THE NAVAL CHILDREN'S CHARITY

Registered charity 1160182 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Naval Children's Charity, RNRMCF, THE ROYAL NAVY AND ROYAL MARINES CHILDREN'S FUND · also registered in Scotland as SC052322 (OSCR)

The Naval Children's Charity supports dependant children up to and including the age of 25 of serving or former serving members of the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, QARNNS, WRNS, Reserves and RFA who are in need, hardship or distress. Families are supported through grants, free books and resources and community support. Families can apply directly to the Charity for help or through other agencies.

Objects

3.1 The object of the CIO is the relief of Beneficiaries who are in need, hardship or distress.3.2 The charity trustees may relieve Beneficiaries in need by:3.2.1 making grants of money to them; or3.2.2 providing or paying for goods, services or facilities for them; or3.2.3 making grants of money to other persons or bodies who provide goods, services or facilities to those in need.

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating deficit of £1,651,329 for the year ended 31 March 2026, which was funded by cash withdrawn from reserves. The trustees consider the net assets of £10,177,390 to be an appropriate level of reserves, noting that unrestricted funds were nil and that the charity holds sufficient cash to cover three years of operating costs.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Gibson Whitter. Discloses 3 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Naval Children's Charity (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Clare Scherer — Chief Executive (source)
• Mr Christopher Tite — Chair of Trustees (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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 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 (84% 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: 7.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/08/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Charles Titechair
• Annette Penfold
• Captain Thomas Early
• Cdr Simon Howell
• Cdr Steve Warner
• Dr Linda Williams
• Ellen Riis-White
• Frances Bond
• Glyn Owen
• James Sergeant
• Kevin Arnold
• Michael Brockbank
• Michael Mchugh
• Nicholas Kassapakis

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ROYAL NAVAL BENEVOLENT TRUST (GRAND FLEET AND KINDRED FUNDS).

• THE ROYAL NAVAL BENEVOLENT TRUST (GRAND FLEET AND KINDRED FUNDS) income £11.3m
• THE ROYAL NAVY AND ROYAL MARINES CHARITY income £16.2m
• NORWICH UNIT NO 257 OF THE SEA CADET CORPS income £33k
• CROYDON UNIT 96 OF THE SEA CADET CORPS income £66k
• FORCES CHILDREN'S TRUST income £83k
• THE PORTISHEAD NAUTICAL TRUST income £118k

Side by side with its peers

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