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Registered charity · Cambridge

SOS Children's Villages UK

SOS Children's Villages UK is a registered charity (number 1069204) based in Cambridge, governed by 7 trustees. Latest income £6.8m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £6.8m (2025)
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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Overseas Aid/famine Relief
Where
Argentina, Armenia, Bangladesh, Belarus and more
Website
www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
SOS Children's Villages UK
Registered
1998

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£6.8m£7.8m
  • 2024£6.1m£7.8m
  • 2023£5.4m£8.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£8.4m£7.0m
  • 2021£7.8m£5.2m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE PROMOTION OF GOOD HEALTH OF VULNERABLE CHILDREN, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY (I) THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD OF SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES AND (II) THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS FROM SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES.

Grants received

3 grants · £319,312 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

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £309,312 (2 grants)
  • SHAREGIFT · £10,000

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £299,6232015-03-21
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,6892014-06-25
  • SHAREGIFT £10,0002004-12-21
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.

7 trustees on the board

3.6y median 3y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

7
company-linked trustees

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

Overseas Aid/famine Relief 7

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

Professional services 7Health and social care 2Other services 1

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£6.1m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
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.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 3.9 in 2020

29 from 22 in 2020
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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1069204
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 07 APR 1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17 DEC 1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11 SEP 2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12 FEB 2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07 DEC 2017
Companies House
Company number 03346676 · Active
Contact on the register
01223365589 · hello@sosuk.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
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