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Registered charity · London

The Sick Children's Trust

(a) To help aid the recovery of seriously ill children in hospital in Great Britain and Northern Ireland by supporting the well-being of the family.(b) The Charity provides 'Home from Home' accommodation for families and carers of sick children...

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £2.7m (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
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Accommodation/housing
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.sickchildrenstrust.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Sick Childrens Trust
Registered
1982

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.7m£3.2m
  • 2024£2.4m£3.2m
  • 2023£2.4m£3.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.9m£2.4m
  • 2021£2.0m£2.5m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 5%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(a) To help aid the recovery of seriously ill children in hospital in Great Britain and Northern Ireland by supporting the well-being of the family.(b) The Charity provides 'Home from Home' accommodation for families and carers of sick children undergoing treatment at hospitals across Great Britain and Northern Ireland.(c) To work towards a future where no child in Great Britain and Northern Ireland faces hospital alone by giving their family a place to stay, free of charge, just minutes from their bedside.

Grants received

25 grants · £344,268 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

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.

10 trustees on the board

5.3y median 3y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

10
company-linked trustees

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

Accommodation/housing 10The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 10

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 10Finance 8Professional services 6

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£2.7m 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.

24.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 41.6 in 2021

54 from 52 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
284416
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 20TH JANUARY 1982 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION PASSED 29TH SEPTEMBER 1983 AND 22ND APRIL 1997 as amended on 07 Jan 2024 as amended on 16 Oct 2025
Companies House
Company number 01618435 · Active
Contact on the register
02076384066 · info@sickchildrenstrust.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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