INSTITUTE OF INTEGRATED SYSTEMIC THERAPY

Registered charity 286909 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHILDHOOD FIRST, PEPER HAROW FOUNDATION

Childhood First (previously called the Peper Harow Foundation) provides integrated programmes of care, education and treatment to children and young people who are suffering the consequences of neglect and emotional, physical and sexual abuse. Activities are centered on five residential communities with attached schools and a placement and family support programme.

Objects

3.1 The objects of the Charity are, for the public benefit, to:3.1.1 deliver and further the care, education and treatment of children and young people who have experienced psychological and emotional trauma; and3.1.2 promote and deepen the understanding and knowledge of the ways in which the causes and effects of adverse early childhood experiences may be reduced and their consequences ameliorated.

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.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £569,375 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £11.6 million primarily generated from local authority placements. Unrestricted general reserves stood at £5.8 million, while total designated and restricted reserves brought the overall fund balance to £12.5 million. The trustees confirmed the organization is a going concern with no material uncertainties.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 3 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
• 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Henrietta Hughes OBE — Chair (source)
• Gary Yexley — 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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• London Value Investor Conference — “In 2019 we were chosen by the London Value Investor Conference as their Charity of the Year. They donated a percentage of delegate fees whic…” (source page)
• Talbot Underwriting — “Similarly, we have previously been selected as Charity of the Year by Talbot Underwriting who encouraged their staff to take part in challen…” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold); recorded price paid £940k. 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 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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: 0.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anna Dinh
• Dr Henrietta Hughes OBE FRCGP
• Gary Etheridge
• George Viney
• Georgia Chataway
• PATRICIA PHILLIPS
• Rosemary Bodiam
• SANJAY SHAH · trustee of 2 other charities
• Sarah Scarratt

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

Operates in: 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 CHILD FIRST (UK).

• CHILD FIRST (UK) income £52k
• 1ST PLACE CHILDREN AND PARENTS' CENTRE LTD income £4.3m
• CHILD FIRST TRUST income £222k
• OUR KIDS FIRST income £386k
• PEMBROKESHIRE PEOPLE FIRST income £719k
• KIDS INSPIRE income £2.4m

Side by side with its peers

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