CCS Adoption Ltd

Registered charity 286814 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CATHOLIC CHILDREN'S SOCIETY (DIOCESE OF CLIFTON), CCS Adoption, CLIFTON CATHOLIC CHILDREN'S SOCIETY, CLIFTON CHILDREN'S SOCIETY

The Society offers a comprehensive adoption service that includes recruiting, assessing and preparing adoptive families for some of the most vulnerable children in the UK, supporting child and family throughout the adoption process and beyond; working with birth parents who may be considering adoption for their child and providing counselling services to adopted people and their relatives.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE WELFARE OF CHILDREN IN NEED FROM ALL BACKGROUNDS, CULTURES AND ALL FAITHS OR NONE, BY:3.1.1. FURTHERING THEIR APPROPRIATE CARE AND SAFETY3.1.2. PROVIDING ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT TO THEM, THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS3.1.3 ADVANCING THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL, SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL AND SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT, RESPECTING THEIR RACIAL, CULTURAL AND SPIRITUAL HERITAGE, SO THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED

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: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a net expenditure of £328,544 for the year, resulting in a decrease in net assets from £1,157,447 to £828,903. The trustees state that actual free reserves of £523,684 were below the stated policy target of £670,253, yet they remain confident that reserves are sufficient to provide uninterrupted services. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Randall & Payne LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2025) to "below" (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed by this site.

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.

What the charity says about itself (2024/25)

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sally Lockwood — Chair of Trustees (source)
• Emma Simpson — CEO (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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~5.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (86% 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: 4.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/12/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ross Newmanchair
• Andrew Stephen Lord
• Dr Emma Bradley
• Elizabeth Manning · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lavern Amete Mason
• Maria Connolly
• RICHARD TIDSWELL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ryan Relf-Jones
• Tessa Chan

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Bristol City · Gloucestershire · North Somerset · Somerset · South Gloucestershire · Swindon · Wiltshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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 ADOPTION MATTERS.

• ADOPTION MATTERS income £4.3m
• ADOPTION UK CHARITY income £4.2m
• CORNERSTONE (NORTH EAST) ADOPTION AND FOSTERING SERVICE income £1.2m
• THE CATHOLIC CHILDREN'S SOCIETY (WESTMINSTER) income £3.4m
• FAMILY SOCIETY income £2.8m
• CHILDCARE AND BUSINESS CONSULTANCY SERVICES income £2.5m

Side by side with its peers

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