Charity registration number: 287866 **CHILDREN IN NEED FUND TRUSTEES' REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2025** ## **Children in Need Fund Contents** ||**Page**| |---|---| |Trustees' Report|1—2| |Independent Examiner's Report|3| |Statement of Financial Activities|4| |Statement of Financial Position|5| |Notes to the Financial Statements|6—9| |The following pages do not form part of the statutory accounts:|| |Detailed Statement of Financial Activities|10| **Children in Need Fund Trustees' Report For The Year Ended 31 January 2025** The trustees present their report and the financial statements for the year ended 31 January 2025. ## **Objectives and Activities** ## **Aims and Objectives** The trustees have considered the Charity Commission's guidance on public benefit, including the guidance 'public benefit: running a charity (PB2)'. ## **Reference and Administrative Details** ## **Trustees** Mr David Sloane Mr Mark Allen ## **Charity Number** 287866 ## **Principal Address** Office 015 30 Great Guildford Street, Borough London SE1 0HS ## **Independent Examiner** Sloane & Co LLP Chartered Certified Accountants & Business Advisors Office 015 30 Great Guildford Street, Borough London SE1 0HS Page 1 **Children in Need Fund Trustees' Report (continued) For The Year Ended 31 January 2025** The trustees' report was approved by the board of trustees and signed on its behalf by: David Sloane Mr David Sloane Trustee 27 November 2025 Page 2 **Children in Need Fund Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of Children in Need Fund For The Year Ended 31 January 2025** I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Children in Need Fund (the Trust) for the year ended 31 January 2025. ## **Responsibilities and Basis of Report** As the charity trustees of the Trust you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. ## **Independent Examiner's Statement** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect: 1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required by section 130 of the Act; or 2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or 3. the accounts do not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and contents of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a 'true and fair view' which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Sloane & Co LLP Sloane & Co LLP 27 November 2025 Chartered Certified Accountants & Business Advisors Office 015 30 Great Guildford Street, Borough London SE1 0HS Page 3 ## **Children in Need Fund Statement of Financial Activities For The Year Ended 31 January 2025** |**Notes**
**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM:**
Donations and legacies
**3**
Investments
**4**
**EXPENDITURE ON:**
Raising funds
**5**
**NET (EXPENDITURE)/INCOME BEFORE INVESTMENT**
**(LOSSES)/GAINS**
Net gains/(losses) on investments
**NET (EXPENDITURE)/INCOME**
**NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS**
**RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS:**
Total funds brought forward
**TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD**
**9**|**2025**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
16,934
16,727|**2024**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
84,560
13,101| |---|---|---| ||33,661|97,661| ||(64,859)|(68,822)| ||(31,198)
120,020|28,839
(38,183)| ||88,822|(9,344)| ||88,822
1,244,046|(9,344)
1,253,390| ||1,332,868|1,244,046| The notes on pages 6 to 9 form part of these financial statements. Page 4 ## **Children in Need Fund Statement of Financial Position As At 31 January 2025** |**Notes**
**FIXED ASSETS**
Investments
**8**
**CURRENT ASSETS**
Cash at bank and in hand
**NET CURRENT ASSETS (LIABILITIES)**
**TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES**
**NET ASSETS**
**FUNDS OF THE CHARITY**
Unrestricted Funds
**TOTAL FUNDS**
**9**
On behalf of the board|**2025**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
1,327,163|**2024**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
1,227,143| |---|---|---| ||1,327,163
5,705|1,227,143
16,903| ||5,705
5,705|16,903
16,903| ||1,332,868|1,244,046| ||1,332,868|1,244,046| ||1,332,868|1,244,046| ||1,332,868|1,244,046| |||| David Sloane Mr David Sloane Trustee 27 November 2025 The notes on pages 6 to 9 form part of these financial statements. Page 5 **Children in Need Fund Notes to the Financial Statements For The Year Ended 31 January 2025** ## 1. **General Information** Children in Need Fund is an unincorporated charity registered with the Charity Commission, registered charity number 287866. The principal address is Office 015, 30 Great Guildford Street, Borough, London, SE1 0HS. ## 2. **Accounting Policies** ## 2.1. **Basis of Preparation of Financial Statements** The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102) "Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019)", Financial Reporting Standard 102 "The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland" and the Charities Act 2011. Children in Need Fund meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS 102. Assets and liabilities are initially recognised at historical cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant accounting policy note(s). ## **Statement of cash flows** The Trustees have taken advantage of the exemption in SORP FRS 102 from including a cash flow statement in the financial statements on the grounds that the charity is small. ## 2.2. **Incoming Resources** All incoming resources are included in the statement of financial activities when the Charity is entitled to the income and the amount can be quantified with reasonable accuracy. The following specific policies are applied to particular categories of income: Voluntary income is received by way of grants, donations and gifts and in included in full in the statement of financial activities when receivable. Grants where entitlement is not conditional on the delivery of a specific performance by the charity, are recognised when the charity becomes unconditionally entitled to the grant. Donated services and facilities are included at the value to the charity where this can be quantified. The value of services provided by volunteers has not been included. Gifts donated for resale are included as incoming resources within activities for generating funds when they are sold. Income from investments in included in the year in which it is receivable. ## 2.3. **Resources Expended** Liabilities are recognised as resources expended when there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the Charity to the expenditure: Expenditure is recognised on an accrual basis as a liability is incurred. Expenditure includes any VAT which cannot be fully recovered and is reported as part of the expenditure to which relates. Cost of generating funds comprise the costs associated with attracting voluntary income and any costs of trading for fundraising purposes including the investment costs. Charitable expenditure comprises those costs incurred by the charity in the delivery of its activities and services for its beneficiaries. It includes both costs that can be allocated directly to such activities and those costs of an indirect nature necessary to support them. Support costs are those incurred directly in support of expenditure on the objects of the charity and include project management Page 6 ## **Children in Need Fund Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) For The Year Ended 31 January 2025** ## 3. **Income from Donations and Legacies** |3.
