GOLDEN LION CHILDREN'S TRUST

Registered charity 272993 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GLCT

Fund raising and helping disadvantaged children

Objects

TO PROMOTE CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS AND PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF CHILDREN.

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.

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The Golden Lion Children's Trust reported a deficit of £9,758.73 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total expenditure exceeding total income. Despite this deficit, the charity held unrestricted cash funds of £27,822 at the end of the period, which the trustees stated they would keep under review alongside planned expenditure.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

• 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
• 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 — Golden Lion Children's Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• Arnold Clark Community Fund — “Arnold Clark Community Fund” (source page)
• Baily Thomas Charitable Trust — “Baily Thomas Charitable Trust” (source page)
• Garfield Weston Charitable Foundation — “Garfield Weston Charitable Foundation” (source page)
• Gatwick Airport Community Trust — “Gatwick Airport Community Trust” (source page)
• Sussex Community Foundation — “Sussex Community Foundation” (source page)
• Wellesley Charitable Foundation — “Wellesley Charitable Foundation” (source page)

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christine Helen Rodgers
• Duncan Mackay
• Leanne Collingwood
• Lindsey Biss
• Liz Le Roux
• SIMON HEAD
• Steven Cooley
• Sue Sephton

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

Operates in: East Sussex · Surrey · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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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 GB TRUST.

• THE GB TRUST income £57k
• FULL FACT income £3.1m
• YOUR KIDS AROUND THE WORLD income £172k
• THE GLEDSWOOD CHARITABLE TRUST income £89k
• BEDFORDSHIRE CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED income £372k
• GOLDEN CHARITABLE TRUST income £30k

Side by side with its peers

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