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Registered charity · York

The Smile Train UK

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £14m (2025)
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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
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability
Where
Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, Ethiopia and more
Website
www.smiletrain.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Smile Train UK
Registered
2006

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£14m£14m
  • 2024£12m£12m
  • 2023£11m£10m
Earlier years
  • 2022£10m£11m
  • 2021£8.9m£9.0m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

(A) TO RELIEVE THE SUFFERING OF CHILDREN WITH CLEFT LIPS OR PALATES OR BOTH;(B) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF THE PUBLIC, INCLUDING DOCTORS, NURSES AND MEDICAL SUPPORT STAFF IN ALL MATTERS RELATING TO CLEFT LIP AND PALATE SURGERY AND TREATMENT AND THE SUPPORT OF THOSE WITH THE CONDITION; AND(C) TO PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO AND THE KNOWLEDGE AND STUDY OF THE INVENTION, IMPROVEMENT AND APPLICATION OF TREATMENTS, CURES AND OTHER MEDICINAL AGENTS, METHODS AND PROCESSES THAT MAY IN ANY WAY RELIEVE THE SUFFERING OF THOSE WITH CLEFT LIPS AND PALATES.

Grants received

5 grants · £32,000 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.

8 trustees on the board

8.5y median 8.5y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (1)

8
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 8Education/training 8The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 8

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 8Business services 2Finance 2

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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£13.6m 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.

1.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 0.2 in 2021

8 from 6 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
1114748
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 10/03/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/03/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29/08/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/11/2015
Companies House
Company number 05738962 · Active
Contact on the register
03001245205 · ukinfo@smiletrain.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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