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Registered charity · Cheltenham

Wellchild

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £1.9m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.wellchild.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Wellchild
Registered
1984

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.9m£1.8m
  • 2024£1.4m£1.9m
  • 2023£2.2m£2.1m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.3m£1.6m
  • 2021£1.9m£2.0m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government contracts under 1% · Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY IS THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS, PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY AMONG SICK AND SERIOUSLY ILL CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AND THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS, BY:3.1 THE PROVISION, PROMOTION AND ADVANCEMENT OF CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES TO CARE FOR AND SUPPORT THE SICK AND SERIOUSLY ILL, AND THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS, TO ENSURE THAT THEY HAVE THE BEST POSSIBLE QUALITY OF LIFE;3.2 THE PROMOTION, FINANCING, MAINTENANCE AND FURTHERANCE OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH RESEARCH AND ENSURING THE EFFECTIVE DISSEMINATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH BY SUPPORTING, INFORMING AND EDUCATING THE SICK, THEIR FAMILIES AND THEIR CARERS;3.3 THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION AND EDUCATION ON THE AVOIDANCE OF SICKNESS AND THE PROVISION OF HEALTH AND WELFARE;3.4 ACTING ON BEHALF OF, PROMOTING AND FURTHERING THE NEEDS AND WELFARE OF THE SICK AND SERIOUSLY ILL AND THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS; AND3.5 SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR DISCRETION SEE FIT.

Grants received

11 grants · £663,871 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.

9 trustees on the board

4.4y median 3y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

9
company-linked trustees

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

The 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.

Property 12Health and social care 10Professional services 8

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£1.9m 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.

3.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 5.7 in 2021

29 from 30 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
289600
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 11/05/1984AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/02/1985AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/06/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/10/2006NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 27/06/2012AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 10/07/2012AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 13/07/2012NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 22/03/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20/01/2016
Companies House
Company number 01815689 · Active
Contact on the register
01242530007 · info@wellchild.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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