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The Save the Children Fund

Also known as: Save the Children UK

Country
Scotland
Charity number
SC039570
Status
Active
Reporting
Up to date Last filed July 24, 2026. Filing history
Registered
May 12, 2008
Legal form
Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)

Address

Address
1 St John's Lane
London
EC1M 4AR

Contact

Activities

'It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations','It carries out activities or services itself'

'the prevention or relief of poverty','the advancement of education','the advancement of health','the saving of lives','the advancement of citizenship or community development','the advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation','the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage'

Beneficiaries: 'Children or young people'

Objectives: The objects for which the Charity is established are to relieve the distress and hardship, and to promote the welfare of children in any country or countries, place or places, without differentiation on the ground of race, colour, nationality, creed or sex and to educate the public concerning the nature, causes and effects of distress, hardship and want of welfare as aforesaid, and to conduct and procure research concerning the same and to make available the useful results thereof to the public.

Geography

Main operating location
Outwith Scotland
Geographical spread
UK and overseas

Finances

Period end Filed Income Expenditure Employees
Dec. 31, 2025 July 24, 2026On time £262,508,000 £275,822,000 784
Dec. 31, 2024 Aug. 26, 2025On time £304,834,000 £308,810,973 913
Dec. 31, 2023 Aug. 21, 2024On time £296,015,000 £295,425,000 907
Dec. 31, 2022 July 28, 2023On time £294,356,000 £286,371,000 862
Dec. 31, 2021 Sept. 8, 2022On time £240,409,000 £235,928,000 904
Dec. 31, 2020 Sept. 9, 2021 £288,730,000 £283,161,000 913

Due dates are 9 months after the year end, OSCR's deadline, so they don't allow for any extension OSCR has granted.