THE CHILDREN'S FAMILY TRUST

Registered charity 208607 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CFT, THE CHILDREN'S FAMILY TRUST LIMITED

The relief of children and young persons in need, and in particular those in the care of, or accommodated by, a long authority;The relief of poverty and in particular the assistance of adults who have as children been in local authority care.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS IN NEED, AND IN PARTICULAR THOSE IN THE CARE OF, OR ACCOMMODATED BY, A LOCAL AUTHORITY, BY PROVIDING THEM WITH, OR OTHERWISE ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF, A PLACEMENT OR PLACEMENTS IN SUITABLE ACCOMMODATION A0ND PROVIDING THEM WITH OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF, APPROPRIATE CARERS, WITH THE AIM OF PROVIDING THEM WITH A STABLE FAMILY LIFE PROVIDING FOR THEIR EDUCATION AND ESTABLISHMENT IN LIFE AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND IN PARTICULAR THE ASSISTANCE OF ADULTS WHO HAVE AS CHILDREN BEEN IN LOCAL AUTHORITY CARE

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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

Registered contact address: Bromsgrove, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income surplus of £434,318 for the year ended 31 December 2025. The trustees confirm that free reserves of £3,253,460 are held, which is below the stated policy target of six months of unrestricted expenditure. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Cognitor Accountancy Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

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 — The Children's Family Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Marina Mullholland — Chief Executive (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

6 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (6 freehold); recorded price paid £1.9m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (88% 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: 72.8% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALECIA FORREST-OLIVER
• DALE WILLIAMS
• Dr VALERIE WIGFALL
• Ian Andrew Brazier
• Margaret Hine
• NICHOLAS ANTHONY HARRISON
• Robert Porter
• Tom Gormley

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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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CHILDRENS FOUNDATION LIMITED.

• THE CHILDRENS FOUNDATION LIMITED income £563k
• FIVE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES TRUST LTD income £2.3m
• THE CHILDHOOD TRUST income £3.3m
• FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE income £1.5m
• CHILDREN AND FAMILIES LIMITED income £2.9m
• CHILDREN CARE CENTRE income £231k

Side by side with its peers

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