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Description

We protect and support children and young people, providing practical and emotional care and support, ensuring their voices are heard, and campaigning to bring lasting improvements to their lives. Last year, we helped more than 387,000 children and families across the UK.

Also known as

  • Action for Children
  • Action For Children
  • Action For Children- Wales
  • Action for Children
  • Action for Children - Bridgend Young Carers Project
  • Action for Children - Early Intervention Service
  • Action for Children - Elgin Residential Unit
  • Action for Children - England
  • Action for Children - Fareham
  • Action for Children Aberdeen Priority Families Service
  • ...and 20 other names
  • Action for Children Bolton Children's Rights
  • Action for Children Bury Social Opportunities
  • Action for Children Bury Social Opportunities Service
  • Action for Children Cornwall S.P.A.C.E.
  • Action for Children Torridge Children's Centre
  • Action for Children West Lothian Housing Support
  • Action for Children's Essex Short Breaks
  • Action for Children's Fostering Ramsgate
  • Action for Children, Clackmannanshire Family Support Service.
  • Baby Steps
  • Cornwall SPACE
  • Culm valley children's centre (action for children)
  • Dartmouth Children's Centre
  • Furness Child Contact Centre
  • Kernow Young Carers
  • My Start Children's Centre
  • NCH
  • Short Breaks @ West Hyde
  • Teignbridge Children's Centre
  • Torridge Children's Centre Bideford

CCEW Charity number

1097940

Company number

04764232

Registered

Postcode

WD18 8AG

Website

actionforchildren.org.uk

Latest income

£149,787,000 (on )

This organisation record is based on data from Registered charities in England and Wales published by Charity Commission for England and Wales.

Action for Children

GB-CHC-1097940

Locations

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Registered Office in the UK

Action for Children

GB-CHC-1097940

Linked records

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This organisation record is part of a group of linked records that describe a single organisation. The organisation is linked to 3 active records and 0 inactive records, from 3 data sources.

The best identifier for this organisation is GB-CHC-1097940 .
What is an organisation identifier?

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Examples include charity numbers and company numbers.

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GB-CHC gives the scheme for this identifier (Charity Commission), while 1097940 is the identifier for this organisation within the scheme.

Action for Children (this record)

Organisation record from Charity Commission for England and Wales
Last updated 2024-03-27

Action For Children

Organisation record from Office of Scottish Charity Regulator
Last updated 2024-03-21

Action for Children

Organisation record from Companies House
Last updated 2024-03-23

Action for Children

GB-CHC-1097940

Themes and activities

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This organisation has been classified using different categories:

International Classification of Non-profit and Third Sector Organizations (ICNP/TSO)

ICNP/TSO categories have been automatically assigned from a machine learning model, as part of the UK Charity Classification project.

  • Child and youth services D11

UK Charity Activity Tags

These tags are taken from a project to classify all UK charities using a common set of tags. The tags are applied using keyword searching, so may be incorrect for particular cases.

Visit charityclassification.org.uk for more information on the project. If you have any feedback on the classification system or how it has been applied there is a form on the project homepage.

  • Beneficiary group BE » Children BE102
  • Beneficiary group BE » Families BE103
  • Beneficiary group BE » Young people BE115
  • Charitable activities CA » Policy campaigning and advocacy CA103

Theme (CCEW)

  • General Charitable Purposes 101
  • Education/training 102
  • Disability 104
  • Accommodation/housing 107
  • Other Charitable Purposes 117

Beneficiaries (CCEW)

  • Children/young People 201

Activities (CCEW)

  • Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space 305
  • Provides Services 306
  • Provides Advocacy/advice/information 307
  • Sponsors Or Undertakes Research 308

Scale of operation

  • National

Action for Children

GB-CHC-1097940

Charity financial history

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Year ending Income (£) Spending (£)
2003-06-11 Registered as a charity
2004-03-31 0
2005-03-31 207,093,000 202,122,000
2006-03-31 219,456,000 239,367,000
2007-03-31 217,711,000 214,019,000
2008-03-31 209,568,000 199,883,000
2009-03-31 200,408,000 205,783,000
2010-03-31 194,662,000 199,333,000
2011-03-31 196,156,000 198,796,000
2012-03-31 197,962,000 184,093,000
2013-03-31 180,029,000 172,637,000
2014-03-31 179,670,000 168,484,000
2015-03-31 173,070,000 159,887,000
2016-03-31 160,884,000 157,144,000
2017-03-31 159,830,000 156,841,000
2018-03-31 151,341,000 148,817,000
2019-03-31 150,836,000 149,289,000
2020-03-31 147,651,000 147,851,000
2021-03-31 145,212,000 139,397,000
2022-03-31 142,648,000 139,354,000
2023-03-31 149,787,000 149,390,000
Income and Spending
Funds and Reserves

Data on funds and reserves are only available for financial years where the charity's income was more than £500,000.

