KIDS

Registered charity 275936 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The purpose of KIDS is to enable disabled children and young people, along with their families, to enjoy their lives, in particular we assist disabled children and young people to develop their skills and abilities and to fulfil their potential, hopes and aspirations. Our services include Home Learning, Key Working, Play and Leisure, Short Breaks, Transitions and Sibling and Young Carer Support.

Objects

(1) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AMONGST CHILDREN, YOUNG PERSONS, THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS;(2) TO PROVIDE FOR THE TRAINING AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS; (3) TO PROVIDE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE, FACILITIES FOR THE RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THE CONDITIONS OF THEIR LIVES;(4) THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE RELIEF OF DISADVANTAGES EXPERIENCED BY CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS WITH PHYSICAL OR LEARNING IMPAIRMENTS BY PROVIDING SERVICES DESIGNED TO MINIMISE THE EFFECT ON DISABLED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE OF THEIR IMPAIRMENTS AND GIVE SUCH CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEAD ORDINARY LIVES;(5) ANY OTHER PURPOSE WHICH IS EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

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 · Education/training · Disability · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £205,422 in unrestricted funds, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £4.334 million. This level of reserves equates to 121 days of expenditure, which meets the charity's stated policy target of a minimum of 90 days. The charity maintains strong financial management with net current assets of £3.85 million.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Cooper Parry Group Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission; 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 risk management 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01346252

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Claire Coussins — Executive Director – Strategy, Partnerships & Advocacy (source)
• Katie Ghose — Chief Executive (source)
• Helen Ellis — Chief Operating Officer (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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Digital Services Consortium — “The Digital Services Consortium has launched a new programme to tackle digital disadvantage and empower over 20,000 disabled children, young…” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• AYOOLA, Janet Modupeola Abike — director, appointed 08/07/2026on trustee list
• BLUCK, Marcia Elaine — director, appointed 08/07/2026on trustee list
• BEEVERS, Robert Michael — director, appointed 22/06/2026on trustee list
• ANDERSON, James — director, appointed 22/06/2026not on trustee list
• DEL VALLE PIPOLI, Luciana — director, appointed 23/03/2026not on trustee list
• CANNY, Elizabeth — director, appointed 23/03/2026on trustee list
• DEVLIN, Mark — director, appointed 30/01/2026on trustee list
• WILSON, Richard William — director, appointed 29/01/2026on trustee list
• CHRISTMAS, Jamie Graham — director, appointed 29/01/2026on trustee list
• LUND, Georgina Katherine — director, appointed 11/01/2023on trustee list
• WILLCOCKS, Sara May — director, appointed 11/01/2023on trustee list
• MARKS-WOLDMAN, Olivia — director, appointed 05/10/2022not on trustee list
• BOWERMAN, Samantha Clare — director, appointed 21/11/2017on trustee list
• CLARKE, Steven Charles — director, appointed 01/10/2017on trustee list
• GHOSE, Katie Sushila Ratna — secretary, appointed 04/11/2019

Official officers record.

CQC provider record: Kids — Registered, 9 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 21/07/2021.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (85% 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: 6.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/09/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/11/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/11/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mark Devlinchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Elizabeth Canny
• Georgina Katherine Lund
• James Andreson
• Jamie Christmas
• Janet Ayoola · trustee of 1 other charity
• Luciana Del Valle Pipoli
• Marcia Bluck
• Olivia Marks-Woldman OBE
• Richard Wilson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robert Michael Beevers
• Samantha Clare Bowerman
• Sara May Willcocks
• Steven Clarke

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

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 KIDS IN MIND.

• KIDS IN MIND income £4.2m
• KITH AND KIDS income £858k
• GET KIDS GOING income £1.8m
• KIDS MATTER income £892k
• KIDS-IN-ACTION income £443k
• KIDS CARE LONDON income £780k

Side by side with its peers

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