YORKSHIRE ADOPTION AGENCY

Registered charity 512630 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE DONCASTER ADOPTION AND FAMILY WELFARE SOCIETY LIMITED, YORKSHIRE ADOPTION AGENCY LTD

Yorkshire Adoption Agency is a voluntary adoption agency which recruits, trains, prepares and assesses prospective adopters for children requiring new families who orignate from both the UK and overseas. We also provide a post adoption support service to families who have adopted through the agency.

Objects

To relieve the needs of children who are without families able to care adequately for them and to promote the relief and care of such children by the provision of substitute families able to meet their needs or by other means

Area of benefit: DONCASTER AND SURROUNDING AREA

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 FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £80,526 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £1,509,917. The trustees confirm that these reserves are sufficient to ensure financial stability for 12 months and allow the charity to continue operating with confidence despite reduced income trends. The independent auditor confirmed that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Holeys Limited. Discloses 4 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
• 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

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~19.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anna Scott
• Dr Jason Grimwood
• Hanora D'Rosario
• Molly Askey · trustee of 1 other charity
• Pratik Mistry
• Raymond Lloyd Powell
• Ronald Giddens
• Scott Bramall

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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