01 Identity
Registration and reporting
- Registration status
- Registered
- Reporting status
- Submission Received
- Charity type
- Trust
- Registered
- 27 February 2019
- Removed
- Not supplied
- Financial period
- 1 June 2025 – 31 May 2026
- Latest income
- £11,463
- Latest expenditure
- £9,250
- Gift Aid
- Yes
- Owns or uses land
- No
- In administration
- No
- Insolvent
- No
- CIO
- No
Public contact address: 35 Claughton Street, KIDDERMINSTER, Worcestershire, DY11 6PU
Website recorded by the regulator: www.hugs.org.uk (displayed as text)
02 Activities
What the charity does
The purpose of the charity is to provide support & guidance to families who have experienced the loss of a baby at any stage of pregnancy, around the time of birth or shortly after.We offer peer support groups, one to one support, non talking therapies & provide memory boxes to hospitals so that parents can make memories with their baby before saying goodbye.
03 Official extract
Charity Annual Return History
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 June 2025
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 May 2026
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR26
- Reporting Due Date
- 31 March 2027
- Date Annual Return Received
- 4 October 2026
- Total Gross Income
- £11,463
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £9,250
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 June 2024
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 May 2025
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR25
- Reporting Due Date
- 31 March 2026
- Date Annual Return Received
- 4 July 2025
- Total Gross Income
- £8,676
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £9,173
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 June 2023
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 May 2024
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR24
- Reporting Due Date
- 31 March 2025
- Date Annual Return Received
- 17 September 2024
- Total Gross Income
- £5,945
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £7,023
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 June 2022
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 May 2023
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR23
- Reporting Due Date
- 31 March 2024
- Date Annual Return Received
- 29 November 2023
- Total Gross Income
- £6,620
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £6,812
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 June 2021
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 May 2022
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR22
- Reporting Due Date
- 31 March 2023
- Date Annual Return Received
- 10 October 2022
- Total Gross Income
- £9,309
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £6,063
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Charity Annual Return Parta
- Latest Fin Period Submitted Ind
- Yes
- Fin Period Order Number
- 1
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR26
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 June 2025
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 May 2026
- Ar Due Date
- 31 March 2027
- Ar Received Date
- 4 October 2026
- Total Gross Income
- £11,463
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £9,250
- Grant Making Is Main Activity
- No
- Charity Has Trading Subsidiary
- No
- Does Trustee Receive Any Benefit
- No
- Trustee Payments Acting As Trustee
- No
- Trustee Receives Payments Services
- No
- Trustee Receives Other Benefit
- No
- Trustee Resigned Employment
- No
- Count Volunteers
- 15
05 Official extract
Charity Area Of Operation
- Geographic Area Type
- Region
- Geographic Area Description
- Throughout England
- Welsh Ind
- No
06 Official extract
Charity Classification
- Classification Code
- 207
- Classification Type
- Who
- Classification Description
- The General Public/mankind
- Classification Code
- 306
- Classification Type
- How
- Classification Description
- Provides Services
- Classification Code
- 101
- Classification Type
- What
- Classification Description
- General Charitable Purposes
07 Official extract
Charity Event History
- Charity Name
- HUGS
- Charity Event Order
- 1
- Event Type
- Standard registration
- Date Of Event
- 2019-02-27T00:00:00
08 Official extract
Charity Governing Document
- Governing Document Description
- TRUST DEED DATED 06 AUG 2018AS AMENDED ON 14 JAN 2019 as amended on 27 Mar 2019
- Charitable Objects
- FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH OF AND RELIEVE PHYSICAL OR EMOTIONAL DISTRESS AMONGST PARENTS AND FAMILIES AFFECTED BY THE DEATH OF A BABY, THROUGH PREGNANCY LOSS, STILLBIRTH, NEONATAL DEATH OR AS AN INFANT BY OFFERING CARE AND SUPPORT THROUGH THE PROCESS OF GRIEVING IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT SERVICES TO SUCH PERSONS.
09 Official extract
Charity Policy
- Policy Name
- Internal risk management policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Volunteer management
- Policy Name
- Complaints handling
- Policy Name
- Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
- Policy Name
- Conflicting interests
- Policy Name
- Safeguarding policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Complaints policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Risk management