MAMA TO MAMA

Registered charity 1202438 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Mama to Mama is the first and only baby bank service available in Thanet, providing essential newborn baby items to vulnerable pregnant people. Our bespoke care packages provide all the baby items a new parent needs and consists solely of preloved donations from our community and in-kind contributions. We work with social & care workers/stakeholders throughout the district to make referrals.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:THE PREVENTION OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONG PEOPLE LIVING OR WORKING IN KENT, BY PROVIDING SUCH PERSONS WITH BABY CLOTHING AND OTHER ESSENTIAL ITEMS WHICH THEY COULD NOT OTHERWISEAFFORD THROUGH LACK OF MEANS.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Thanet, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity raised £220,825 in income and ended the year with a stronger financial position and improved liquidity. The trustees report that the charity established a more robust reserves policy, with a risk-based reserve level of £78,000 as of March 2026. The filing indicates that this reserve level provides a sounder financial foundation for the continued delivery of charitable activities.

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 4 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• 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)

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Mama to Mama (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• Hayley Jane Corkerchair
• Eilidh Macpherson
• Jessica Lawson
• Joanne Susan Gover
• Miles Tipping
• Sean Edward O'Brien

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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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 MAMA2MAMA BABY ESSENTIALS.

• MAMA2MAMA BABY ESSENTIALS income £260k
• PROJECT MAMA income £288k
• THE NEST PROJECT income £130k
• TEN LITTLE TOES BABY BANK income £198k
• MAMA NA MTOTO UK income £28k
• INTO THE COMMUNITY income £415k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.