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Registered charity · London

Church of England Children's Society

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £41m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Denbighshire, Throughout England
Website
www.childrenssociety.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Church of England Children's Society
Registered
1964

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£41m£44m
  • 2024£36m£41m
  • 2023£43m£40m
Earlier years
  • 2022£37m£38m
  • 2021£34m£39m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 48% · Government grants 12%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ('OBJECTS') FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT ARE TO CARE FOR AND SUPPORT CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN NEED, WHETHER MATERIAL, PHYSICAL, MENTAL, EMOTIONAL, SPIRITUAL OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING BY:3.1 PROMOTING THEIR HEALTH, EDUCATION, DEVELOPMENT AND WELL-BEING;3.2 ENCOURAGING POSITIVE AND SUPPORTIVE FAMILY AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTS FOR CHILDREN ANDYOUNG PEOPLE;3.3 PROVIDING ASSISTANCE TO THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS.

Grants received

159 grants · £40,178,266 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.

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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.

14 trustees on the board

4.8y median 4y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

Portfolio (2)

12
company-linked trustees

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

Economic/community Development/employment 14Education/training 14General Charitable Purposes 14

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 17Education 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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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£40.6m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

12.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 5.0 in 2021

852 from 825 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.
60%
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
221124
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 28/11/1893AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11/05/1971AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/12/1981AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17/09/1985AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29/09/1987AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28/01/1992AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10/10/1996AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17/10/1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/09/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17/09/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05/11/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22/09/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18/09/2014AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 02/10/2014 as amended on 06 Nov 2018 as amended on 06 Nov 2025
Companies House
Company number 00040004 · Active
Contact on the register
020 7841 4543 · governance@childrenssociety.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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