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Registered charity · Hertfordshire

Action for Children

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £163m (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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Disability, Accommodation/housing and 1 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.actionforchildren.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Action for Children
Registered
2003

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£163m£163m
  • 2024£155m£161m
  • 2023£150m£149m
Earlier years
  • 2022£143m£139m
  • 2021£145m£139m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 57% · Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE CHARITY WORKS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT HAVING AS ITS OBJECTS THE PROMOTION OF THE UPBRINGING AND CARE OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN NEED FROM ALL BACKGROUNDS, CULTURES, AND FAITHS OR NONE IN PARTICULAR BY:1. PROMOTING THEIR BETTER CARE AND SAFEGUARDING THEM;2. PROVIDING ASSISTANCE TO THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS;3. PROMOTING THEIR HEALTH;4. PROMOTING THEIR EDUCATION AND ESTABLISHMENT IN LIFE.

Grants received

98 grants · £22,186,990 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.

10 trustees on the board

2.2y median 1y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

20.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (4)

10
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 9Education/training 9General Charitable Purposes 9Accommodation/housing 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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 20Education 13Arts and leisure 5

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£163.4m 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.

1.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 2.3 in 2021

4395 from 4741 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.
58%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1097940
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 14/05/2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/01/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/01/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05/11/2015 as amended on 06 Nov 2025 as amended on 04 Dec 2025
Companies House
Company number 04764232 · Active
Contact on the register
01923361500 · ask.us@actionforchildren.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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