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Registered charity · London

The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (UK)

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £67m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Overseas Aid/famine Relief and 2 more
Where
Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark and more
Website
www.ciff.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (UK)
Registered
2002

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£67m£508m
  • 2023£70m£449m
  • 2022£41m£410m
Earlier years
  • 2021£18m£619m
  • 2020£14m£299m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2023: Government grants 3%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE THE GENERAL PURPOSES OF SUCH CHARITABLE BODIES OR FOR SUCH OTHER PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY AS SHALL BE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE ("THE OBJECTS").

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.

8.2y median 8.5y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

18.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

Portfolio (2)

5
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 4General Charitable Purposes 4The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 4Environment/conservation/heritage 1Overseas Aid/famine Relief 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.

Business services 9Education 6Finance 4

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£66.7m 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.

20.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 18.8 in 2020

225 from 132 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
1091043
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 08/02/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04/12/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/07/2015AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02/03/2016AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16 JAN 2017AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30 OCT 2017AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 06 NOV 2018AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11 DEC 2018AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09 JAN 2019 as amended on 28 Oct 2019 as amended on 23 Dec 2020
Companies House
Company number 04370006 · Active
Contact on the register
02037406157 · info@ciff.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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