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Wellchild

A Registered Charity based in the UK

Active Registered Charity (England and Wales) Registered Company Incorporated Charity

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GB-COH-01815689

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Description

WellChild is the UK's national charity for sick children. The charity's work is focused on ensuring that all children and young people in the UK - especially those with serious illness, complex health conditions or long-term care needs - have the very best possible quality of care and support.

Also known as

  • Charico
  • Children Nationwide Medical Research Fund
  • Wellchild
  • The Wellchild Trust
  • Well Child
  • WellChild
  • The WellChild Trust

CCEW Charity number

289600

Company number

01815689

Registered

Postcode

Chelt enh

Website

wellchild.org.uk

Domain

wellchild.org.uk

Latest income

£2,186,824 (on )

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

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Locations

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Areas of operation in the UK

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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 4 active records and 0 inactive records, from 4 data sources.

The best identifier for this organisation is GB-CHC-289600 .
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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.

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  • Beneficiary group BE » Children BE102
  • Beneficiary group BE » Young people BE115
  • Health HE

Theme (CCEW)

  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 103

Beneficiaries (CCEW)

  • Children/young People 201

Activities (CCEW)

  • Makes Grants To Organisations 302
  • Provides Human Resources 304
  • Provides Services 306
  • Provides Advocacy/advice/information 307
  • Sponsors Or Undertakes Research 308

Scale of operation

  • National

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Charity financial history

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Year ending Income (£) Spending (£)
1984-07-07 Registered as a charity
2004-03-31 1,787,781 1,384,725
2005-03-31 1,087,558 1,360,095
2006-03-31 1,540,315 1,454,236
2007-03-31 1,896,459 1,973,938
2008-03-31 3,061,559 2,598,425
2009-03-31 2,045,347 1,851,302
2010-03-31 1,388,766 1,696,536
2011-03-31 1,863,865 1,681,655
2012-03-31 1,823,295 2,046,255
2013-03-31 2,209,803 2,324,236
2014-03-31 2,533,153 2,617,579
2015-03-31 3,390,700 3,299,126
2016-03-31 2,435,724 2,547,268
2017-03-31 2,344,327 2,403,229
2018-03-31 2,430,814 2,408,242
2019-03-31 2,921,983 2,570,365
2020-03-31 2,944,307 2,580,136
2021-03-31 1,933,852 2,001,773
2022-03-31 1,274,921 1,600,931
2023-03-31 2,186,824 2,110,751
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.

Wellchild

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Charity people

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2023
£		 2022
£
Employees 26 28
Employees paid more than £60,000 1 1
Volunteers 403 386
Trustees 10
Employees
Volunteers

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

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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
£000s 		2022
£000s
Incoming resources
Donations and other voluntary income 849.5 533.8
Legacies 43.8 34.4
Endowments - -
Donations and legacies 893.4 568.2
Income from charitable activities - 5.1
Income from other trading activities 1,005.4 676.5
Income from investments 7.9 3.7
Other income 280.2 21.4
Total 2,186.8 1,274.9
Expenditure
Investment management - -
Other spending on raising funds 741.6 538.7
Spending on raising funds 741.6 538.7
Grants to institutions 480.8 0.7
Other charitable activities 888.3 1,061.5
Charitable activities 1,369.2 1,062.2
Other spending - -
Total 2,110.8 1,600.9
Net income / (expenditure) 76.1 (326.0)

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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
£000s 		2022
£000s
Fixed assets
Tangible and intangible assets 0.1 565.6
Investment assets - -
0.1 565.6
Current assets
Current investment assets 1,073.0 1,057.2
Cash 724.1 225.4
Other current assets 902.5 501.8
2,699.7 1,784.4
Creditors
Amounts falling due within one year (989.5) (966.9)
Net current assets 1,710.2 817.6
Total assets less current liabilities 1,710.3 1,383.2
Creditors
Amounts falling due after one year (360.2) (109.2)
Net assets 1,350.0 1,274.0
Funds
Endowment funds - -
Restricted funds 139.7 40.3
Unrestricted funds 1,210.3 1,233.7
1,350.0 1,274.0

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Income from government

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2023
£		 2022
£
Contracts with government
Income from government contracts - 5,140
Government contracts as % of total income - 0.4%
Number of government contracts - 1
Government grants
Income from government grants - 21,429
Government grants as % of total income - 1.7%
Number of government grants - 4

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Grants received

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Received 14 grants. Showing most recent 10 grants.

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Date Funder Amount awarded Description
True Colours Trust £100,000
2 years 		Towards its Family Services team
Jul 2021 to Jul 2023
Comic Relief
Tech for Good 		£70,000
9 months 		Local Services Wiki for families caring for complex needs children
Jun 2021 to May 2022
The National Lottery Community Fund
RC England Wide 		£89,702
6 months 		WellChild Family Tree
Aug 2020 to Feb 2021
Scottish Government
Wellbeing Fund - Open call - Round 2 		£5,551
3.9672131147540983 months 		WellChild
Apr 2020 to Jul 2020
True Colours Trust £100,000
1 year 		Towards the Families Team in response to COVID19
Apr 2020 to Apr 2021
The Leathersellers' Foundation
Charity 		£20,000
1 year 		Grant to WellChild
Masonic Charitable Foundation
Large Grant 		£37,875 MCF Large Grant
The Leathersellers' Foundation
Charity 		£40,000
4 years 		Grant to WellChild
True Colours Trust £100,000
2 years 		Towards the costs of running its Family Tree Network
Sep 2018 to Sep 2020
Wolfson Foundation
Health and Disability 		£35,000 Grant to WellChild

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