THE NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN

Registered charity 216401 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q3403284 · Wikipedia · also known as NSPCC · also registered in Scotland as SC037717 (OSCR)

1) TO PREVENT THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE WRONGS OF CHILDREN AND THE CORRUPTION OF THEIR MORALS; 2) TO TAKE ACTION FOR THE ENFORCEMENT OF LAWS FOR THEIR PROTECTION; 3) TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN AN ORGANISATION FOR THE ABOVE OBJECTS; 4) TO DO ALL OTHER SUCH LAWFUL THINGS AS ARE INCIDENTAL OR CONDUCIVE TO THE ATTAINMENT OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS

Objects

1) TO PREVENT THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE WRONGS OF CHILDREN AND THE CORRUPTION OF THEIR MORALS; 2) TO TAKE ACTION FOR THE ENFORCEMENT OF LAWS FOR THEIR PROTECTION; 3) TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN AN ORGANISATION FOR THE ABOVE OBJECTS; 4) TO DO ALL OTHER SUCH LAWFUL THINGS AS ARE INCIDENTAL OR CONDUCIVE TO THE ATTAINMENT OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased to £120.3 million while total expenditure was £122.2 million, resulting in a net movement in funds of £6.3 million. The charity holds unrestricted free reserves of £63.5 million, which the trustees consider equivalent to 5.9 months of forward expenditure, falling within their stated policy target of three to six months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• 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)

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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).

• As millions of schoolchildren break for the May half-term today, the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) has issued fresh guidance for parents grappling with childcare challenges and wondering at what age their son or daughter facebook.com · 22/05/2026
• As millions of schoolchildren break for the May half-term today, the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) has issued fresh guidance for parents grappling with childcare challenges and wondering at what age their son or daughter facebook.com · 22/05/2026

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Chris Sherwood — CEO (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.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Property (HM Land Registry)

19 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (7 freehold); recorded price paid £1.4m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustpilot: NSPCC scores 1.6/5 from 52 reviews (source) — reviews usually concern the charity’s shops or services, not its charitable performance.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~9.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 2.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 28.0% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/11/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/09/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/12/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Emma Scottchair
• Abigail Zein
• Albert Lawrence Heaney
• Emma Jane Smyth
• Gillian Bruton
• Ife Grillo
• Kathleen Ruth Saxton
• Ryan Jean Stourton den Rooijen
• Sajad Manzoor · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sheanna Patelmaster
• Stuart Alan Mark Rogers

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

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

Income and spending

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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

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR PEOPLE ABUSED IN CHILDHOOD.

• NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR PEOPLE ABUSED IN CHILDHOOD income £394k
• THE CHILDREN'S FAMILY TRUST income £9.7m
• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS WIRRAL AND CHESTER BRANCH income £764k
• NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BOYS' AND GIRLS' CLUBS income £66k
• NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR ABLE CHILDREN IN EDUCATION income £374k
• COUNTY IN THE COMMUNITY income £499k

Side by side with its peers

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