CHILDLINE

Registered charity 1003758 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5097687 · Wikipedia

To provide a free confidential telephone counselling service for children and young people with the aim of comforting, advising and protecting children.ChildLine is a wholly-owned subsidiary of NSPCC and further details can be found on the website nspcc.org.ukAll monies raised by ChildLine are given to the NSPCC in a grant.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN AND IN PARTICULAR: (A) TO SET UP AND MAINTAIN TELEPHONE LINES OR OTHER MEANS OF COMMUNICATION OR CORRESPONDENCE TO ASSIST CHILDREN IN DANGER, SUFFERING, OR BEING ABUSED PHYSICALLY, SEXUALLY OR MENTALLY. (B) TO HELP CHILDREN WHO ARE IN DANGER OR NEED IN THE FORM OF FINANCIAL, MEDICAL, PROTECTIVE OR LIKE ASSISTANCE AND TO GIVE SUCH CHILDREN ADVICE, GUIDANCE AND COMFORT.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Hackney, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that Childline held no free or unrestricted reserves at the year-end, with total funds carried forward being zero. The charity reported total income of £1,480,000 from legacies, which was entirely granted to its parent charity, the NSPCC, resulting in a net movement in funds of zero. The trustees confirmed that holding reserves is unnecessary as the charity's primary function is to collect legacy funds for the NSPCC.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: NSPCC TRADING COMPANY LIMITED Companies House 00890446
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02622689

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• SHERWOOD, Christopher Geoffrey — director, appointed 20/01/2025not on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Paul — director, appointed 12/11/2021not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• NSPCC

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Guernsey · Jersey · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SUPPORTLINE.

• SUPPORTLINE income £16k
• CHILDREN'S LINKS income £3.5m
• YOUTHLINE LIMITED income £252k
• LIFELINE HUMANITARIAN ORGANISATION income £0
• MK MONEY LIFELINE income £90k
• LIFELINE COMMUNITY ACTION income £742k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.