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.

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

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.

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 4.8 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 5.2%) (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 · trustee of 1 other charity

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

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

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• KIDS income £9.4m
• KIDZ KLUB BRIGHTON & HOVE income £235k
• KIDS CARE LONDON income £780k
• JUST KIDDING income £132k
• BBC CHILDREN IN NEED income £61.0m
• LIFE FOR A KID FOUNDATION income £177k

Side by side with its peers

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