Childs Charitable Trust

Analysis

Childs Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Somerset. It was registered in August 2013, 13 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 08635189). It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Childs Charitable Trust reported income of £330k and spending of £597k, spending 181% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £379k to £330k (-13%), an average of -3.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 61%. Over the whole period it spent 202% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Childs Charitable Trust sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 79% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Keswick Community Rugby Trust Limited (£330k), The C P Charitable Trust (£330k) and The Ada Hillard Charitable Trust (£329k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.