WHIZZ-KIDZ

Registered charity 802872 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE MOVEMENT FOR NON-MOBILE CHILDREN (WHIZZ-KIDZ), WHIZZ KIDZ · also registered in Scotland as SC042607 (OSCR)

THE PRINCIPLE OBJECTS ARE TO CHANGE THE LIVES OF MOBILITY-IMPAIRED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE UK. BY PROVIDING THEM WITH THE BEST POSSIBLE MOBILITY EQUIPMENT, TRAINING AND ADVICE, THE CHARITY GIVES THEM THE INDEPENDENCE TO LIVE A LIFE OF FREEDOM. WHIZZ-KIDZ ALSO RAISES AWARENESS OF THE IMPORTANCE OF MOBILITY FOR CHILDREN THROUGH NATIONAL CAMPAIGNING AND INFLUENCING ACTIVITIES.

Objects

“For the public benefit in the UK: • to relieve the needs and improve the lives of young wheelchair users and their families and carers; and • to promote the social inclusion of young wheelchair users by empowering them to be independent, including without limitation by providing them with the best possible wheelchairs and mobility equipment and support and confidence-building experiences.”In these objects young wheelchair users means children and young people aged up to 25 years requiring mobility assistance.

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.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Southwark, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity made an overall loss of £138,000 for the year, with total income dropping to £7.09 million. Total reserves fell to £2.25 million, with free unrestricted reserves at £0.925 million, which is below the stated policy target of six months of operating expenditure.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MHA. 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
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Whizz Kidz (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The Barratt Foundation — ““The Barratt Foundation and employees nationwide are extremely proud to have raised and donated over £2.1million for Whizz Kidz. We are so p…” (source page)
• Poundland Foundation — ““Whizz-Kidz does an incredible job supporting wheelchair users, and we’re so proud of the long-standing relationship we’ve built the charity…” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram · linkedin

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (60% 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: 26.0% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anne Gordon
• Arunima Misra
• Daniel Mathews
• Fiona Elizabeth McSwein
• Jo Tanner
• Neil Edwards
• Stephen John Ingham CBE · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GET KIDS GOING.

• GET KIDS GOING income £1.8m
• JUST KIDZ LONDON income £225k
• KIDS-IN-ACTION income £443k
• VIZNITZ LIMITED income £702k
• WIZZ KIDS PRE-SCHOOL income £448k
• BUSY BEEHIVE income £82k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.