HELP THE CHILD

Registered charity 297790 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Help the Child raises funds through a number of events throughout the year, with the purpose of providing items of specialist equipment and educational toys for children with special educational needs, physical disability or sensory impairment within Somerset.

Objects

TO RELIEVE SICKNESS SUFFERING AND DISTRESS OF MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN RESIDENT IN SOMERSET AND AVON BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN PROVIDING AIDS CALCULATED TO REDUCE THE SICKNESS SUFFERING AND DISTRESS OF SUCH CHILDREN

Area of benefit: SOMERSET

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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Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity carried forward a balance of £21,508.16 at the end of the financial year. The trustees expressed confidence that the charity can continue as a going concern, noting that all funds raised are directed towards purchasing equipment for children.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Help the Child (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Angela Jane Webber
• Annette Stimpson
• Carol Anne Hicks
• Claire Margaret Thomas
• Hazel Ann Gough
• KAREN JANE BRENNER
• Louise Alexandra Allen
• NICHOLA ROSE WOOD
• Nicola Gail Sucksmith
• Sally Gordon Holl
• Stephanie June Sampson
• Susan Katherine Godfrey

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

Operates in: Somerset

Income and spending

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Known funders

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