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Registered charity · London

WAR Child

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £20m (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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About

What it does
Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief
Where
Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Yemen, Congo (Democratic Republic) and more
Website
www.warchild.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
WAR Child
Registered
1998

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£20m£18m
  • 2024£13m£13m
  • 2023£19m£20m
Earlier years
  • 2022£19m£17m
  • 2021£15m£15m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 15%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1. TO BRING RELIEF TO PERSONS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD WHO ARE SUFFERING HARDSHIP SICKNESS OR DISTRESS AS A RESULT OF WAR AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) TO BRING SUCH RELIEF TO CHILDREN WHO ARE SO SUFFERING; 2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE EFFECTS OF WAR ESPECIALLY THE EFFECTS OF WAR ON CHILDREN.

Grants received

13 grants · £12,517,027 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

  • SHAREGIFT £5,0002025-10-13
  • Postcode Education Trust £3,000,0002025-02-10
  • SHAREGIFT £3,0002025-01-16
  • EA Foundation £20,0002024-11-25
  • Postcode Education Trust £3,000,0002023-12-01
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.

8 trustees on the board

5.5y median 5.5y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

8
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 8Overseas Aid/famine Relief 8The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 8

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

Retail and trade 11Dormant 10Tech and media 7

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£13.1m latest income
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.

2.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 1.8 in 2020

58
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
1071659
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 30TH JULY 1998 as amended on 21 Nov 2024
Companies House
Company number 03610100 · Active
Contact on the register
44 (0)20 7112 2556 · info@warchild.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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