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Registered charity · Worcestershire

The Children's Family Trust

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £9.7m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.thecft.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Children's Family Trust
Registered
1962

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£9.7m£9.4m
  • 2024£9.7m£9.6m
  • 2023£9.0m£9.1m
Earlier years
  • 2022£8.6m£8.5m
  • 2021£7.7m£7.6m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 100%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE RELIEF OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS IN NEED, AND IN PARTICULAR THOSE IN THE CARE OF, OR ACCOMMODATED BY, A LOCAL AUTHORITY, BY PROVIDING THEM WITH, OR OTHERWISE ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF, A PLACEMENT OR PLACEMENTS IN SUITABLE ACCOMMODATION A0ND PROVIDING THEM WITH OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF, APPROPRIATE CARERS, WITH THE AIM OF PROVIDING THEM WITH A STABLE FAMILY LIFE PROVIDING FOR THEIR EDUCATION AND ESTABLISHMENT IN LIFE AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND IN PARTICULAR THE ASSISTANCE OF ADULTS WHO HAVE AS CHILDREN BEEN IN LOCAL AUTHORITY CARE

Grants received

1 grant · £8,760 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

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £8,760

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £8,7602016-10-19
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

8.7y median 9y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

15.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

7
company-linked trustees

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

The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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 7Professional services 2Finance 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together
  • 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£9.7m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
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.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months

53 from 55 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
208607
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ON 27TH SEPTEMBER 1945 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 9 DECEMBER 2003 AND 21 JULY 2009 as amended on 20 Feb 2019
Companies House
Company number 00398875 · Active
Contact on the register
01527574446 · enquiries@thecft.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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