Sands
Registered charity 299679 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as S A N D S, STILLBIRTH AND NEONATAL DEATH SOCIETY
Sands vision is a world where fewer babies die. Sands works to ensure that, when a baby dies, anyone affected receives the best bereavement care and support for as long as they need it. Sands offers a free UK helpline and network of support groups, works with healthcare professionals to improve bereavement care, and involves bereaved families in research to save babies lives.
Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £441,807 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total expenditure exceeding total income. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £5,358,729, representing 7.6 months of projected expenditure, which the trustees consider sufficient to maintain the charity as a going concern despite budgeted expenditure exceeding income in the coming year.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: 6-8 months of operating expenses (held: £5.4m)
“The Charity aims to maintain unrestricted reserves equal to at least 6-8 months of operating expenses.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by MHA. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Sands (matched by registered charity number).
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Clea Harmer — 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.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£4.2m
Reported reserves equal ~7.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 52.9% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (06/02/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (02/07/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Dr David Hallchair
- Antonia Frances Rose Reed
- Emily Clementine Warlof
- Emma Louise Jenkins
- Kelly Williams
- Neil Ferris
- Oluwaseyi Victoria Seerifatu Bakare
- RAJVEER CHAGGER
- Sangeeta Agnihotri
- Sarah Amio
- Sarah Threadgould
- Yue Zheng
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Czech Republic · France · Isle Of Man · Italy · Malta · Nigeria · Northern Ireland · Scotland · South Africa · Throughout England And Wales
Income and spending
Common questions
Is Sands financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £441,807 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total expenditure exceeding total income. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £5,358,729, representing 7.6 months of projected expenditure, which the trustees consider sufficient to maintain the charity as a going concern despite budgeted expenditure exceeding income in the coming year. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by MHA.
Who funds Sands?
Funders whose own accounts filings name Sands as a grant recipient include THE ASTOR FOUNDATION, DORIS FIELD CHARITABLE TRUST, DONATIONS WITH A DIFFERENCE, The Squire Patton Boggs Charitable Trust.
Known funders
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