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Happy Days Childrens Charity

A Registered Charity based in the UK

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The best identifier for this organisation is GB-CHC-1010943 .
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Description

Holidays and Leisuretime activity for children with special needs across the whole uk

Also known as

  • Happy Days
  • Happy Days (Caring for Life) Ltd
  • Happy Days Childrens Charity
  • Happy Days
  • Happy Days Children's Charity
  • Happy Days Childrens Charity
  • Happy days Children's Charity

CCEW Charity number

1010943

Company number

02639512

Registered

Postcode

Hertf ord

Website

happydayscharity.org

Domain

happydayscharity.org

Latest income

£977,520 (on )

This organisation record is based on data from Registered charities in England and Wales published by Charity Commission for England and Wales.

Happy Days Childrens Charity

GB-CHC-1010943

Locations

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Happy Days Childrens Charity

GB-CHC-1010943

Linked records

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This organisation record is part of a group of linked records that describe a single organisation. The organisation is linked to 2 active records and 0 inactive records, from 2 data sources.

The best identifier for this organisation is GB-CHC-1010943 .
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An organisation identifier is a unique piece of text that definitively identifies an organisation.

Examples include charity numbers and company numbers.

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GB-CHC gives the scheme for this identifier (Charity Commission), while 1010943 is the identifier for this organisation within the scheme.

Happy Days Childrens Charity (this record)

Organisation record from Charity Commission for England and Wales
Last updated 2024-04-25

Happy Days Childrens Charity

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Last updated 2024-04-20

Happy Days Childrens Charity

GB-CHC-1010943

Themes and activities

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This organisation has been classified using different categories:

International Classification of Non-profit and Third Sector Organizations (ICNP/TSO)

ICNP/TSO categories have been automatically assigned from a machine learning model, as part of the UK Charity Classification project.

  • Grant-making foundations H10

UK Charity Activity Tags

These tags are taken from a project to classify all UK charities using a common set of tags. The tags are applied using keyword searching, so may be incorrect for particular cases.

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  • Beneficiary group BE » Children BE102
  • Beneficiary group BE » People with disabilities BE200

Theme (CCEW)

  • General Charitable Purposes 101
  • Education/training 102
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 103
  • Disability 104
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 105
  • Arts/culture/heritage/science 109
  • Amateur Sport 110

Beneficiaries (CCEW)

  • Children/young People 201
  • People With Disabilities 203
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies 205

Activities (CCEW)

  • Makes Grants To Individuals 301
  • Makes Grants To Organisations 302

Scale of operation

  • National

Happy Days Childrens Charity

GB-CHC-1010943

Charity financial history

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Year ending Income (£) Spending (£)
1992-05-11 Registered as a charity
2004-03-31 1,015,023 952,259
2005-03-31 1,039,468 1,104,436
2006-03-31 1,119,144 1,070,311
2007-03-31 1,107,837 1,163,371
2008-03-31 1,103,824 1,091,206
2009-03-31 923,163 842,817
2010-03-31 871,370 840,466
2011-03-31 1,036,432 1,005,676
2012-03-31 1,055,166 1,057,458
2013-03-31 919,518 901,483
2014-03-31 870,311 870,498
2015-03-31 875,522 893,398
2016-03-31 901,511 921,694
2017-03-31 945,306 949,812
2018-03-31 930,398 939,857
2019-03-31 933,725 930,563
2020-03-31 886,350 871,235
2021-03-31 677,747 503,322
2022-03-31 817,358 805,891
2023-03-31 977,520 1,070,540
Income and Spending
Funds and Reserves

Data on funds and reserves are only available for financial years where the charity's income was more than £500,000.

Happy Days Childrens Charity

GB-CHC-1010943

Charity people

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2023
£
2022
£
Employees 9 9
Employees paid more than £60,000 - -
Volunteers 100 100
Trustees 4
Employees
Volunteers

Data on employees is only available for financial years where the charity's income was more than £500,000.

