THE ACTORS' CHILDREN'S TRUST

Registered charity 1177106 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Grant, advice and support for the children of professional actors and their families, throughout the UK.

Objects

3.1 THE CIO'S OBJECTS (THE OBJECTS) ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:3.1.1 THE SUPPORT OF THE CHILDREN OF PROFESSIONAL ACTORS WHO ARE IN NEED BY VIRTUE OF ILLNESS, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE. 3.1.2 SUBJECT TO CLAUSE 3.1.1, THE SUPPORT OF PROFESSIONAL ACTORS OR THEIR DEPENDANTS WHO ARE IN NEED BY VIRTUE OF AGE, ILLNESS, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE.

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the financial statements are prepared on a basis other than going concern because the charity merged with The Royal Theatrical Fund after the year end, with substantially all assets, liabilities, and activities expected to be transferred. The management representation letter confirms that all transactions were properly recorded and that the financial statements are free of material misstatements.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Haslers Assurance LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2025) → not a going concern (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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 — Actors' Children's Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/06/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alasdair Evans
• Annie Campbell
• Daniel Hill
• Genevieve Allenbury · trustee of 1 other charity
• James Curtis
• Julia Watson
• Kate Humphrey
• Lee Dean · trustee of 1 other charity
• Myette Francis Whalley
• Rebecca Crankshaw · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robert Noble · trustee of 2 other charities
• Sir Stephen Waley-Cohen Bt · trustee of 4 other charities

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

Operates in: Guernsey · Isle Of Man · Jersey · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

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.

• Sir Stephen Waley-Cohen Bt — trustee here and at ACTING FOR OTHERS

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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 ACTORS' BENEVOLENT FUND.

• THE ACTORS' BENEVOLENT FUND income £1.9m
• THE ROYAL THEATRICAL SUPPORT TRUST income £82k
• ACTING FOR OTHERS income £211k
• ACTORS WORKSHOP YOUTH THEATRE COMPANY income £49k
• ARTLESS THEATRE TRUST income £107k
• THE ADOLESCENT AND CHILDREN'S TRUST income £27.8m

Side by side with its peers

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