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Registered charity · Newport

Dreams and Wishes

  • 3 trustees
  • Income £632k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.dreamsandwishescharity.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Dreams and Wishes
Registered
2012

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£632k£176k
  • 2024£195k£121k
  • 2023£1.1m£202k
Earlier years
  • 2022£290k£245k
  • 2021£126k£124k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO RELIEVE CHILDREN SUFFERING FROM SERIOUS OR TERMINAL ILLNESS AND THE FAMILIES OF SUCH CHILDREN BY SUCH CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY GRANTING FINANCIAL AID TO THOSE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF THOSE CHILDREN WHO HAVE BEEN REFERRED TO THE CHARITY SUPPORTING SPECIALIST MEDICAL CARE AFFORDED OR REFERRED TO THE CHARITY BY MEANS OF FINANCIAL AID OR OTHERWISE TO CREATE DREAMS AND WISHES FOR CHILDREN WHO ARE SERIOUSLY OR TERMINALLY ILL TO CREATE SPECIAL MEMORIES FOR BOTH CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF THOSE CHILDREN.THE CHARITY WILL OPERATE THROUGHOUT ENGLAND & WALES

Grants received

1 grant · £1,500 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

Most recent

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.

3 trustees on the board

14y median 14y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

1
company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 3The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 3The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 3

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

Other services 1Professional services 1Property 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together
  • Small board - little cover if a trustee leaves

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£632k 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.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 77.3 in 2021

0
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
1145648
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 07 NOV 2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 20/01/2012
Companies House
Company number 07836910 · Active
Contact on the register
07831289333 · info@dreamsandwishescharity.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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