Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 11
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 15 ?

THE SAVE THE CHILDREN FUND

TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS AND TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF CHILDREN IN ANY COUNTRY OR COUNTRIES, WITHOUT DIFFERENTIATION ON THE GROUND OF RACE, COLOUR, NATIONALITY, CREED OR SEX TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC CONCERNING THE NATURE, CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF DISTRESS, AND WANT OF WELFARE AS AFORESAID, AND TO CONDUCT AND PROCURE RESEARCH CONCERNING THE SAME AND TO MAKE AVAILABLE THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why are there 14 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12?

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/12/23£296,015£295,425£590£35,912£73,580£55,8302.38853,230
31/12/22£294,356£286,371£7,985£32,114£69,675£50,1592.18623,689
31/12/21£240,409£235,928£4,481£30,791£64,477£44,9432.39043,955
31/12/20£288,730£283,161£5,569£28,488£58,616£42,1391.89254,500
31/12/19£307,365£308,899£-1,534£35,850£57,854£44,2661.71,0675,460
31/12/18£303,202£314,607£-11,405£37,254£50,834£32,7621.21,1390
31/12/17£406,558£408,063£-1,505£37,870£61,702£40,2761.21,1640
31/12/16£404,525£410,100£-5,575£34,927£42,011£10,4190.31,2090
31/12/15£389,717£381,884£7,833£35,163£59,561£23,8400.71,6960
31/12/14£370,290£348,371£21,919£38,509£108,094£13,1870.51,9970
31/12/13£342,594£308,912£33,682£40,452£93,748£9,5780.44,6240
31/12/12£283,748£317,033£-33,285£35,927£54,843£2,7840.14,0250
31/12/11£332,881£322,579£10,302£33,866£85,083£11,3070.44,9470
31/12/10?£291,472£266,552£24,920£26,754£81,905£20,9210.94,9550
31/03/09£216,008£208,132£7,876£28,150£54,829£19,6251.15,5550
31/03/08£160,777£156,279£4,498£23,547£60,140£28,3622.24,0760
31/03/07£148,432£139,898£8,534£22,640£56,889£25,4852.23,9480
31/03/06£161,187£147,910£13,277n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05*£130,535£123,406£7,129n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04*£131,622£132,821£-1,199n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 12.9%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 12.3%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 3%
Highest pay band: £150,000-£200,000
Liabilities/Assets: 47%
Liabilities/Income: 22%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 76%
Reserves/Spending: 2.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 0.1
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 62 years
(103 years as a company)

