CAUDWELL CHILDREN

Registered charity 1079770 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CAUDWELL CHARITY, THE CAUDWELL CHARITABLE TRUST · also registered in Scotland as SC043874 (OSCR)

Caudwell Children provides:* Family support and short break activities * Mobility and sensory equipment * Access to life saving surgeries treatments* Life changing therapy for children with brain injuries, and their families* Supported holidays for children fighting life threatening illnesses with their families* Holistic therapy for Autistic children and their families

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF SICK AND DISABLED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES ACROSS THE WORLD. THESE PURPOSES INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT RESTRICTED TO, THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY AND INDEPENDENCE.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Newcastle-under-Lyme, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided document is an Annual Report containing operational statistics, beneficiary testimonials, and organizational structure details for the financial year ending 2025-12-31. It does not contain the financial statements, balance sheet, or income and expenditure accounts required to assess financial health, reserves, or audit status.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2022 (received 29/11/2023, 29 days after the 31/10/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• $1 million raised for Caudwell Children charity by Hook painting gbc.gi · 25/06/2026
• Jobs available in Stoke right now: Superdrug, Caudwell Children, Keele University and more stoke.nub.news · 23/05/2026
• Caudwell Children partner with Slater and Gordon nrtimes.co.uk · 14/04/2026
• Caudwell Children's charity film up for national award bbc.co.uk · 29/01/2026
• BRANDON CONSULTANTS BRINGS CAUDWELL CHILDREN’S NEW BRAND POSITIONING TO LIFE WITH A VISUAL BRAND IDENTITY ROOTED IN POTENTIAL – Marketing Communication News marcommnews.com · 12/11/2025
• Caudwell Children Raises Over €1 Million in Monaco montecarloliving.com · 27/10/2025
• Billy Folchetti Brings Creative Vision to Caudwell Children’s Iconic Butterfly Ball Monaco london-post.co.uk · 09/09/2025
• Who’s Moving: Save the Children, Caudwell Children and more civilsociety.co.uk · 11/11/2024

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03864620

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Caudwell Children (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• John Caudwell — Chairman Emeritus (source)
• David Canfield — Chairman (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Likewize — “Likewize, a tech company, chose Caudwell Children as their “Charity of the Year” in 2024.” (source page)
• Radwell International — “Soaring for a Cause: Radwell International's Skydive in Support of Caudwell Children.” (source page)

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.

• MCKNIGHT, Maxwell — director, appointed 18/12/2025not on trustee list
• CANFIELD, David Hodgson — director, appointed 10/01/2024on trustee list
• CAUDWELL, Brian, Mr. — director, appointed 24/10/2023on trustee list
• FENTON, Michael — director, appointed 17/10/2023on trustee list
• TIMPSON, Johnny — director, appointed 17/10/2023on trustee list
• GRIFFITHS, Jacqueline Donna — director, appointed 30/11/2010on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold); recorded price paid £264k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Caudwell Children — Registered, 1 registered location, 2 regulated activities, last inspected 14/01/2020.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (54% 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: 18.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

• Caudwell International Childrens Centre: Good (25/02/2020) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• BRIAN CAUDWELL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Caroline Rees
• Claire McLean · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Canfield · trustee of 1 other charity
• JACQUELINE DONNA GRIFFITHS
• JOHNNY TIMPSON
• Michael Fenton · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Michael Fenton — trustee here and at THE JOHN CAUDWELL FOUNDATION

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 THE FAMILY CENTRE (DEAF CHILDREN).

• THE FAMILY CENTRE (DEAF CHILDREN) income £140k
• RESOURCES FOR AUTISM income £2.5m
• SANDWELL PARENTS FOR DISABLED CHILDREN income £255k
• CONTACT A FAMILY income £8.8m
• CHILDREN'S RESPITE TRUST income £403k
• TOGS CENTRE income £124k

Side by side with its peers

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