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Registered charity · Sheffield

The Children's Hospital Charity

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £5.4m (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
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where
Throughout England
Website
www.tchc.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Children's Hospital Charity LTD
Registered
1976

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£5.4m£3.2m
  • 2024£4.0m£7.0m
  • 2023£4.1m£3.5m
Earlier years
  • 2022£5.1m£3.1m
  • 2021£3.1m£1.9m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

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

Charitable objects

2.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND IN PARTICULAR:A. TO ENHANCE THE SERVICES, FACILITIES AND ENVIRONMENT OF THE FOUNDATION TRUST AND ITS REPUTATION AS A CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR THE CARE, PREVENTION AND CURE OF ILLNESSES AFFECTING CHILDREN;B. TO FURTHER ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES RELATING TO THE GENERAL OR ANY SPECIFIC PURPOSES OF THE FOUNDATION TRUST OR THE PURPOSES OF THE HEALTH SERVICE;C. TO PROMOTE, PROTECT, PRESERVE AND ADVANCE ALL OR ANY ASPECTS OF THE HEALTH OF THE PUBLIC; ANDD. TO ADVANCE AND PROMOTE KNOWLEDGE AND EDUCATION IN MEDICINE INCLUDING BY ENGAGING IN AND SUPPORTING MEDICAL RESEARCH (AND THE DISSEMINATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS).”PROVIDED THAT SUCH SUPPORT IS NOT OF A KIND THAT WOULD ORDINARILY BE GIVEN BY THE STATUTORY AUTHORITIES.

Grants received

9 grants · £416,071 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.

11 trustees on the board

3.7y median 3y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (1)

11
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 11General Charitable Purposes 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 26Professional services 7Finance 3

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£5.4m 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.

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

35 from 22 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
505002
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 1 SEPTEMBER 1975 AS AMENDED 18 DECEMBER 1975, 26 NOVEMBER 1981, 29 JULY 1983, CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION 18 AUGUST 2004, CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 30 SEPT 2008NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 16 JUL 2016 as amended on 15 Apr 2024
Companies House
Company number 01224751 · Active
Contact on the register
01143212470 · support@tchc.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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