THE UNITED KINGDOM COMMITTEE FOR UNICEF

Registered charity 1072612 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7865280 · Wikipedia · also known as UNICEF UK · also registered in Scotland as SC043677 (OSCR)

UNICEF is the world's leading organisation working for children. UNICEF works in partnership with families, local communities, partners and governments in over 190 countries and territories to help every child realise their full potential.UNICEF UK raises funds for UNICEF's emergency and development work around the world and advocates for lasting change for children worldwide.

Objects

1) TO PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS FOR CHILDREN (AS SET OUT IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS, THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD AND OTHER RELEVANT UNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS, AND OTHER RELEVANT INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS INSTRUMENTS) THROUGHOUT THE WORLD;2) TO FURTHER CHARITABLE WORK FOR CHILDREN THROUGHOUT THE WORLD INCLUDING WORK THROUGH FAMILIES AND THEIR COMMUNITIES FOR:I) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND NEED;II) THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING;III) THE PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF, AND PROVISION FOR, HEALTH; ANDIV) THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN WHO ARE VULNERABLE TO EXPLOITATION AND ABUSE.

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that UNICEF UK reported a surplus of £0.9 million for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income rising to £146.6 million. The charity holds £5.6 million in general unrestricted funds, which the trustees confirm is consistent with their reserves policy covering four months of unfunded expenditure. The financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis, with the auditors finding no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue operations.

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 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 78 (FY2024) → 93 (FY2025).
• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — UNICEF UK (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustpilot: UNICEF UK scores 1.8/5 from 25 reviews (source) — reviews usually concern the charity’s shops or services, not its charitable performance.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (389,408 likes) · instagram (345K followers)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 2.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 23.8% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/11/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (30/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/06/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (24/01/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/06/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/05/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Shatish Damodar Dasanichair
• Christopher James Merry
• Dr Margaret Elizabeth Atkinson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Heather Francis
• Meryl Candice Bagguley
• Sarah Davis · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sheena Amin
• Sophie Pender
• Zamila Skingsley

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

Operates in: Angola · Bangladesh · Belize · Benin · Bolivia · Brazil · Burkina Faso · Burma · Burundi · Cambodia · Central African Republic · Chad

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 CHILDREN'S AID.

• CHILDREN'S AID income £377k
• THE GLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN UK TRUST income £2.6m
• CHILDREN UNITE income £44k
• ACTION FOR CHILDREN income £163.4m
• FAMILY FOR EVERY CHILD income £3.1m
• UNITED FAMILY INTERNATIONAL CHURCH (UK) income £823k

Side by side with its peers

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