The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

The Catholic Children's Society (Westminster)

Registered charity 210920 Registered since 1963

Operates: Throughout England And Wales

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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.

3.7y median 3y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (1)

9
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 11Economic/community Development/employment 1Education/training 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 12Education 4Other services 3

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£2.9m 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.

8.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 12.4 in 2021

84 from 72 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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.cathchild.org.uk
Emailinfo@cathchild.org.uk
Phone02089695305
AddressThe Catholic Childrens Society, 73 St. Charles Square, LONDON, W10 6EJ

Finances

£2,949,689 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£3,149,944£2,540,371
2022£2,512,723£2,411,109
2023£3,080,079£2,724,398
2024£3,167,568£2,645,134
2025£2,949,689£2,901,497

What it does

What

General Charitable Purposes

Who

Children/young PeopleOther Defined Groups

How

Provides Services

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE IN SUCH CHARITABLE WAYS AS SHALL SEEM FIT THE MATERIAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL WELFARE OF CHILDREN, YOUNG PERSONS, ADULTS WHO WERE BENEFICIARIES OF THE SOCIETY AS CHILDREN OR YOUNG PERSONS, ADULTS WHO WERE (OR WHO HAVE FAMILY MEMBERS WHO WERE) IN FOSTER, ADOPTIVE OR RESIDENTIAL CARE AS CHILDREN OR YOUNG PERSONS, AND FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN AND/OR YOUNG PERSONS IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF WESTMINSTER AND ELSEWHERE AND WHETHER OR NOT OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC FAITH AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT IN ANY WAY LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) TO PROVIDE AND ASSIST IN PROVIDING FOR SUCH PERSONS ACCOMMODATION (WHETHER IN PROPERTY BELONGING TO THE SOCIETY OR OTHERWISE AND WHETHER OR NOT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM) AND ALSO CLOTHING, EDUCATION AND TRAINING, ADVICE AND COUNSELLING.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 13/07/1905AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11/07/1984AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/06/1996AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07/06/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/12/2008AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 20/08/1984AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 03/12/2015 as amended on 11 Aug 2020

Trustees (11)

11trustees
65median age
4aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Catholic Childrens' Society (Westminster)(the) · 00085235 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 13/07/1905

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (1)

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