STARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION

Registered charity 296058 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as STARLIGHT · also registered in Scotland as SC047600 (OSCR)

To brighten the lives of seriously and terminally ill children by providing play and distraction in healthcare settings (throughout UK and NI) to help take their minds off the pain, fear and isolation caused by their illness.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £1.06m, with total reserves at £1.51m, which the trustees consider to be within their stated policy target of £1.5m to £1.7m. The charity reported a deficit for the year of £362,977, driven by lower fundraising income in a non-event year, but maintains that it has sufficient resources to continue operations for the next twelve months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Starlight UK (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Cathy Gilman — CEO (source)
• Alain Wolffe — Chair (source)
• James Ronaldson — Director of Finance (source)
• Jonny Wright — Director of Income Generation and Engagement (source)
• Laura Walsh — Director of Play in Healthcare (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title 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.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 47.3% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/09/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/12/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/11/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Abigail Robbins
• Alain Nathaniel Wolffe
• Christopher Kelly
• Hans Christian Pau
• Ian James Harding
• Michael Daniels
• Paul Gathercole

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

Operates in: Isle Of Man · Jersey · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 SICKKIDS FOUNDATION UK.

• SICKKIDS FOUNDATION UK income £304k
• The Charlie & Carter Foundation Limited income £275k
• THE SICK CHILDREN'S TRUST income £2.7m
• BRIGHT HORIZONS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN (UK) income £166k
• BBC CHILDREN IN NEED income £61.0m
• THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CHARITY income £5.4m

Side by side with its peers

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