic Republic) · Czech Republic · El Salvador · Eswatini · Ethiopia · Haiti · India · Ivory Coast

Income and spending

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