CHILDREN TODAY CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1137436 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Enabling children and young people who are living with disability or sickness to achieve their potential, increase independence and improve quality of life through the provision of specialised equipment and other services.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE LIVING WITHIN THE COMMUNITY WHO ARESICK OR DISABLED, OR WHO HAVE LEARNING DIFFICULTIES, BY THE PROVISION OFEQUIPMENT OR SERVICES CALCULATED TO INCREASE THEIR INDEPENDENCE AND TOIMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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 · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £26,283 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total funds of £8. However, the unrestricted general fund holds a deficit of £3,916, and the trustees acknowledge negative unrestricted reserves while maintaining a going concern basis due to adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• 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 31/03/2021 (received 31/03/2022, 59 days after the 31/01/2022 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.

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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• PETER EVANSchair
• HUGH MCCAW
• Helen Dalby-Wildridge
• Mark Adrian Franklin White
• NIGEL ROSE

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

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

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

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 CHILDREN'S FAMILY TRUST.

• THE CHILDREN'S FAMILY TRUST income £9.7m
• THE CHILDHOOD TRUST income £3.3m
• THE CAVENDISH SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED income £4.0m
• BURWELL AND DISTRICT DAY CENTRE TRUST income £165k
• JOHN HORNIMAN'S CHILDREN'S TRUST income £52k
• DR. VIVIAN CHILD CHARITABLE TRUST income £51k

Side by side with its peers

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