BROMLEY BRIGHTER BEGINNINGS

Registered charity 1210626 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide new and second-hand baby- and child-related clothing, equipment and essential household itemsto families in need; to provide information to families in financial hardship to enable them to access support available from other charities and organisations; to raise awareness about the level of poverty in LB Bromley and the impact of such poverty on the lives of children and their parents

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO (“THE OBJECT”) IS THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY OF FAMILIES WITH DEPENDENT CHILDREN IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF BROMLEY IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY: (1) PROVIDING NEW AND SECOND-HAND BABY- AND CHILD-RELATED CLOTHING AND EQUIPMENT AND ESSENTIAL HOUSEHOLD ITEMS TO FAMILIES IN NEED; (2) PROVIDING INFORMATION TO FAMILIES IN FINANCIAL HARDSHIP TO ENABLE THEM TO ACCESS SUPPORT AVAILABLE FROM OTHER CHARITIES AND ORGANISATIONS; AND (3) RAISING AWARENESS ABOUT THE LEVEL OF POVERTY IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF BROMLEY AND THE IMPACT OF SUCH POVERTY ON THE LIVES OF CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS.

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £20,482 for the year ended 31 July 2025, with total income of £267,925 against total expenditure of £288,407. Closing unrestricted reserves were £72,893, which the trustees confirm meets their policy of maintaining three to six months' expenditure. The trustees expressed a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2025 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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 — Bromley Brighter Beginnings (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• West Kent Freemasons — “A recently awarded £15,000 grant from the West Kent Freemasons is providing our work with babies and young children aged 0 to 5 over the nex…” (source page)
• Big Yellow Self Storage — “BBB are very grateful to our supporters Big Yellow Self Storage www.bigyellow.co.uk” (source page)

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• EMMA MARTINchair
• Emma Jane Warren
• Eva Fiz Querol
• Josephine Kench
• Kerriann Rawley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lorelei Catherine Freeman
• Michael Feely

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

Operates in: Bromley

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 THE JAMES BRINDLEY FOUNDATION LTD.

• THE JAMES BRINDLEY FOUNDATION LTD income £122k
• THE BRADLEY LOWERY FOUNDATION income £408k
• BROMLEY 'Y' income £3.0m
• BRIGHTER FUTURE INITIATIVE income £30k
• THE BROMLEY TRUST income £334k
• BROMLEY FAMILY LINK income £119k

Side by side with its peers

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