**Income from Donations and Legacies**|||| |---|---|---|---| |Donations and gifts
4.
**Investment Income**
Bank interest receivable
Interest from investments
5.
**Analysis of Expenditure**
Raising funds
Raising funds|**Activities**
**undertaken**
**directly**
**£**
63,513|**2025**
**Unrestricted **
**funds**
**£**
16,934|**2024**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
84,560| |||**2025**
**Unrestricted **
**funds**
**£**
329
16,398|**2024**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
3,122
9,979| |||16,727|13,101| |||**Support**
**costs**
(see note 6)
**£**
1,346
**Support**
**costs**
(see note 6)
**£**
459|**2025**
**Total**
**£**
64,859| ||**Activities**
**undertaken**
**directly**
**£**
68,363||**2024**
**Total**
**£**
68,822| Page 7 **Children in Need Fund Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) For The Year Ended 31 January 2025** 6. **Support Costs** |General administration
General administration
7.
**Average Number of Employees**
Average number of employees during the year was: 2 (2024: 2)
8.
**Investments**
**Cost or Valuation**
As at 1 February 2024
Revaluations
Transfers
As at 31 January 2025
**Provision**
As at 1 February 2024
As at 31 January 2025
**Net Book Value**
As at 31 January 2025
As at 1 February 2024|**2025**
**Raising**
**funds**
**£**
1,346| |---|---| ||**2024**
**Raising**
**funds**
**£**
459| ||**Listed**
**£**
1,227,143
120,020
(20,000)| ||1,327,163| ||-| ||-| ||1,327,163| ||1,227,143| Page 8 **Children in Need Fund Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) For The Year Ended 31 January 2025** ## 9. **Movement in Funds** |**Unrestricted funds**
General:
General unrestricted fund
**Total funds**
**Unrestricted funds**
General:
General unrestricted fund
**Total funds**|**As at 1**
**February**
**2024**
**£**
1,244,046|**Income**
**£**
33,661|**Expenditure**
**£**
55,161|**As at 31**
**January**
**2025**
**£**
1,332,868| |---|---|---|---|---| ||1,244,046|33,661|55,161|1,332,868| ||**As at 1**
**February**
**2023**
**£**
1,253,390|**Income**
**£**
97,661|**Expenditure**
**£**
(107,005)|**As at 31**
**January**
**2024**
**£**
1,244,046| ||1,253,390|97,661|(107,005)|1,244,046| ## 10. **Transactions with Trustees** None of the trustees received any remuneration or any other benefits from an employment with the charity or a related entity during the current or previous year. No trustee expenses have been incurred. ## 11. **Related Party Disclosures** There have been no related party transactions in the reporting period that require disclosure. Page 9 ## **Children in Need Fund Detailed Statement of Financial Activities For The Year Ended 31 January 2025** |**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM:**
**Donations and legacies**
Donations and gifts
**Investments**
Interest from other current asset investments - listed
Bank interest receivable
**EXPENDITURE ON:**
**Raising funds**
Grants given
Computer software, consumables and maintenance
Bank charges
**NET (EXPENDITURE)/INCOME BEFORE INVESTMENT (LOSSES)/GAINS**
**Net gains/(losses) on investments**
Fair value surplus/(deficit) on revaluation of investments
**NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)**|**2025**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
16,934|**2024**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
84,560| |---|---|---| ||16,934
16,398
329|84,560
9,979
3,122| ||16,727|13,101| ||33,661
(63,513)
(1,288)
(58)|97,661
(68,363)
(400)
(59)| ||(64,859)|(68,822)| ||(64,859)|(68,822)| ||(31,198)
120,020|28,839
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