CHILD POVERTY ACTION GROUP

Registered charity 294841 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5097769 · Wikipedia · also known as CPAG · also registered in Scotland as SC039339 (OSCR)

Child Poverty Action Group is a charity, working for children in the UK. We believe no child should grow up in hardship or lose out through poverty. Our aim is to prevent and end child poverty by advocating evidence-based solutions to policy-makers and providing accurate information and advice so families can access the financial support they need.

Objects

TO PREVENT POVERTY AMONG CHILDREN AND FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN AND TO PROMOTE ACTION FOR THE RELIEF DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY OF SUCH POVERTY

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £132,708 for the year ended 31 March 2026, with total income increasing to £6,261,932. Free reserves held were £2,062,439, which exceeded the trustees' required level of £1,625,000, providing a degree of financial resilience. The trustees concluded that the charity is a going concern and will be able to continue its operations for at least twelve months from the date of the report.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac 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)

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 — Child Poverty Action Group (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 8.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/03/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor Jane Millarchair
• Alicia Tew
• Ann McVie
• Anne-Marie Canning MBE · trustee of 2 other charities
• Esther Kuku
• Ian Simon Thompson
• Kitty Stewart · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mark Cooke
• Mike Brewer
• Satwat Rehman
• Stephen John Watmough

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

Operates in: Scotland · 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 ACTION FOR CHILDREN.

• ACTION FOR CHILDREN income £163.4m
• CHILD ACTION NORTHWEST income £8.0m
• CHURCH ACTION ON POVERTY LIMITED income £430k
• THE CHILDREN'S FAMILY TRUST income £9.7m
• HANDICAPPED CHILDRENS ACTION GROUP income £383k
• CHILDREN'S AID income £377k

Side by side with its peers

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