Dreams and Wishes

DREAMS AND WISHES IS A CHARITY DEDICATED TO HELPING SERIOUSLY ILL CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

Elsewhere

• Throughout England and Wales

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 30 November 2025, it had income of £632,119 and spent £175,634.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Up 401%, from £126,128 in the year to 30 November 2021 to £632,119 in the year to 30 November 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 28% of its income in the year to 30 November 2025. It spent less than its income in each of the 5 years shown.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 30 November 2025: Not reported. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

These figures were read from the accounts the charity filed with the Charity Commission by Claude, an AI model, in OpenEconomy's accounts reader. AI can misread a table, so check the accounts on the register before relying on a figure.

Only funding the accounts name with an amount is included. Most charities also have income from donations, fees and trading that is not listed by funder, so this is part of its income.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 1 grant to this charity, worth £1,500, awarded in 2025.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

Council business that names this charity, from the records councils publish, gathered by OpenCouncil. Newest first.

• 18 September 2024, Newport

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Greater Gwent Cremation Joint Committee

  Manager's Report

  Read the meeting record

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3 trustees run the charity.

• Bridget AtkinsonAppointed 3 December 2013
• Jonathan Charles CollingborneAppointed 26 January 2012
• Tony Curtis MBEAppointed 10 November 2011

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1145648

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

26 January 2012

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 07 NOV 2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 20/01/2012

Company number

07836910This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.dreamsandwishescharity.orgAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Newport

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Funding from accounts: the charity's filed accounts, read by OpenEconomy's AI accounts reader on 1 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• In council meetings: councils' published meeting records, gathered by OpenCouncil and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 4 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: council records that name this charity
• OpenCouncil: Newport Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Newport's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Casnewydd Islwyn