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Registered charity (CIO) · London

Cosmic

The objects of the CIO are: 1. to further the charitable purposes of neonatal units and paediatric units at hospitals in London, in particular but not limited to the neonatal unit at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London W2 and at Queen Charlotte’s...

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £992k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where
City Of Westminster, Hammersmith And Fulham
Website
www.cosmiccharity.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2018

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£992k£876k
  • 2024£461k£672k
  • 2023£564k£520k
Earlier years
  • 2022£374k£432k
  • 2021£530k£387k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 4%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

The objects of the CIO are: 1. to further the charitable purposes of neonatal units and paediatric units at hospitals in London, in particular but not limited to the neonatal unit at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London W2 and at Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea Hospital, Hammersmith, London W12 (the "NICU") and the paediatric unit at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, London W2 (the “PICU”) in particular (but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing) for the improvement in the care of newborn babies and of children through the provision of equipment or facilities and for the provision of facilities for the accommodation and support of parents of children being treated in the NICU or the PICU or any additional neonatal or paediatric unit at either hospital or any neonatal or paediatric unit that replaces the function of either of them; and 2. the advancement of medical science for the public benefit and for the promotion of other charitable purposes for the benefit of children.

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

4.5y median 4y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

0
company-linked trustees

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

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 10

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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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£992k 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.

13.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 19.0 in 2021

7 from 4 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
1180494
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 30 Oct 2018 as amended on 04 Feb 2020 as amended on 23 Mar 2020
Contact on the register
02033126175 · info@cosmiccharity.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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