Happy Days Childrens Charity

GB-CHC-1010943

Statement of Financial Activities

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Statement of financial activities for year ended .

Based on information provided to the Charity Commission for England and Wales in the charity's annual return. This may not exactly match the figures and categories supplied in the charity's annual accounts.

2023
£000s
2022
£000s
Incoming resources
Donations and other voluntary income 658.4 410.3
Legacies - -
Endowments - -
Donations and legacies 658.4 410.3
Income from charitable activities 318.4 364.8
Income from other trading activities - -
Income from investments 0.6 0.1
Other income - 42.2
Total 977.5 817.4
Expenditure
Investment management - -
Other spending on raising funds 121.3 105.1
Spending on raising funds 121.3 105.1
Grants to institutions - -
Other charitable activities 810.5 572.9
Charitable activities 810.5 572.9
Other spending 138.8 128.0
Total 1,070.5 805.9
Net income / (expenditure) (93.0) 11.5

Happy Days Childrens Charity

GB-CHC-1010943

Balance sheet

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Balance sheet at .

Based on information provided to the Charity Commission for England and Wales in the charity's annual return. This may not exactly match the figures and categories supplied in the charity's annual accounts.

2023
£000s
2022
£000s
Fixed assets
Tangible and intangible assets 19.8 32.1
Investment assets - -
19.8 32.1
Current assets
Current investment assets - -
Cash 303.6 382.5
Other current assets 65.0 69.7
368.6 452.2
Creditors
Amounts falling due within one year (21.8) (18.0)
Net current assets 346.8 434.2
Total assets less current liabilities 366.7 466.3
Creditors
Amounts falling due after one year (20.9) (27.5)
Net assets 345.8 438.8
Funds
Endowment funds - -
Restricted funds 119.1 153.1
Unrestricted funds 226.7 285.7
345.8 438.8

Happy Days Childrens Charity

GB-CHC-1010943

Income from government

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2023
£
2022
£
Contracts with government
None recorded
Government grants
Income from government grants - 42,201
Government grants as % of total income - 5.2%
Number of government grants - 1

Happy Days Childrens Charity

GB-CHC-1010943

Grants received

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Received 38 grants. Showing most recent 10 grants.

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Date Funder Amount awarded Description
Halifax Foundation for Northern Ireland
Small Grants
£3,950 Trips to the theatre for children with special neds from Ireland
The National Lottery Community Fund
National Lottery Awards for All Wales
£9,944
11 months
Theatre Arts Project for children with special needs from Wales
Aug 2023 to Jul 2024
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland £1,078 Grant to Happy Days Children's Charity
John Lyon's Charity
Small Grant
£3,000
1 year
Small grant to Happy Days
Dec 2022 to Dec 2023
County Durham Community Foundation £5,000
11 months
Children in the North East
Jan 2022 to Dec 2022
The National Lottery Community Fund
National Lottery Awards for All England
£10,000
6.983606557377049 months
Respite break holidays for children with special needs and their families
Jun 2022 to Dec 2022
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland £1,000 A grant to Happy Days Children's Charity
Rothschild Foundation
Community Fund
£2,000
4 months
Grant to Happy Days Children's Charity
Oct 2021 to Feb 2022
John Lyon's Charity
Small Grant
£3,000
1 year
Small grant to Happy Days
Apr 2021 to Apr 2022
Masonic Charitable Foundation
Matched Funding
£1,250 MCF Matched Funding

Data source

Some grants data comes from funders who publish data using the 360Giving Data Standard. It was accessed using the 360Giving Datastore.

National Lottery grants data comes from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport who publish the National Lottery grants database.

This data is used under the Open Government Licence. Grants that are also published under 360Giving have been removed to ensure there is not duplication.

  • The National Lottery (3 grants) | Licence

Happy Days Childrens Charity

GB-CHC-1010943

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