ECPAT UK

Registered charity 1104948 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as END CHILD PROSTITUTION, CHILD PORNOGRAPHY AND THE TRAFFICKING OF CHILDREN FOR SEXUAL PURPOSES (ECPAT UK)

We are a leading children's rights organisation working against the commercial sexual exploitation of children in the UK and on its international aspects. In particular, we focus on the protection of trafficked children and children exploited in tourism and the prevention of such crimes.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ("THE OBJECTS") ARE TO RELIEVE THOSE CHILDREN IN NEED AS THE TRUSTEES DETERMINE FROM TIME TO TIME AND TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY RAISING AWARENESS ON THE INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS OF THE COMMERCIAL SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN, TO THEREBY PROTECT SUCH INDIVIDUALS FROM HARM AND PREVENTING THEIR SUFFERING.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE 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 · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased by 9% to £570,457 while total expenditure increased by 18% to £581,098, resulting in a net deficit on restricted funds. However, the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £325,883, which the trustees confirm are above their stated minimum policy target of £159,940, allowing them to maintain a going concern status.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Cocke, Vellacott & Hill. Discloses 5 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
• 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05061385

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

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.

• SOARES CHORA, Matilde — director, appointed 19/05/2026not on trustee list
• ALEXANDER, Eleanor Roseanna — director, appointed 05/08/2025on trustee list
• BARRATT, Elizabeth — director, appointed 17/06/2021on trustee list
• CORRE, Geoffrey Stephen — director, appointed 17/06/2021not on trustee list
• MULLIN, Annabel Jean Charlotte — director, appointed 01/10/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (90% 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: 5.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Elizabeth Barrattchair
• Annabel Mullin
• Eleanor Alexander
• Kenza Louise Hamichi
• Matilde Chora

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 ACTION FOR CHILDREN.

• ACTION FOR CHILDREN income £163.4m
• PLAN INTERNATIONAL UK income £61.7m
• CEASE UK income £690k
• CHILD RIGHTS AND YOU UK income £84k
• THE NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN income £120.3m
• UK CARE FOR CHILDREN income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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