AllChild

Registered charity 1160947 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WEST LONDON ZONE, WLZ

The charity aims to promote the care and upbringing of every child and every young person with a disadvantaged background who lives in or has a close connection to the West London Zone, by supporting positive family relationships, advancing education, promoting health and making the most of each such child and young person?s potential.

Objects

The objects of the Charity are to promote the care and upbringing of children and young people with disadvantaged backgrounds by supporting positive family relationships, advancing education, promoting health and otherwise making the most of children and young people’s potential and improving their conditions of life.

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Hammersmith and Fulham, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £596,841 for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in a decrease in total funds to £2,318,579. The trustees consider the current unrestricted reserves of £2,040,083 to be adequate, targeting a level between three to six months of operational expenditure. The charity confirmed it has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "above" (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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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 08991196

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Louisa Mitchell MBE — Chief Executive (source)
• Ben Cartledge — Chief Operating Officer (source)
• Ochuko Adekoya — Director of Communications and Engagement (source)
• Joe Prendiville — Innovation Director (source)
• Jaime Smith MBE — Programme Director (source)
• Claire Bennett — People and Culture Director (source)
• Tom Corbett — Finance Director (source)
• Mark Evans — Regional Director (London) (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.

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.

• BELL-JONES, Robin — director, appointed 31/03/2026on trustee list
• CAULKIN, Christopher John — director, appointed 31/03/2026on trustee list
• FORTE, Lydia Irene Bianca — director, appointed 09/07/2025on trustee list
• WINTERBOTTOM, James Michael — director, appointed 10/04/2025on trustee list
• HORNBY, Victoria — director, appointed 10/04/2025on trustee list
• WRIGHT, Chris — director, appointed 20/07/2022on trustee list
• HUSBANDS, Carlos Anthony — director, appointed 20/07/2022on trustee list
• MISSI, Farial Asma — director, appointed 29/03/2022on trustee list
• HUMPHREYS, Elizabeth — director, appointed 04/02/2022on trustee list
• STOREY, John Douglas — director, appointed 20/06/2018on trustee list
• MCGRATH, Harvey Andrew, Sir — director, appointed 24/04/2018on trustee list
• JAMES, Jocelyn Ann — director, appointed 26/01/2016on trustee list
• MITCHELL, Louisa Jane — secretary, appointed 01/06/2015

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.9 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 (78% 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: 12.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• SIR HARVEY MCGRATHchair
• CARLOS HUSBANDS
• Chris Wright
• Christopher John Caulkin
• ELIZABETH HUMPHREYS
• Farial Missi
• James Michael Winterbottom
• Jocelyn James
• John Storey
• Lydia Irene Bianca Forte · trustee of 2 other charities
• ROBIN BELL-JONES
• Victoria Hornby · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Hammersmith And Fulham · Kensington And Chelsea

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

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 EVERY PARENT & CHILD.

• EVERY PARENT & CHILD income £200k
• FRONTLINE CHILDREN income £13k
• CHILD ACTION NORTHWEST income £8.0m
• ACTION FOR CHILDREN income £163.4m
• ACHIEVING GOALZ AND DREAMS income £81k
• KIDS CARE LONDON income £780k

Side by side with its peers

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