Action for Children

GB-CHC-1097940

Charity people

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2023
£
2022
£
Employees 4,429 4,498
Employees paid more than £60,000 58 50
Volunteers 1,006 2,553
Trustees 11
Employees
Volunteers

Data on employees is only available for financial years where the charity's income was more than £500,000.

Action for Children

GB-CHC-1097940

Statement of Financial Activities

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Statement of financial activities for year ended .

Based on information provided to the Charity Commission for England and Wales in the charity's annual return. This may not exactly match the figures and categories supplied in the charity's annual accounts.

2023
£m
2022
£m
Incoming resources
Donations and other voluntary income 13.9 12.4
Legacies 4.6 3.9
Endowments - -
Donations and legacies 18.6 16.2
Income from charitable activities 129.9 125.4
Income from other trading activities - -
Income from investments 1.3 0.9
Other income 0.0 0.1
Total 149.8 142.6
Expenditure
Investment management 0.1 0.1
Other spending on raising funds 6.3 5.3
Spending on raising funds 6.3 5.3
Grants to institutions - -
Other charitable activities 143.1 134.0
Charitable activities 143.1 134.0
Other spending - -
Total 149.4 139.4
Net income / (expenditure) 0.4 3.3

Action for Children

GB-CHC-1097940

Balance sheet

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Balance sheet at .

Based on information provided to the Charity Commission for England and Wales in the charity's annual return. This may not exactly match the figures and categories supplied in the charity's annual accounts.

2023
£m
2022
£m
Fixed assets
Tangible and intangible assets 23.0 18.4
Investment assets 39.6 41.3
62.5 59.7
Current assets
Current investment assets - -
Cash 6.6 13.4
Other current assets 34.2 37.0
40.8 50.3
Creditors
Amounts falling due within one year (20.3) (23.7)
Net current assets 20.5 26.6
Total assets less current liabilities 83.1 86.4
Creditors
Amounts falling due after one year (2.3) (2.3)
Net assets 80.8 84.0
Funds
Endowment funds 11.0 11.7
Restricted funds 7.5 7.3
Unrestricted funds 62.3 65.1
80.8 84.0

Action for Children

GB-CHC-1097940

Income from government

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2023
£
2022
£
Contracts with government
Income from government contracts 84,431,000 86,502,000
Government contracts as % of total income 56.4% 60.6%
Number of government contracts 305 295
Government grants
Income from government grants 153,000 114,000
Government grants as % of total income 0.1% 0.1%
Number of government grants 5 1

Action for Children

GB-CHC-1097940

Grants received

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Received 134 grants. Showing most recent 10 grants.

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Date Funder Amount awarded Description
City Bridge Trust
Support for children and young people
£149,990 Grant to Action for Children
William Grant Foundation
Youth Opportunities - Moray
£17,165
5 months
Moray Sonas Wellbeing Service
Apr 2024 to Sep 2024
Sport England
Small Grants
£13,240
10 months
Supporting children into cycling at Pedal Power North Devon
Sep 2023 to Aug 2024
Co-operative Group £2,112 Grant to Action for Children Bury Social Opportunities Service
Co-operative Group £1,157 Grant to Clackmannanshire Family Support Services
Co-operative Group £1,764 Grant to Action for Children
Prudence Trust £535,000 Parents and Carers 2023: Action for Children
Cornwall Community Foundation
Police Property Act Fund
£1,300 Kernow Connect ASB Detached Program
Cornwall Community Foundation
Integrated Care Board Programme
£8,562 Connect and Explore
The National Lottery Community Fund
National Lottery Awards for All Wales
£10,000
3 months
Action for Children mental wellbeing project North Wales
Apr 2023 to Jul 2023

Data source

Some grants data comes from funders who publish data using the 360Giving Data Standard. It was accessed using the 360Giving Datastore.

Action for Children

GB-CHC-1097940

Services regulated by the Care Quality Commission

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Registered as a provider with the Care Quality Commissionlaunch (id: 1-101673126)

CQC Provider: Action for Childrenlaunch

Services:

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