Registered charity · St. Neots
The Thalidomide Trust
The Thalidomide Trust is a registered charity (number 266220) based in St. Neots, governed by 1 trustee. Latest income £29m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.
- 1 trustee
- Income £29m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
No individual trustees are listed on the register.
Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: Thalidomide Trust Company.
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Disability
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
- Website
- www.thalidomidetrust.org (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1973
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£29m£38m
- 2024£30m£39m
- 2023£30m£68m
Earlier years
- 2022£31m£34m
- 2021£27m£33m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 37%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
THE CARE, WELFARE, TREATMENT AND EDUCATION OF OR OTHERWISE IN ANY WAY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE DISABILITIES OF OR TO MEET THE NEEDS OF CHILDREN SUFFERING FROM CONGENITAL DISABILITY DUE TO THALIDOMIDE.
Grants received
8 grants · £69,201,303 total360Giving 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
- Department of Health and Social Care · £62,490,140 (7 grants)
- Department of Health · £6,711,163
Most recent
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Department of Health and Social Care
Board analysis
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45.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 63.8 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 266220
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 10 AUGUST 1973 AS AMENDED BY ORDER OF THE CHARITY COMMISSIONERS DATED 4 MAY 2004 AND RESOLUTIONS DATED 3RD JUNE 2004 AND 4 JULY 2008 AND SCHEME DATED 10 OCTOBER 2008AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 29 JAN 2018
- Contact on the register
- 01480474074 · hello@thalidomidetrust.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 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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