THE CHILDHOOD TRUST

Registered charity 1154032 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q111686082

The objects of the charity are to prevent or relieve poverty or deprivation, in particular among children and young people, by providing grants, items and services to individuals in need and or charities, or other organisations working to prevent or relieve poverty or deprivation.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHILDHOOD TRUST ARE TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY OR DEPRIVATION, IN PARTICULAR AMONG CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, BY PROVIDING GRANTS, ITEMS AND SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND/OR CHARITIES, OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY OR DEPRIVATION.

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £374,164 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total reserves from £1,375,218 to £1,001,054. The trustees confirmed that unrestricted reserves of £871,257 remain at the equivalent of 12 months of operating costs, despite being below the stated policy target. The auditor concluded that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate 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 Godfrey Wilson Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).

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

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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 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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Who’s Moving: Nuffield Health, Galop, Childhood Trust and more civilsociety.co.uk · 28/05/2024

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07746081

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Childhood Trust (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).

• Freshfields — “Freshfields raises over £30,000 towards its £100,000 target in one night” (source page)

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.

• KELLY, Jonathan Grant — director, appointed 19/05/2022on trustee list
• RHODES, David Jeremy — director, appointed 27/01/2021on trustee list
• HORLICK, Nicola Karina Christina — director, appointed 30/09/2020on trustee list
• JACQUES, Rebecca Louise — director, appointed 23/01/2020on trustee list
• O'MARA, Lesley — director, appointed 19/09/2019on trustee list
• AMIEN CLOETE, Galiema — director, appointed 15/05/2019not on trustee list
• GORDON, Grant Edward — director, appointed 21/09/2011on trustee list
• LLEWELYN, Rosamund — secretary, appointed 01/12/2024

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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: 4.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• GRANT EDWARD GORDONchair · trustee of 3 other charities
• David Jeremy Rhodes
• Galiema Amien Cloete
• Jonathan Kelly
• Lesley O'Mara
• Nicola Horlick
• Rebecca Louise Jacques

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• GRANT EDWARD GORDON — trustee here and at The Ethos Foundation

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

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 THE CHILDREN'S FAMILY TRUST.

• THE CHILDREN'S FAMILY TRUST income £9.7m
• CHILDREN ON THE EDGE income £1.9m
• CHILDREN TODAY CHARITABLE TRUST income £278k
• FIRST DAYS CHILDREN'S CHARITY income £452k
• ROBYN CHARITABLE TRUST income £98k
• FOUNDATION MATTERS income £366k

Side by side with its peers

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