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Registered charity · Bromley

The World Children's Fund

The World Children's Fund is a registered charity (number 1079124) based in Bromley, governed by 4 trustees and chaired by Joseph LAM. Latest income £1.1m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

  • 4 trustees
  • Income £1.1m (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
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Kenya, Liberia, Mozambique and more
Website
www.worldchildrensfund.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The World Children's Fund
Registered
2000

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.1m£1.2m
  • 2024£1.0m£1.1m
  • 2023£2.4m£2.4m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.2m£2.1m
  • 2021£4.3m£4.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

(1) TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS, HARDSHIP AND SUFFERING AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. (2) TO RELIEVE SUFFERING AND DISTRESS CAUSED BY NATURAL OR MAN-MADE DISASTERS. (3) SUCH EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE DIRECTORS SHALL DECIDE.

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.

4 trustees on the board

9.5y median 9.5y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

17.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (2)

Portfolio (2)

3
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 4The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 4General Charitable Purposes 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Business services 4Construction 1Manufacturing 1

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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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£1.1m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

8.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 2.8 in 2021

1 from 1 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1079124
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 27 MAY 1999 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 17 JANUARY 2000 AND 9 JUNE 2009
Companies House
Company number 03778493 · Active
Contact on the register
020 4631 5300 · info@worldchildrensfund-uk.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
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