BIRMINGHAM PHAB CAMPS

Registered charity 502073 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We are a Voluntary Organisation that provides holidays aimed at creating inclusive and diverse friendships for all children, with and without disabilities, living throughout the Birmingham area. We are staffed entirely by volunteers. We arrange a series of holidays for groups of twenty (50% disabled) young people aged 8 to 16, in various age groups, during the summer holidays.

Objects

TO INTEGRATE THE SOCIAL AND LEISURE-TIME ACTIVITIES OF BOTH PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED AND ABLE-BODIED YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE SO TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 2 OF GOVERNING INSTRUMENT.)

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated at a deficit, with total incoming resources of £98,068 against expenditure of £119,312, leading to a decrease in total funds of £21,244. Accumulated funds as of 31st October 2025 amounted to £55,089. The trustees anticipate an overspend of £20,600 for the upcoming year, which would leave reserves at £34,489.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

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• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
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• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Emma Louise Spittlechair
• ANTHONY RATE
• Grant McCaig
• JENNIFER HARDY
• Susan Diane Dunigan

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

Operates in: Birmingham City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SEVEN UP CHARITY.

• SEVEN UP CHARITY income £197k
• HESWALL DISABLED CHILDREN'S HOLIDAY FUND income £108k
• BASECAMP ADVENTURE TRUST income £245k
• THE BIRMINGHAM BOYS AND GIRLS UNION income £404k
• FRIENDS OF BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN'S TRUST income £271k
• DERBY KIDS' CAMP income £107k

Side by side with its peers

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