www.savethechildren.org.uk

supporter.care@savethechildren.org.uk

02070126400

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UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • Overseas Aid/Famine Relief
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • International healthcare & famine relief
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Makes grants to organisations
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Afghanistan, Albania, Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bhutan, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burma, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo (Democratic Republic), Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Nepal, Netherlands, ....more
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Postcode Education Trust£7,120,000
LUND TRUST£1,750,000
Department of Health£1,539,154
The Ballinger Charitable Trust£127,970
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Postcode Education Trust - Regular Grant 2023
£4,100,000 28/02/2023
Regular unrestricted award
Rothschild Foundation - Grant to Save the Children
£25,000 12/02/2023
Support for the emergency response to the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria.
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Save the Children
£50,000 08/06/2022
Further support for Ukraine emergency
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Save the Children
£50,000 08/06/2022
Support for Ukraine Emergency
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Save the Children
£2,200 11/05/2022
As requested by the donor towards supporting the welfare of children all over the world.
LUND TRUST - Towards Save the Children's Ukraine appeal.
£1,750,000 31/03/2022
Towards Save the Children's Ukraine appeal.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Ukraine Appeal
£6,000 03/03/2022
Ukraine Appeal
Rothschild Foundation - Grant to Save the Children
£50,000 02/03/2022
Save the Children Ukraine Appeal
Postcode Education Trust - Regular Grant 2022
£3,020,000 09/02/2022
Regular unrestricted award
The Ballinger Charitable Trust - Grant to Save the Children (Wallsend Children's Community)
£100,000 01/10/2021
Wallsend Children's Community
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£99,173 05/10/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
The Ballinger Charitable Trust - Grant to Save the Children re: Wallsend
£27,970 18/09/2020
12
Supporting Wallsend Children's Community project
Department of Health - Save the Save the Children UK ELHRA
£1,539,154 01/04/2020
The aim of R2HC is to develop more effective responses to humanitarian challenges by providing significant funding for high-quality research on the effectiveness of health interventions in humanitarian crises.
Wates Family Enterprise Trust - Save the Children
£3,200 28/02/2019
Summer in the City supports the Children's Emergency Fund.
The Ballinger Charitable Trust - Grant to Save the Children re: Wallsend
£48,420 21/09/2018
24
Story of Place
The Ballinger Charitable Trust - Grant to Save the Children re: Wallsend
£250,000 21/09/2018
36
Wallsend Children's Community
Nuffield Foundation - Education grant
£406,925 25/06/2018
Randomised Controlled Efficacy Trial of Families Connect
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office - SUN Civil Society Network Secretariat
£310,791 01/04/2018
This fund provides support to small and medium scale new or emerging humanitarian responses in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Tedworth Charitable Trust - Famine relief in Somalia
£5,000 20/04/2017
Towards famine relief in Somalia.
Comic Relief - Tuwekeze Pamoja: Working together to give children in Tanzania a better start to life
£2,500,000 15/03/2017
60
For a child growing up in rural Tanzania the chance of staying in school and achieving the grades needed to go to secondary school is low. This project aims to give children from birth to age 6 the best possible start to life by working with ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Families and Schools Together (FAST)
£385,000 08/10/2015
36
Families and Schools Together (FAST)
Comic Relief - Supporting kindergartens for Syrian children in Jordan
£287,616 30/09/2015
12
Provision of essential early childhood care and development services for pre-school aged children through our existing kindergarten programme. Children and parents will be provided psychosocial support and participate in structured playing and ....more
Comic Relief - Providing education to refugee and displaced children and youth in South Sudan and Ethiopia
£244,874 30/09/2015
12
As a result of the continuing conflict in South Sudan, large numbers of people have moved east towards the border with Ethiopia. Children and young people, many already traumatized, face the risk of further violence and conscription into local ....more
Comic Relief - Creative support to action/2015 and Project Everyone
£212,062 15/07/2015
6
Creative support to Project Everyone (development of creative assets and development of Africa hubs to ensure PE resonates in this key territory) and creative support the action/2015 South Africa coalition to ensure wider impact and reach of ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Building Sustainable Livelihoods and Resilient Communities
£3,238,474 28/03/2015
36
Not Available
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to Save The Children
£150,000 25/03/2015
36
To establish Children’s Communities in four disadvantaged local authorities and develop a pipeline of coordinated support which follows children from cradle to career and cuts across their family, school and community lives.
National Lottery Community Fund - Eat, Sleep, Learn, Play! (ESLP!)
£344,810 25/06/2013
24
Funded through Support and Connect this organisation will extend its Eat, Sleep, Learn, Play initiative to six areas of Scotland with high levels of deprivation. The project will support families living in desperate need to cope with the financial ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Improving Maternal and Newborn Health in Myanmar
£440,000 28/03/2012
36
This project, based in Sangaing Division, Myanmar, aims to improve maternal and newborn health in 130 villages in Kani Township.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (14)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 12/14 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 32-72
  • ARABELLA ELIZABETH DUFFIELD Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Director And Trustee
  • BABATUNDE SOYOYE Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Managing Partner
  • CATHERINE ANN DORAN Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Non Executive Director
  • DIANNA PATRICIA MELROSE Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Retired/Former British Diplomat
  • DR TSITSI DADIRAI CHAWATAMA-KWAMBANA (Chair) Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Consultant Paediatrician
  • JESSICA CATHERINE GLADSTONE Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Lawyer
  • JANE CAROLINE LONG Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Chief Executive
  • JASON DANIEL GRAEME ALLEN Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Charity Director
  • KAJAL ODEDRA Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Executive Director
  • KIRTBIR KAUR CHAHAL Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Civil Servant
  • LAURA CATHERINE KING Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Marketing Director
  • RAZIA KHAN Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Economist
  • RICHARD THOMAS GEORGE WINTER Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Chartered Accountant
  • TIMOTHY FALLOWFIELD Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Solicitor
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 10/10/1962, number: 213890
  • Registered at Companies House on 01/12/1921, number: 00178159
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR05: 1 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from MISS M L WATTS CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE SETTLEMENT DATED 31ST MARCH 1966 on 17/12/2020
  • Asset transfer in from THE LYCETT HUMANITARIAN TRUST on 03/02/2021
  • Asset transfer in from ROYAL ANTEDILUVIAN ORDER OF BUFFALOES GRAND COUNCIL CONVALESCENT FUND on 12/05/2021
  • Asset transfer in from MISS S M G ROSS TRUST on 22/07/2021
Main office

Save the Children
1 St. John's Lane
LONDON
EC1M 4AR

Objectives

TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS AND HARDSHIP, AND TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF CHILDREN IN ANY COUNTRY OR COUNTRIES, PLACE OR PLACES WITHOUT DIFFERENTIATION ON THE GROUND OF RACE, COLOUR, NATIONALITY, CREED OR SEX AND TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC CONCERNING THE NATURE, CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF DISTRESS, HARDSHIP AND WANT OF WELFARE AS AFORESAID, AND TO CONDUCT AND PROCURE RESEARCH CONCERNING THE SAME AND TO MAKE AVAILABLE THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF TO THE PUBLIC.

Defined Area of Benefit:

WORLDWIDE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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