Registered charity · London

The Lullaby Trust

9 trustees
Income £1.6m (2025)

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
Where: Throughout England And Wales, Northern Ireland
Website: www.lullabytrust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company: The Lullaby Trust Limited
Registered: 1971

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£1.6m£1.6m
2024£1.5m£1.5m
2023£1.5m£1.5m

Earlier years

2022£1.8m£1.4m
2021£1.4m£1.2m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 3%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF INFANT HEALTH AND WELFARE GENERALLY INCLUDING THE STUDY OF AND RESEARCH INTO SUDDEN AND UNEXPLAINED INFANT DEATHS SOMETIMES CALLED COT DEATHS AND THE CAUSES PREVENTION THEREOF. (FOR DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 26TH JANUARY 1971).

Grants received

15 grants · £920,934 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 · £729,690 (5 grants)
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £67,616
Garfield Weston Foundation · £60,000 (3 grants)
Henry Smith Foundation · £29,000
BBC Children in Need · £23,628 (2 grants)

Most recent

The National Lottery Community Fund £20,0002026-03-19
The National Lottery Community Fund £10,6402025-08-08
SHAREGIFT £10,0002024-10-10
Making A Difference Locally £5002024-10-03
Garfield Weston Foundation £30,0002023-11-23

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.

9 trustees on the board

2.7y median 4y

average tenure

longest tenure

trustees past 6 years

3.4y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

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 9The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 9

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 8Education 3Property 1

Gaps to watch

Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£1.6m 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.

7.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

26 from 24 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.

Sources

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

Record details

Registered charity number: 262191
Status: Registered
Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 26/01/1971AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/08/1075AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/03/1991AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/11/1996AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29/11/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/01/2002AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 14/03/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28 FEB 2017 as amended on 06 Dec 2019 as amended on 09 Feb 2021
Companies House: Company number 01000824 · Active
Contact on the register: 02078023200 · finance@lullabytrust.org.uk
Edition: Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels: Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.

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