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Registered charity · London

The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £120m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th 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, Education/training
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Guernsey and more
Website
www.nspcc.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£120m£122m
  • 2024£125m£118m
  • 2023£121m£104m
Earlier years
  • 2022£124m£104m
  • 2021£122m£113m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 1% · Government grants 7%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1) TO PREVENT THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE WRONGS OF CHILDREN AND THE CORRUPTION OF THEIR MORALS; 2) TO TAKE ACTION FOR THE ENFORCEMENT OF LAWS FOR THEIR PROTECTION; 3) TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN AN ORGANISATION FOR THE ABOVE OBJECTS; 4) TO DO ALL OTHER SUCH LAWFUL THINGS AS ARE INCIDENTAL OR CONDUCIVE TO THE ATTAINMENT OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS

Grants received

89 grants · £76,024,658 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 · £47,496,366 (7 grants)
  • Postcode Children Trust · £10,100,000 (4 grants)
  • Sport England · £7,885,637 (20 grants)
  • Department for Education · £4,099,546
  • Home Office · £3,109,177 (6 grants)

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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.

12 trustees on the board

3.7y median 4y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (1)

5
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 12General Charitable Purposes 12The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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.

Other services 3Professional services 2Arts and leisure 1

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£120.3m 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.

9.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 7.5 in 2021

1484 from 1647 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.
8%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
216401
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER DATED 28 MAY 1895 AMENDED BY SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTERS DATED 17 FEBRUARY 1898, 30 AUGUST 1954, 1 JANUARY 1969 AND 20 DECEMBER 1972 AND 17 DECEMBER 2002
Contact on the register
02078252500 · supporter@nspcc.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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