ROALD DAHL'S MARVELLOUS CHILDREN'S CHARITY

Registered charity 1137409 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q125784351 · Wikipedia

To ensure every seriously ill child and young person in the UK has the best possible healthcare by placing our Roald Dahl nurses in areas of greatest need; supporting our nurses in the work that they do; funding innovative nurse-led projects to improve quality of care; and providing benefits advice through our family support service.

Objects

TO FURTHER SUCH EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE, INCLUDING ASSISTING OTHER CHARITIES.THROUGHOUT THIS MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION ‘CHARITABLE’ MEANS CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES PROVIDED THAT IT WILL NOT INCLUDE ANY PURPOSE WHICH IS NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005.FOR THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBT, THE SYSTEM OF LAW GOVERNING THE CONSTITUTION OF THE CHARITY IS THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED.

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

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net deficit of £821,511 for the year, funded by a reduction in its restricted endowment reserve. Unrestricted reserves decreased to £231,344, which the trustees consider to be at the lower end of their stated policy target of three to six months' operational cover. The charity maintains significant restricted funds (£9.5 million) and relies on a large endowment from the Fantastic Peach Foundation to cover core costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 4 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
• 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

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

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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 31/03/2023 (received 06/02/2024, 6 days after the 31/01/2024 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07340518

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity (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.

• PLANE, Robin Francis — director, appointed 29/11/2025on trustee list
• MITCHELL, Kimberley Anne — director, appointed 12/03/2025on trustee list
• BRADLEY, Carolyn Jane — director, appointed 12/03/2025on trustee list
• EMILION, Elizabeth Jane — director, appointed 12/03/2025on trustee list
• MARSH, Michael David — director, appointed 30/06/2023on trustee list
• ANDREWS, Grace — director, appointed 30/06/2023on trustee list
• SHARMA, Sanjiv, Dr — director, appointed 30/06/2023on trustee list
• THOMSON, Helen Campbell — director, appointed 30/06/2023on trustee list
• GOODCHILD, Suzannah Jane — director, appointed 18/05/2023on trustee list
• EVANS, Kathryn Nicole — director, appointed 18/05/2023on trustee list
• BROADLEY, Rachelle Mary — director, appointed 03/12/2020on trustee list
• JOHNSON, Jodi Saron Ella — director, appointed 28/11/2018on trustee list
• COX, Elspeth — secretary, appointed 24/06/2026

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (76% 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: 36.6% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/09/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carolyn Jane Bradleychair
• Dr Sanjiv Sharma
• Elizabeth Jane Emilion
• Grace Andrews
• Helen Campbell Thomson
• Jodi Saron Ella Johnson
• Kathryn Nicole Evans
• Kimberley Anne Mitchell
• Rachelle Mary Broadley
• Robin Francis Plane
• Suzannah Jane Goodchild · trustee of 1 other charity

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

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 THE RANDAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.

• THE RANDAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £3.3m
• THE ROALD DAHL MUSEUM AND STORY CENTRE income £1.0m
• THE CHILDREN'S AMAZING RURAL KIDS income £102k
• D D MCPHAIL CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT CIO income £203k
• MICHAEL CRAWFORD CHILDRENS CHARITY income £132k
• THE DYLAN STRONG FOUNDATION income £71k

Side by side with its peers

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