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Registered charity · London

Variety the Children's Charity

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £7.2m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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, Disability
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.variety.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Variety, the Children's Charity
Registered
1962

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£7.2m£6.7m
  • 2024£6.6m£6.5m
  • 2023£5.5m£5.9m
Earlier years
  • 2022£5.4m£4.9m
  • 2021£3.7m£3.7m
Charitable objects

1. TO PROMOTE AND PROVIDE FOR THE CARE AND UPBRINGING OF SICK, DISABLED AND DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM; 2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL NEED OF CHILDREN WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM; 3. TO UNDERTAKE AND TO ASSIST OTHERS TO UNDERTAKE RESEARCH INTO ANY ILLNESS OR AFFLICTION AFFECTING CHILDREN WHICH WILL ADVANCE KNOWLEDGE AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH; 4. THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR CHILDREN IN THE INTERESTS OF THEIR SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR SUCH CHILDREN

Board analysis for researchers

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.

11 trustees on the board

2.2y median 2y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
6.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (1)

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 11General Charitable Purposes 11The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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 10Finance 8Other services 6

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£6.6m 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.

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

20 from 34 in 2020
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
209259
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 16/07/1952AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/10/1981AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11/03/1987AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22/11/1995AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/11/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18/03/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/04/2009AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 28/05/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13 DEC 2017 as amended on 27 Feb 2023
Companies House
Company number 00509811 · Active
Contact on the register
02074288100 · info@variety.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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