Child Safe Foundation

Analysis

Child Safe Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in East Ham. It was registered in August 2015, 11 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, the prevention or relief of poverty and amateur sport, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space, provides services and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending March 2023, Child Safe Foundation reported income of £157k and spending of £353k, spending 225% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2023, income fell from £484k to £157k (-68%), an average of -43% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income dropped by 76%. Over the whole period it spent 140% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Child Safe Foundation sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 78th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include KL Foundation (£157k), The League of Friends of the Totnes and District Hospitals (£157k) and Vitamin Angels UK (£157k).

Data notes from the register: The regulator lists this charity as in double default: it has missed the deadline for its annual return or accounts in two or more successive years.