Registered charity · London

Save the Children International

16 trustees
Income £1104m (2024)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty and 3 more
Where: Throughout London, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan and more
Website: www.savethechildren.net (opens in a new tab)
Linked company: Save the Children International
Registered: 1999

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2024£1104m£1181m
2023£1216m£1223m
2022£1309m£1240m

Earlier years

2021£988m£956m
2020£876m£860m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS (THE “OBJECTS”) OF THE CHARITY ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:1.1 - TO PROMOTE THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF CHILDREN (AS DEFINED IN ARTICLE 4.2);1.2 - TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND SUFFERING OF CHILDREN;1.3 - TO PRESERVE LIFE, AND PROMOTE THE HEALTH AND WELFARE, OF CHILDREN INCLUDING BY PROTECTING CHILDREN WHO HAVE SUFFERED HARM OR WHOSE LIVES AND SECURITY ARE AT RISK;1.4 - TO ADVANCE THE DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN; AND1.5 - TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CHARITIES WHO ARE MEMBERS OF SAVE THE CHILDREN, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, CO-ORDINATION, EDUCATION AND TRAINING,IN ALL CASES WORKING ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD.2 - IN THESE OBJECTS THE “HUMAN RIGHTS” OF CHILDREN MEANS ANY OR ALL OF THOSE RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS AS DEFINED IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD, INCLUDING THE RIGHTS TO SURVIVAL, PROTECTION, DEVELOPMENT AND PARTICIPATION, AND WILL BE PROMOTED IN PARTICULAR BY:2.1 - ADVANCING UNDERSTANDING AND RAISING AWARENESS ABOUT THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF CHILDREN;2.2 - ENABLING CHILDREN TO ACHIEVE THEIR HUMAN RIGHTS;2.3 - INTERNATIONAL ADVOCACY OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF CHILDREN;2.4 - PROMOTING RESPECT FOR THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF CHILDREN; AND2.5 - CONTRIBUTING TO THE SOUND ADMINISTRATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS LAW IN SO FAR AS IT APPLIES TO CHILDREN.

Grants received

6 grants · £8,123,774 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

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office · £8,072,600 (4 grants)
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · £51,174 (2 grants)

Most recent

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office £5,472,6002024-07-01
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office £1,400,0002023-04-01
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £43,6262022-10-21
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £7,5482022-10-21
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office £400,0002022-04-01

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.

16 trustees on the board

3.9y median 4y

average tenure

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (14)

Portfolio (2)

Larry Kamener since 2022
Richard Thomas George Winter since 2023

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 16General Charitable Purposes 15The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 15Economic/community Development/employment 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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 14Dormant 9Education 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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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£1103.5m 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.

0.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months

16153 from 15920 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: 1076822
Status: Registered
Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 12/03/1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/07/1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11/01/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20/06/2010NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 12/03/2012
Companies House: Company number 03732267 · Active
Contact on the register: 02032720300 · info@savethechildren.org
Edition: Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels: Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.

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