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Registered charity (CIO) · Oxford

Children Heard and Seen

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £579k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.childrenheardandseen.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2014

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£579k£627k
  • 2024£651k£547k
  • 2023£575k£361k
Earlier years
  • 2022£371k£263k
  • 2021£199k£192k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AMONG CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE OF PRISONERS WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED ON THE GROUNDS OF THEIR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC POSITION INCLUDING:MENTORING SUPPORT AND GUIDANCE FOR CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND THEIR FAMILIES ADVOCACY PARTNERSHIP WORKING

Grants received

36 grants · £601,082 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

3.6y median 2y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

3.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

0
company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 7

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board
  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£579k 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.

0.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 2.4 in 2021

21 from 10 in 2023
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
1157879
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION REGISTERED 16 JUL 2014AMENDED ON 08 JUN 2018
Contact on the register
07557339258 · contact@childrenheardandseen.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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