WAR CHILD
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-13 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-07-30
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£6M
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£4M
-33.4% vs 2023
Employees
74
Average over period
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2024-12-31
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Unclassified median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £18,896,000 | £13,091,000 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | — | £391,000 | |
| Cash | — | £5,719,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | £3,915,000 | |
| Net assets | £5,882,000 | £3,915,000 | |
| Equity | — | £3,915,000 | |
| Average employees | — | 74 | |
| Wages | £3,884,000 | £2,713,000 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | — | 3.0% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | — | 56.0% | |
| Current ratio | — | 1.78x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Crowe U.K. LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Trustees have reviewed War Child UK's reserves and Continuity Business Reserves position, forecasts, projections, and risk-assessed income and expenditure. They have a reasonable expectation that the group has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, thus adopting the 'going concern' basis in preparing accounts.”
Group structure
- WAR CHILD · parent
- War Child Trading Limited 100%
Significant events
- “War Child UK was selected as Charity partner for the Guardian and Observer newspaper Christmas appeal which generated £0.5m in 2024.”
- “Music Ambassador AURORA dedicated her performance at Glastonbury to children by holding a War Child sign that read, 'No child should be part of war. Ever.'”
- “BRITs Week 2024 raised £420k, providing crucial support for War Child's work.”
- “Secret 7" gained coverage from NME, Creative Boom, It's Nice That and The Financial Times. The online auction raised £210,000 to support our work.”
- “Jingle Jam 2024 raised £2.6 million, with War Child receiving £301,940.”
- “Sound & Vision...raised £36,000 for War Child and gained widespread media coverage.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
10 active · 52 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PATTINSON, Helen | Secretary | 2024-01-01 | — | — |
| PERRY, Kathryn | Secretary | 2024-09-04 | — | — |
| BLACKMAN, Cleo | Director | 2018-12-05 | Sep 1980 | British |
| BRIGGS, James Ian | Director | 2018-12-05 | Feb 1972 | British |
| BROWNE, Caroline Frances | Director | 2022-04-01 | Mar 1979 | British |
| EXON, Mel | Director | 2025-10-14 | Aug 1971 | British |
| KING, Siobhan | Director | 2018-12-05 | Aug 1972 | Irish |
| MEHROTRA, Shruti | Director | 2019-03-13 | Jan 1978 | American |
| PANAYI, Maria Kathryn | Director | 2022-08-01 | Dec 1985 | British |
| RAJAH, Tara Nayagi Heera | Director | 2022-08-01 | Nov 1984 | British |
Show 52 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| AVIS, Gillian Susan | Secretary | 2001-02-01 | 2003-08-01 |
| DEAL, Tracey | Secretary | 2017-08-08 | 2022-07-07 |
| KIRKPATRICK, Philip Duncan John | Secretary | 1998-07-30 | 2001-01-31 |
| MACAUSLAN, John | Secretary | 2010-07-28 | 2015-06-04 |
| WELSH, Sarah Gay | Secretary | 2015-06-04 | 2017-04-26 |
| WILLIAMS, Rob | Secretary | 2017-04-26 | 2017-08-08 |
| WILLIAMS, Robert Vincent | Secretary | 2022-07-07 | 2024-01-01 |
| WOODGATE, Herbert George | Secretary | 2003-08-01 | 2009-01-01 |
| AVIS, Gillian Susan | Director | 2000-10-17 | 2011-07-19 |
| BASINI, Justin Simon Mark | Director | 2005-07-12 | 2006-06-30 |
| BOYCOTT, Rosel Marie | Director | 2000-04-05 | 2003-08-08 |
| BUCKLEY, Katherine Anne | Director | 1999-08-13 | 2001-01-06 |
| BURGESS, David Patrick Henry | Director | 2001-10-31 | 2003-02-11 |
| BUTLER, Richard David James | Director | 2009-05-28 | 2012-07-19 |
