Boxes of Sunshine

The relief of need of chronically ill young people in the United Kingdom by providing a Box of Sunshine, which is a postal box containing items that are specially selected for a young person with a chronic illness. Items will include, but are not limited to, bubble bath, lip balm, fluffy socks, sunflower seeds for planting, sweets and a card game.

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

Elsewhere

• Throughout England and Wales
• Scotland
• Northern Ireland

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 30 June 2025, it had income of £11,694 and spent £6,188.

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 93%, from £6,044 in the year to 30 June 2023 to £11,694 in the year to 30 June 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 53% of its income in the year to 30 June 2025. It spent less than its income in each of the 3 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 June 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.

No grants to this charity appear in 360Giving data.

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.

6 trustees run the charity.

• Joanne DunbarAppointed 1 September 2022
• Katie Isobel HillAppointed 10 December 2025
• Katie Regine ChapmanAppointed 10 December 2025
• Kevin HillAppointed 10 March 2022
• Lynsey HillAppointed 10 March 2022
• Rebekah BristoweAppointed 1 September 2022

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

Of the last 3 annual returns that were due, 3 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

1199287

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

13 June 2022

Governing document

CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 13 Jun 2022

Website

www.boxesofsunshine.co.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Wrexham

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there, as loaded by OpenEconomy.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

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