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Registered charity · Middlesex

Shooting Star Children's Hospices

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £13m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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Public contracts won

1 contract

From Contracts Finder and Find a Tender, the UK Government's public procurement notices, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Matched to this organisation by company number, charity number or exact name and postcode; every figure links to its source notice.

About

What it does
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where
Throughout London, Surrey
Website
www.shootingstar.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Shooting Star Children's Hospices
Registered
1994

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£13m£12m
  • 2024£12m£11m
  • 2023£11m£9.8m
Earlier years
  • 2022£9.6m£7.7m
  • 2021£10m£8.8m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 5% · Government grants 14%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF ILLNESS IN SUCH WAYS AS THE ASSOCIATION SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT BY ESTABLISHING, MAINTAINING AND CONDUCTING RESIDENTIAL NURSING AND CONVALESCENT HOMES FOR THE RECEPTION AND CARE OF YOUNG PERSONS.

Grants received

29 grants · £5,519,576 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

10 trustees on the board

4.2y median 4y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (1)

9
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 10Education/training 1General Charitable Purposes 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Health and social care 12Professional services 9Business services 4

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£13.1m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

18.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 11.4 in 2021

210 from 173 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.
19%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1042495
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 11 MAY 1994 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION ON 10 NOVEMBER 1994; FURTHER AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION ON 7 FEBRUARY 2003 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 28TH MAY 2004 as amended on 04 Apr 2019 as amended on 01 Apr 2025
Companies House
Company number 02927688 · Active
Contact on the register
02087832000 · hello@shootingstar.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
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