THE SAVE THE CHILDREN FUND

Registered charity 213890 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q110909603 · also known as SAVE THE CHILDREN · also registered in Scotland as SC039570 (OSCR)

TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS AND TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF CHILDREN IN ANY COUNTRY OR COUNTRIES, WITHOUT DIFFERENTIATION ON THE GROUND OF RACE, COLOUR, NATIONALITY, CREED OR SEX TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC CONCERNING THE NATURE, CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF DISTRESS, AND WANT OF WELFARE AS AFORESAID, AND TO CONDUCT AND PROCURE RESEARCH CONCERNING THE SAME AND TO MAKE AVAILABLE THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS AND HARDSHIP, AND TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF CHILDREN IN ANY COUNTRY OR COUNTRIES, PLACE OR PLACES WITHOUT DIFFERENTIATION ON THE GROUND OF RACE, COLOUR, NATIONALITY, CREED OR SEX AND TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC CONCERNING THE NATURE, CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF DISTRESS, HARDSHIP AND WANT OF WELFARE AS AFORESAID, AND TO CONDUCT AND PROCURE RESEARCH CONCERNING THE SAME AND TO MAKE AVAILABLE THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF TO THE PUBLIC.

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of £9.7 million, resulting in total funds of £60.9 million. The trustees confirmed that sufficient reserves and cash resources exist to continue operations for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainties regarding going concern. The charity also noted that it is managing financial pressures from international aid cuts by matching potential income shortfalls with cost reductions.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by KPMG LLP. Discloses 5 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
• 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.

In the news

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

• Nigerian Energy Magnate Femi Otedola Donates $14 Million To Save The Children Fund forbes.com · 11/11/2019
• Texas Southern University Athletics receives grant from Save the Children Fund stylemagazine.com · 19/10/2018
• [Withdrawn] Charity Commission opens statutory inquiry into The Save the Children Fund gov.uk · 11/04/2018
• Guernsey Overseas Aid Commission contributes to the Save the Children Fund West Africa Ebola Appeal bailiwickexpress.com · 14/10/2014

What the charity says about itself (2025)

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Luisa Dörr — CEO (source)
• Helen Philpot — Corporate Advisory Board member (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• GSK — “Every penny raised has been matched by GSK, helping thousands of children access life-saving healthcare – no matter where they happen to hav…” (source page)
• Prudence Foundation — “For over a decade, Prudence Foundation and Save the Children have worked in partnership to develop and deliver pioneering programmes to incr…” (source page)
• Bvlgari — “Honouring Bvlgari’s ongoing philanthropic partnership with Save the Children, for every piece of Bvlgari’s Save the Children jewellery colle…” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

83 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £107k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustpilot: Save the Children UK scores 1.6/5 from 37 reviews (source) — reviews usually concern the charity’s shops or services, not its charitable performance.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (475,960 likes) · instagram (227K followers)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 2.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 15.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/09/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/12/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/03/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (03/01/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Tsitsi Dadirai Chawatama-Kwambanachair
• Catherine Ann Doran
• Dr Tamsyn Sherlle Barton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kajal Odedra
• Laura Catherine King
• Richard Thomas George WINTER · trustee of 2 other charities
• Stuart Russell McMinnies
• TIMOTHY FALLOWFIELD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Victoria Campbell Unnerup

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

Operates in: Afghanistan · Albania · Australia · Bangladesh · Belgium · Bhutan · Bolivia · Brazil · Burkina Faso · Burma · Cambodia · Central African Republic

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 VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY.

• VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY income £7.2m
• Save a Child income £182k
• SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN income £7.2m
• SAVE A CHILD'S HEART income £47k
• THE CHILDRENS FOUNDATION LIMITED income £563k
• FRONTLINE CHILDREN income £13k

Side by side with its peers

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