THE CHILDREN'S TRUST

Registered charity 288018 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7722489 · Wikipedia · also known as TADWORTH COURT TRUST

The Children?s Trust is the UK?s leading charity for children with brain injury. We provide expert rehabilitation, education, therapy and care at our specialist centre in Tadworth, Surrey, supporting children and families from across the UK. We also offer services in communities around the country and online support for families.

Objects

I) FOR THE CARE, TREATMENT, REHABILITATION AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND OTHER PERSONS WITH PHYSICAL DISABILITIES, LEARNING DISABILITIES AND COMPLEX MEDICAL NEEDS, INCLUDING LIFE LIMITING OR LIFE THREATENING CONDITIONS AND NEUROLOGICAL DAMAGE ACQUIRED THROUGH ACCIDENT OR OTHER CAUSES; FOR THE SUPPORT OF FAMILIES AND OTHER CARERS INVOLVED; AND FOR THE PREVENTION OF SUCH DISABILITIES AND DISORDERS. ANDII) TO HOLD FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE FREEHOLD OF THE HERITAGE PROPERTY KNOWN AS TADWORTH COURT, TADWORTH, SURREY AND ITS CURTILAGE AND TO RESTORE, CONSERVE, IMPROVE AND MAINTAIN SUCH HERITAGE PROPERTY AND ALL THE BUILDINGS, WALLS, PARKS, GARDENS, WOODLANDS AND APPURTENANCES WITHIN ITS CURTILAGE.

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: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Reigate and Banstead, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £1.5m for the year ended 31 March 2025, improving its financial position compared to the previous year. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £2.5m, which remains below the stated policy target range of £3.9m to £7.5m, though the charity has positive cash flow projections for the next 12 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 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission; Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 13/03/2023, 41 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01757875

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Children's Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• HARRISON, Philip Roy — director, appointed 27/03/2026on trustee list
• POLLOCK, Louise — director, appointed 27/03/2026on trustee list
• HOGAN, Philip Richard — director, appointed 27/03/2026on trustee list
• RIVETT, Caroline Jane — director, appointed 23/01/2026on trustee list
• HARRIES, Lynn — director, appointed 28/11/2025on trustee list
• RALLS, Deborah — director, appointed 19/05/2025on trustee list
• GUEST, Richard James — director, appointed 19/05/2025on trustee list
• HEWITT, Helen — director, appointed 31/05/2024on trustee list
• FLANAGAN, Stephen David — director, appointed 14/07/2023on trustee list
• DAVIES, Tim John — director, appointed 09/10/2015on trustee list
• ROWNTREE, Olivia — secretary, appointed 02/09/2020

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

CQC provider record: The Children's Trust — Registered, 1 registered location, 2 regulated activities, last inspected 21/02/2024.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (25,923 followers) · instagram (7,391 followers)

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (81% 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: 11.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

• The Children's Trust - Tadworth: Not applicable (13/02/2026) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/09/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/04/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (24/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Caroline Rivett
• Deborah Ralls
• Helen Hewitt
• Louise Pollock
• Lynn Harries
• Philip Harrison
• Philip Hogan
• Richard Guest
• STEPHEN DAVID FLANAGAN
• Timothy John Davies · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: 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 CHILD BRAIN INJURY TRUST.

• CHILD BRAIN INJURY TRUST income £1.8m
• THE CHILD ACCIDENT PREVENTION TRUST income £329k
• CHILDREN'S RESPITE TRUST income £403k
• THE CHILDREN'S FAMILY TRUST income £9.7m
• THE CHILDRENS FOUNDATION LIMITED income £563k
• SEFTON CHILDRENS TRUST income £71k

Side by side with its peers

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