DAME VERA LYNN CHILDREN'S CHARITY

Registered charity 1089657 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE DAME VERA LYNN TRUST FOR CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY

This charity provides early intervention and other relevant related services to children with cerebral palsy and other motor impairments and associated disabilities and their parents and carers.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY AND OTHER MOTOR IMPAIRMENTS AND ASSOCIATED DISABILITIES AND THEIR PARENTS AND CARERS, BY PROVIDING EARLY INTERVENTION AND OTHER RELEVANT RELATED SERVICES. TO PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER RELEVANT RELATED SERVICES TO CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY AND ASSOCIATED DISABILITIES, AND THEIR PARENTS AND CARERS.

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.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Lewes, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a net surplus of £20,319 for the year ended 31 March 2026, with total income of £673,270 and total expenditure of £652,951. Free reserves stood at £232,465, which the trustees noted was just short of their six-month reserve policy target. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 6 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.

• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Dame Vera Lynn Children's Charity (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• UK Research and Innovation — “Six months into a UK Research and Innovation-funded Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) with Dame Vera Lynn Children…” (source page)
• Teladoc Health — “Seeing the children and parents during sessions and learning about the positive impact DVLCC has on their lives showed how vital its service…” (source page)
• Slater and Gordon — “This charity is a lifeline for many of the families who access its services… we are so pleased to be able to support the DVLCC team in growi…” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~9.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 23.2% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/10/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (05/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• John Michael Nicholas Duttchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alastair Hitchman
• Carolyn Scott
• Deborah Fry
• Douglas William Hill · trustee of 1 other charity
• Elizabeth Haigh-Reeve
• Sarah Whiteley

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

Operates in: Throughout England

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

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CAMPHILL DEVON COMMUNITY LIMITED.

• CAMPHILL DEVON COMMUNITY LIMITED income £3.3m
• CHILDREN CARE CENTRE income £231k
• DUNNINGTON CHILDREN income £287k
• DAME ALLAN'S SCHOOLS income £19.1m
• SEND THE RIGHT MESSAGE income £109k
• CHEYNE CHARITY FOR CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY income £120k

Side by side with its peers

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