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Registered charity · London

National Children's Bureau

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £16m (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
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Throughout England, Northern Ireland
Website
www.ncb.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
National Children's Bureau
Registered
1969

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£16m£16m
  • 2024£13m£13m
  • 2023£11m£11m
Earlier years
  • 2022£12m£13m
  • 2021£16m£16m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 20% · Government grants 4%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE THE WELL-BEING OF ALL CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR BY (BUT NOT LIMITED TO):(A) RELIEVING POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS;(B) SAFEGUARDING AND MAINTAINING HEALTH AND WELL-BEING;(C) ENCOURAGING POSITIVE AND SUPPORTIVE FAMILY AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE;(D) ADVANCING EDUCATION AND TRAINING;(E) REDUCING INEQUALITIES; AND(F) ENSURING THAT CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE A STRONG VOICE IN ALL MATTERS THAT AFFECT THEIR LIVES.

Grants received

38 grants · £64,516,062 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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Most recent

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.

13 trustees on the board

3.1y median 4y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (13)

13
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 13Education/training 13The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 13

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 15Other services 5Professional 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£15.8m 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.

2.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 1.3 in 2021

206 from 107 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.
24%
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
258825
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 23RD APRIL 1969 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 25TH NOVEMBER 1970, 13TH DECEMBER 1990, 9TH DECEMBER 1992, 23RD NOVEMBER 1993 AND 27 NOVEMBER 2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22/10/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23 MAR 2017
Companies House
Company number 00952717 · Active
Contact on the register
02078436000
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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