CHILD LIGHT LIMITED

Registered charity 1039099 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Child Light engages in a range of educational activities, including publishing, running conferences and operating schools.

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £114,177 for the year, allowing it to carry forward cash reserves. The Trustees confirm that operational costs were fully met by fee income, and the organization maintains adequate resources to continue in existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Griffin Stone Moscrop & Co. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

What the charity says about itself (2026)

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Paul Stanfield — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Zoe Lambourne — Chief Operating Officer (source)
• Professor Debi Fry — Global Director of Data (source)
• Kelvin Lay MBE — Director of the Childlight Technical Advisory Program (C-TAP) (source)
• Professor Elena Martellozzo — Director of Childlight's European Hub (source)
• Professor Michael Salter — Director, Childlight East Asia & Pacific Hub (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £6.7m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Revd Dr Robert McDonaldchair
• Catherine Mary Meakin
• DAVID EDWARD CHARLES ALDERSON
• Dr Paul Anthony John Martin · trustee of 1 other charity
• Felicity Hough
• IAN NICHOLAS MOLYNEUX WRIGHT · trustee of 2 other charities
• Tolulope Anifalaje · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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

• LIGHT income £612k
• THE LIFE AND LIGHT MISSIONS income £921k
• LIGHT OF THE WORLD COMMUNITY CENTRE LIMITED income £302k
• LANTERN OF LIGHT income £105k
• LIGHTHALL UNDER FIVE'S PRE-SCHOOL income £165k
• LIGHTEN EDUCATION NETWORK income £33.1m

Side by side with its peers

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