THE SICK CHILDREN'S TRUST

Registered charity 284416 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Sick Children's Trust provides essential accommodation and amenities (Homes from Home) for the families and carers of sick children undergoing treatment at a number of hospitals around the country.

Objects

(a) To help aid the recovery of seriously ill children in hospital in Great Britain and Northern Ireland by supporting the well-being of the family.(b) The Charity provides 'Home from Home' accommodation for families and carers of sick children undergoing treatment at hospitals across Great Britain and Northern Ireland.(c) To work towards a future where no child in Great Britain and Northern Ireland faces hospital alone by giving their family a place to stay, free of charge, just minutes from their bedside.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a net expenditure of £477,168 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £6,459,428 to £5,982,260. Despite this deficit, the trustees confirmed the charity remains a going concern with sufficient cash resources of £1,201,253 to meet liabilities as they fall due. Free unrestricted reserves stood at £962,447, which is above the stated policy target of between £291,915 and £875,746.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by UNW 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
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01618435

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Sick 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).

• Red Sky Foundation — “Red Sky Foundation's £30,000 donation to Scott House will help families stay close to seriously ill children at Newcastle's Freeman Hospital…” (source page)

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.

• CURRAN, Donna Elizabeth — director, appointed 05/06/2026on trustee list
• CHENG, Man Yeung — director, appointed 05/06/2026on trustee list
• ROBERTSON, Mei-Lin — director, appointed 24/03/2025on trustee list
• RYAN, Aileen Mary — director, appointed 19/09/2024on trustee list
• FENNELL, Darren James — director, appointed 06/07/2024on trustee list
• KESTER, Deborah — director, appointed 13/12/2023on trustee list
• PLANE, David Anthony — director, appointed 13/12/2023on trustee list
• STAVELEY, Polly Eleanor Olivia — director, appointed 12/12/2013on trustee list
• BLAKEMORE, Fiona Jane Conway — director, appointed 18/09/2012on trustee list
• CUNARD, Peter John — directoron trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

9 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~21.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (87% 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: 38.0% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/08/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Aileen Ryan
• Darren Fennell
• David Plane
• Deborah Kester
• Donna Elizabeth Curran
• FIONA JANE CONWAY BLAKEMORE
• Man Yeung Cheng
• Mei-Lin Robertson
• PETER CUNARD
• POLLY ELEANOR OLIVIA STAVELEY

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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 CHILDREN'S RESPITE TRUST.

• CHILDREN'S RESPITE TRUST income £403k
• TRANSPORT FOR SICK CHILDREN LIMITED income £170k
• THE CHILDREN'S FAMILY TRUST income £9.7m
• CHILDREN ON THE EDGE income £1.9m
• THE CHILDHOOD TRUST income £3.3m
• STROUD & DISTRICT HOMES FOUNDATION LIMITED income £2.6m

Side by side with its peers

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