ADOPTION MATTERS

Registered charity 512892 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ADOPTION MATTERS NORTH WEST, CHESTER DIOCESAN ADOPTION SERVICES, FORMERLY: THE CHESTER DIOCESAN BOARD OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Comprehensive Adoption Services

Objects

“4.1 The Charity’s Object is specifically restricted to the following:4.1.1 to promote the care and welfare of vulnerable children without parents or families able to look after them primarily, but not exclusively, through the provision of a high-quality adoption service with the aim of securing permanent homes and stable lives for such children; and4.1.2 in furthering the Object the Charity shall have regard to the principles of the Christian faith.”

Area of benefit: DIOCESE OF CHESTER

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: Cheshire West and Chester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £523,361 for the year, resulting in a decrease in general reserves to £639,323. The auditors identified a material uncertainty regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern due to recurring deficits and cash outflows, although the trustees maintain that adequate resources exist based on budget predictions and cost-reduction strategies.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by UHY Hacker Young. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: material uncertainty (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Adoption Matters (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £360k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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: 1.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Margaret Ann Joneschair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ANNESLEY WRIGHT · trustee of 4 other charities
• Anna Cohen
• Anne Elizabeth Fleming
• Dr Yvonne Ball
• Graham Alton
• JOSEPH JAMES MCARDLE
• Julie Elizabeth Rimmer
• Rita Therese Waters
• Robert Wilkinson
• Ryan David Oxley

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CAMBRIDGE AID.

• CAMBRIDGE AID income £135k
• ADOPTION UK CHARITY income £4.2m
• ADOPTAPAWS UK RESCUE income £147k
• CCS Adoption Ltd income £851k
• NUMBER ONE income £32k
• PUBLISH WHAT YOU FUND income £781k

Side by side with its peers

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