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The Cheer-Up Squad's services are evaluated based on feedback from beneficiaries, families, and healthcare professionals.
Based on feedback from beneficiaries, families, and healthcare professionals: reported reduced feelings of isolation; experienced relief from boredom during hospital stays
Service · Observational claim · From The Cheer-Up Squad Limited — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 October 2025, page 7
The Cheer-Up Squad's services contribute to a sense of community support beyond clinical settings.
Beyond individual outcomes, our work contributes to a wider sense of community support, ensuring that families facing illness do not feel alone and that care extends beyond clinical settings into everyday life
Service · Observational claim · From The Cheer-Up Squad Limited — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 October 2025, page 7
The Cheer-Up Squad's services are designed to be inclusive and support individuals regardless of background.
We support any individual facing illness, regardless of background, faith, or circumstance. Through our visits, we bring together children and families from different faiths and backgrounds
Service · Observational claim · From The Cheer-Up Squad Limited — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 October 2025, page 7
The Cheer-Up Squad's services are informed by lived experiences and community needs.
Our impact continues to be rooted in lived experience and shaped by the communities we serve. As a grassroots organisation, our work is informed directly by the needs of patients and families on the ground
Service · Observational claim · From The Cheer-Up Squad Limited — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 October 2025, page 7
The Cheer-Up Squad expanded its services to include active recovery programmes such as swimming and cycling.
We introduced Swimming for Recovery, delivering weekly sessions designed to support children at different stages of recovery, with separate sessions to ensure comfort and accessibility. Alongside this, our Cycling for Recovery programme has provided an inclusive, longer-term opportunity for children to build strength, coordination, and confidence.
Service · Observational claim · From The Cheer-Up Squad Limited — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 October 2025, page 5
The Cheer-Up Squad introduced VR experiences to provide immersive and therapeutic escapes for patients.
These immersive experiences offer patients a powerful form of escape, allowing them to explore new environments, relax, and momentarily step beyond the confines of illness or hospital settings.
Service · Observational claim · From The Cheer-Up Squad Limited — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 October 2025, page 4
The Cheer-Up Squad's services include bedside visits tailored to individual needs.
At the core of The Cheer-Up Squad’s work are our bedside visits, delivered consistently across hospitals, care homes, and private residences. This is the foundation of everything we do.
Service · Observational claim · From The Cheer-Up Squad Limited — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 October 2025, page 4
The Cheer-Up Squad's mission is to restore joy, dignity, and emotional relief to those facing difficult circumstances.
Our mission is to restore joy, dignity, and emotional relief to those facing some of life’s most difficult circumstances.
Policy · Policy statement · From The Cheer-Up Squad Limited — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 October 2025, page 3
The Cheer-Up Squad offers practical assistance to families facing complex challenges beyond illness.
Alongside emotional support, we recognise the importance of practical assistance. Many of the families we work with face complex challenges that extend beyond illness alone.
Service · Observational claim · From The Cheer-Up Squad Limited — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 October 2025, page 3
The Cheer-Up Squad provides emotional support through meaningful human connections.
Through meaningful human connection, we help reduce loneliness, ease anxiety, and bring moments of light into otherwise challenging days.
Service · Observational claim · From The Cheer-Up Squad Limited — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 October 2025, page 3
Ignite Life's mentoring service helped young people develop skills, raise aspirations and confidence.
Our mentoring service has supported in advancing life and relieving the needs of young people by developing skills, raising aspirations, confidence and self-esteem.
Service · Observational claim · From Ignite Life — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 17
Ignite Life's mentoring service helped young people transition from school to college and provided travel training.
Our mentoring also helps young people transition from school to college, we provided travel training to those with anxiety and challenges to increase confidence.
Service · Observational claim · From Ignite Life — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 17
Ignite Life supported an average of 105 households per week with food in the year ending December 2024.
Continued to support families in food poverty with our no-referral needed food bank. We supported on average 105 households per week with food.
Service · Observational claim · From Ignite Life — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 17
Ignite Life provided 651 one-on-one counselling sessions to 90 young people in the year ending December 2024.
Provided 651 1:1 counselling sessions to 90 young people. Of which the majority received 7 weeks of sessions and others received 12- 18 weeks.
Service · Observational claim · From Ignite Life — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 17
Ignite Life provided mentoring support amounting to 546 hours in the year ending December 2024.
Provided 546 hours of mentoring support which includes meals, activities, tuition, access to sport, wellbeing check ins, life changing opportunities, and more.
Service · Observational claim · From Ignite Life — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 17
Ignite Life's reserves policy aims to ensure its work is protected from financial disruption.
Given our objectives of supporting young people reach their potential through holistic support services, our reserves policy aims to ensure our work is protected from the risk of disruption at short notice due to lack of funds, whilst at the same time ensuring we do not retain income for longer than required.
Financial · Policy statement · From Ignite Life — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 18
Ignite Life's total expenditure for the year ending December 2024 was £128,486.
In the 12 months to 31st December 2024, the charity had a total income of £138,547 and expenditure of £128,486.
Financial · Observational claim · From Ignite Life — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 18
Ignite Life's total income for the year ending December 2024 was £138,547.
In the 12 months to 31st December 2024, the charity had a total income of £138,547 and expenditure of £128,486.
Financial · Observational claim · From Ignite Life — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 18
The charity's financial statements comply with the Charities SORP and UK GAAP.
In preparing these financial statements, the trustees are required to: select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently; observe the methods and principles in the applicable Charities SORP;
Governance · Procedural statement · From Ignite Life — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 4
The charity's financial statements were approved by the board of trustees and authorised for issue.
These financial statements have been prepared and delivered in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies' regime. These financial statements were approved by the board of trustees and authorised for issue
Governance · Procedural statement · From Ignite Life — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 7