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Registered charity · Marston Green

Family Society

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £2.8m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where
Throughout England
Website
www.adoptionfocus.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Family Society
Registered
2009

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.8m£2.7m
  • 2024£2.6m£2.6m
  • 2023£3.3m£2.6m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.4m£2.1m
  • 2021£2.3m£1.8m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2024: Government contracts 71%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1 THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND SUFFERING BY THE PROVISION OF SUCH GRANTS, GOODS, SERVICES OR FACILITIES AS THE CHARITY SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE2 THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND PRESERVATION OF HEALTH3 THE SUPPORT, RELIEF AND CARE AND, THE PROMOTION THEREOF, OF* CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITHOUT FAMILIES TO CARE FOR THEM, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ADOPTION AND FOSTERING SERVICES* INDIVIDUALS AND COUPLES SEEKING TO ADOPT AND/OR FOSTER CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE* FAMILIES COMPRISING ADOPTED AND FOSTER CHILDREN* CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE* THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE* THE CARERS OF THOSE INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS SPECIFIED IN PARAGRAPHS 3.1.3.1, 3.1.3.2 AND 3.1.3.5* INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES, COMMUNITIES AND GROUPS WHO ARE IN NEED; AND* THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP4 TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATIONAL OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, ILL-HEALTH, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE; AND5 ANY ACTIVITY WHICH IS CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAWS OF ENGLAND, SAVE THAT IF ANY ACTIVITY IS UNDERTAKEN IN SCOTLAND OR NORTHERN IRELAND, SUCH ACTIVITY SHALL ALSO BE CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAWS OF THE JURISDICTION IN WHICH SUCH ACTIVITY IS UNDERTAKEN

Grants received

2 grants · £78,962 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Comic Relief · £69,050
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £9,912

Most recent

  • Comic Relief £69,0502021-04-28
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,9122012-02-09
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

6 trustees on the board

6y median 4y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

16y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

Portfolio (3)

6
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 6General Charitable Purposes 6The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 6

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Health and social care 17Professional services 4Arts and leisure 3

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£2.8m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

9.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 8.4 in 2021

46 from 34 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1129095
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 03 APRIL 2009 as amended on 27 Jan 2022
Companies House
Company number 06869556 · Active
Contact on the register
02077696741 · info@adoption-focus.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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