FAMILY ACTION

Registered charity 264713 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q25169411 · Wikipedia · also known as FAMILY WELFARE ASSOCIATION, FAMILY WELFARE ASSOCIATION LIMITED, FNA

To preserve and protect the good health (in particular the mental health) of children and families, other individuals and groups within the community and to provide services, advice and grants to children, adults and families.

Objects

3.1 The objects for which the Charity is established are for the public benefit: 3.1.1 to preserve and protect the good health (in particular but not limited to mental health) and advance the education of families, individuals and groups within the community; 3.1.2 the relief of poverty; and3.1.3 the relief of those in need, by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage;in such ways as the Trustees think fit.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Registered contact address: Hackney, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £44.28m from £40.36m in the prior year, driven largely by the acquisition of Relate's business. The charity reported a net income before investment gains of £1.61m and held total funds of £24.33m at year-end, with unrestricted reserves of £9.89m exceeding the stated policy target of £3.32m.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 5 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
• 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 — Family Action (matched by registered charity number).

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Property (HM Land Registry)

6 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £3.6m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Advertised salaries (public job ads)

Roles this charity has advertised on CharityJob, matched on the exact employer name. A different source from the statutory pay bands above: these are asking salaries for vacancies, not what anyone was paid.

• Service Manager — £37,211 - £41,518 per year · Carlisle, Cumberland (On-site) · posted 1 week ago (seen 02/09/2026)
• Bid Writer — £32,635 - £36,158 per year · Remote · posted 1 week ago (seen 02/09/2026)
• Team Leader — £28,884 - £31,698 FTE per year · Wigan (On-site) · posted 2 days ago (seen 02/09/2026)
• Support Time Recovery (STR) Worker — £25,221 - £27,780 FTE per year · Wigan (On-site) · posted 2 days ago (seen 02/09/2026)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (91% 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: 1.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/10/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (21/10/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/07/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/07/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/07/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/07/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Asha Lad
• Caroline Walsh
• Charlotte Heiss
• Dez Holmes
• Ian Raymond Hargrave · trustee of 7 other charities
• Jennifer Anne Holly
• Katherine Marie Prince
• Louise Turnbull Posocco
• Makgoadi Makgoba-Turpin
• Mark Andrew Nicholas
• Melanie Williams Browne
• Philip Thomas Lloyd
• Philippa Lisa Kramer
• Philippe Michael Broadhead
• Robert Andrew Parry

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

Operates in: Isle Of Man · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

• THE FAMILY FOUNDATION income £86k
• ACTION FOR CHILDREN income £163.4m
• The Family Mediation Trust income £395k
• CHILD ACTION income £119k
• ACTION FOR FAMILY CARERS income £1.3m
• EACH COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT income £2.2m

Side by side with its peers

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