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Windmills - Preparing Youngsters For The Death Of A Loved One

RegisteredRegistered charity number 1187408Stoke-On-TrentDisability
Income£103k2025-03-30
Spending£86ksame year
Spent / received90%5-year average
Size in its cause66th pctDisability
Registered2020CIO
Employees–latest return

Analysis

Windmills - Preparing Youngsters For The Death Of A Loved One is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Stoke-On-Trent. It was registered in January 2020, 6 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, disability and other charitable purposes, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it provides services and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Windmills - Preparing Youngsters For The Death Of A Loved One reported income of £103k and spending of £86k, spending 83% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £25k to £103k (+318%), an average of +43% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 139%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Windmills - Preparing Youngsters For The Death Of A Loved One sits at the 66th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Newleaf Foundation (£103k), The Ellesmere Centre Charitable Trust (£103k) and Little Hiccups (£103k).

Income and spending

£0£39k£77k£116k£154k2021 Income: £24,7032021 Spending: £6,23920212022 Income: £32,4942022 Spending: £14,24720222023 Income: £64,5792023 Spending: £88,96020232024 Income: £154,4082024 Spending: £145,88120242025 Income: £103,2682025 Spending: £85,7742025
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Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

To preserve and protect the physical, emotional and mental health of Children & Young People when someone significant in their life is dying or has died, by providing bespoke, focused and supportive acute bereavement care.Windmills differs from any other Child Bereavement Charity as it solely focuses on supporting Children (0-24 years) through the acute dying process and after death has occurred

Similar-sized charities, same cause

CharityLocationIncome
Newleaf FoundationBeswick£103k
The Ellesmere Centre Charitable TrustNewmarket£103k
Little HiccupsLeeds£103k
Haddenham Baptist ChurchCambridgeshire£103k