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HEADS UP KIDS

Registered charity 1205781 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Heads Up Kids is a charity providing a social and emotional wellbeing curriculum to primary schools. Heads Up Kids trains teachers to deliver this curriculum to the whole class ensuring that all children are supported with emotional literacy, emotional regulation, getting on with others and resilience. Heads Up Kids supports a whole-school approach to wellbeing.

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Latest income
£131k
Latest spending
£148k
Registered
2023
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income was £131,313 against total expenses of £148,202, resulting in a deficit for the year. The charity remains dependent on grant funding and holds unrestricted reserves of £38,496, which are below the stated policy target of approximately £42,000.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three months of core operating expenditure plus redundancy costs (held: £38k)
“The Trustees aim to build reserves sufficient to cover a minimum of three months of core operating expenditure plus redundancy costs, subject to funding volatility. This has been calculated to be approximately £42,000.” — page 17
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Heads Up Kids (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/08/2025£131k£148k
31/08/2024£183k£128k

Common questions

Is HEADS UP KIDS financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that total income was £131,313 against total expenses of £148,202, resulting in a deficit for the year. The charity remains dependent on grant funding and holds unrestricted reserves of £38,496, which are below the stated policy target of approximately £42,000. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds HEADS UP KIDS?

Funders whose own accounts filings name HEADS UP KIDS as a grant recipient include THE KRISTINA MARTIN CHARITABLE TRUST, SHORESH CHARITABLE TRUST (DR RUTH BORCHARD GIFT).

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE KRISTINA MARTIN CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£9k
SHORESH CHARITABLE TRUST (DR RUTH BORCHARD GIFT)FY2025£2kContribution towards Easy years Wellbeing Project