CHILDREN ON THE EDGE

Registered charity 1101441 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COTE

To relieve children and young people who are the survivors of conflict and abuse or any other vulnerable or marginalised children and young people, through the provision of education and play programmes, safe secure accommodation and by such other charitable means as the Trustees may from time to time think fit.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £42,680 for the year ended 28 February 2025, resulting in total funds of £1,694,907. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £325,907, which is within the stated policy target of 0-25% of forecast expenditure. The trustees confirmed that resources are adequate to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by 7GSXX :IZIVW 0XH. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 2 (FY2025).

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Children on the Edge (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Rachel Bentley — CEO (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).

• Oriflame UK — “We’re delighted to work with leading beauty brand Oriflame in the UK and Ireland. 50p is donated from every Tender Care balm sold - funding …” (source page)
• Chambers & Partners — “We’re delighted to have launched a partnership with global legal research firm Chambers and Partners .Their events across Europe, Asia and A…” (source page)
• Martin Sewell Building Company — “The brilliant team at The Martin Sewell Building Company have been long-term supporters of Children on the Edge, supporting crisis appeals a…” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 28/02/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (52% 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: 12.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/12/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Stuart Gallimorechair
• Helen Pattinson
• PAUL DAVID SUTER · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sarah Wickens
• William Alexander Jones

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

Operates in: Afghanistan · Bangladesh · Burma · Thailand · Uganda

Income and spending

Common questions

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 FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE.

• FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE income £1.5m
• HULL AND EAST YORKSHIRE CHILDREN'S UNIVERSITY LIMITED income £795k
• CHILDREN IN CRISIS income £536k
• FIVE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES TRUST LTD income £2.3m
• THE DIFFERENCE EDUCATION LTD income £1.6m
• FUN 4 KIDZ income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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