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Registered charity · East Sussex

Dame Vera Lynn Children's Charity

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £677k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Disability
Where
Throughout England
Website
www.dvlcc.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Dame Vera Lynn Children's Charity
Registered
2001

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£677k£509k
  • 2024£528k£442k
  • 2023£369k£448k
Earlier years
  • 2022£441k£349k
  • 2021£468k£409k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 5%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY AND OTHER MOTOR IMPAIRMENTS AND ASSOCIATED DISABILITIES AND THEIR PARENTS AND CARERS, BY PROVIDING EARLY INTERVENTION AND OTHER RELEVANT RELATED SERVICES. TO PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER RELEVANT RELATED SERVICES TO CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY AND ASSOCIATED DISABILITIES, AND THEIR PARENTS AND CARERS.

Grants received

39 grants · £701,498 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.

7 trustees on the board

3y median 3y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (2)

7
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 7Education/training 7General Charitable Purposes 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.

Business services 7Professional services 4Health and social care 1

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£677k 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.

7.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 2.2 in 2021

9 from 9 in 2024
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
1089657
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 7 JUNE 2001 AS AMENDED 14 NOVEMBER 2001, 8 NOVEMBER 2004 AND 1 OCTOBER 2007AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 29/06/2015 as amended on 22 Mar 2019 as amended on 23 Nov 2020 as amended on 01 Jul 2024
Companies House
Company number 04230409 · Active
Contact on the register
01444473274 · info@dvlcc.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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