| CHAPMAN, Alexander Lawrence George | Director | 2005-10-10 | 2007-12-31 |
| CRUMP, Stephen John | Director | 2004-11-01 | 2009-05-28 |
| DAVIS, Tom | Director | 2009-05-28 | 2015-07-14 |
| DESHMUKH, Sacha Shisheer | Director | 2014-07-29 | 2020-06-25 |
| DUNN, Sarah Julie | Director | 2018-12-05 | 2022-09-01 |
| ENO, Anthea Frances | Director | 1999-05-11 | 2000-02-13 |
| FALLON, John Joseph | Director | 2020-02-28 | 2025-10-14 |
| FENTON, Neil Robert | Director | 2009-10-01 | 2016-07-14 |
| FENTON, Neil Robert | Director | 2008-11-10 | 2016-05-18 |
| FRANCIS, Heather | Director | 2016-04-27 | 2022-03-24 |
| GAYDON, John Christian | Director | 1999-06-17 | 2000-02-23 |
| GIBSON, Guy | Director | 2016-02-03 | 2019-12-31 |
| HUHNE, Elizabeth Ann | Director | 1998-07-30 | 1998-12-16 |
| JIWAJI, Nabila | Director | 2015-04-29 | 2021-03-11 |
| JOHNSON GRAHAM, Laura | Director | 1999-08-13 | 2000-04-06 |
| LEE, Lydia | Director | 2010-04-24 | 2016-04-27 |
| LONGBOTTOM, Raymond Allan | Director | 2009-05-28 | 2017-12-13 |
| MACDONALD, Andrew Thomas | Director | 1998-07-30 | 1999-08-03 |
| MACLEOD, Roderick | Director | 2017-12-13 | 2025-05-29 |
| MAGUIRE, Sarah | Director | 2012-07-19 | 2015-10-21 |
| MCCANN, Joseph Martin, Mr. | Director | 2008-10-16 | 2013-08-01 |
| MORRIS, Edward | Director | 1998-11-25 | 1999-05-05 |
| O'NEILL, Nessa | Director | 2000-10-17 | 2001-09-13 |
| QURESHI, Khawar Mehmood | Director | 1998-07-30 | 1998-12-14 |
| RICHARDS, Penelope | Director | 2012-07-19 | 2018-06-07 |
| RITCHIE, Berry Cw | Director | 1998-07-30 | 1998-12-14 |
| ROLFE, Nicholas | Director | 2012-10-25 | 2015-02-11 |
| SCOURFIELD, Tom | Director | 2016-12-07 | 2022-12-31 |
| SHARP, Christopher Anthony | Director | 2002-04-01 | 2009-10-15 |
| SMITH, Peter Douglas Wilkie | Director | 2000-09-01 | 2004-01-14 |
| SPENCER, Timothy Richard | Director | 1999-03-17 | 1999-08-06 |
| TAS, Jacob | Director | 2012-07-19 | 2018-06-07 |
| TURNER, Keith Michael | Director | 1998-12-22 | 1999-05-06 |
| WESTON, Julie Ann | Director | 2013-01-10 | 2018-12-05 |
| WILSON, Ann | Director | 2001-08-01 | 2007-12-31 |
| WILSON, Nigel | Director | 2012-09-01 | 2015-04-29 |
| WILSON, Timothy Richard | Director | 2009-09-16 | 2012-11-03 |
| WOODGATE, Herbert George | Director | 2002-12-10 | 2009-01-01 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 183 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-28 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-10-27 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-08-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-07-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-02 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-06-02 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-05-29 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-11-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-09-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-12 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2023-07-31 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-07-31 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-07-31 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-12-15 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-09-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-09-12 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2022-09-12 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2022-09-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-09-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-08-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 2
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
-30.7%
£18,896,000 £13,091,000
-
Cash
—
Not reported
-
Net assets
-33.4%
£5,882,000 £3,915,000
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Wages
-30.1%
£3,884,000 £2,713,000
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers