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Registered charity · London

The Fostering Network

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £9.4m (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
Where
Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.fostering.net (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Fostering Network
Registered
1980

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£9.4m£8.0m
  • 2024£8.4m£7.7m
  • 2023£6.9m£7.1m
Earlier years
  • 2022£6.7m£6.8m
  • 2021£6.4m£6.5m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 42% · Government grants 32%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(A) TO RELIEVE BY SUCH MEANS AS ARE CHARITABLE CHILDREN THE AGED AND PERSONS SUFFERING FROM MENTAL OR PHYSICAL DISABILITY WHO BY REASON OF THEIR CIRCUMSTANCES HAVE NEED OF FOSTER OR SUBSTITUTE CARE. (B) TO PROMOTE AND ORGANISE CO-OPERATION IN ACHIEVING THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE QUALITY OF SERVICE GIVEN TO CHILDREN AND OTHERS IN CARE AND TO THAT END BRING TOGETHER IN THE ASSOCIATION FOSTER-CARERS REPRESENTATIVES OF THE AUTHORITIES AND ORGANISATIONS ENGAGED IN ADVANCING FOSTER CARE AND RELIEVING DISTRESS OF CHILDREN AND OTHERS IN CARE AND TO ASSIST THEIR WORK.

Grants received

33 grants · £10,388,880 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.

12 trustees on the board

3.9y median 3y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (1)

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 12General Charitable Purposes 12Religious Activities 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.

Health and social care 10Business services 3Education 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£9.4m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

0.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 2.8 in 2021

100 from 86 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.
74%
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
280852
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 11/07/1980AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/02/1988AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/11/1990AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/11/1996AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/10/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/11/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17/10/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02/10/2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22/11/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/11/2014 as amended on 15 Dec 2021
Companies House
Company number 01507277 · Active
Contact on the register
020 7620 6400 · info@fostering.net
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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