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Brighton CIO founded by Sally Becker that evacuated 40 sick and injured children from Gaza and runs telehealth in Afghanistan

Save a Child

Type CIO
Founded 2016-01-25 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1165299
Headquarters Stanford Gate, South Road, Brighton BN1 6SB
Area served Occupied Palestinian Territories, Throughout England, Israel, Afghanistan
Key people Heather Maria James (chair)
Website www.saveachild.uk


Save a Child (Save a Child – Global Paediatric Network; also known as Road to Peace and Save A Child UK) is a charitable incorporated organisation registered on 25 January 2016; register areas are the Occupied Palestinian Territories, England, Israel and Afghanistan.[1] Its trustees are Heather Maria James (chair), Sarah Kennedy Griffin and Laura Webster; the register contact is Sally Becker, and its principal address is in Brighton BN1 (PDF p.9–10).[1][2] Its object is "the relief and treatment of sick and wounded children in any part of the world who are the victims of sudden impact events such as war or natural disaster" (PDF p.1). In the year to 31 January 2025 income was £182,462 (restricted £155,058) and expenditure £172,215, including evacuation costs of £68,851; funds were £51,717 (PDF p.18, 26).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE RELIEF AND TREATMENT OF SICK AND WOUNDED CHILDREN IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD WHO ARE THE VICTIMS OF SUDDEN IMPACT EVENTS SUCH AS WAR OR NATURAL DISASTER. ROAD TO PEACE WILL FUND THE SUPPLY OF EMERGENCY RELIEF THOUGH THE PROVISION OF MEDICAL AID AND EQUIPMENT TO HEALTH SERVICES IN THE AFFECTED REGIONS."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "For the public benefit, the relief and treatment of sick and wounded children in any part of the world who are the victims of sudden impact events such as war or natural disaster. Save A Child will provide medical support to health services and health care workers treating children in the affected regions, deliver humanitarian aid and help evacuate sick or vulnerable children to safety."[1]

Register classifications: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives.[1]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Occupied Palestinian Territories, Throughout England, Israel, Afghanistan.[1]

Trustees

Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]

Trustees of Save a Child (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Heather Maria James 2020-09-08 Yes —
Sarah Kennedy Griffin 2020-09-08 —
Laura Webster 2022-11-25 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2018-01-04 Robert John Carr Sally Becker; Angela Mary Mackrell; Hilary Mary Jackson [3]
2021-01-05 Sarah Kennedy Griffin (from 08 September 2020); Heather Maria James (from 08 September 2020); David Emin (from 18 June 2018); Sally Becker (chair) (from 04 October 2015) [4]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-01-31 £46,092 £42,150
2022-01-31 £55,266 £54,871
2023-01-31 £110,581 £110,704
2024-01-31 £141,541 £102,856
2025-01-31 £182,461 £175,234

Source: register annual-return history.[1]

Archived accounts

Accounts no longer on the live register were found in the UK Government Web Archive:

  • Accounts for the year ended 31/01/2018[5]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/01/2019[6]

Funding in Israel

  • "Save a Child began a humanitarian medical evacuation mission to support sick and critically injured children in Gaza ... arranged medical assessments, flights and transfer to hospitals equipped to provide advanced care for 40 sick and injured children" (PDF p.5).[2] Evacuation costs were £68,851 (2024: £6,681) and donations paid £29,300 (PDF p.26).[2] The destination countries are not named.
  • In Afghanistan the charity runs mobile triage and telehealth units in Ghor province, seeing about 1,200 patients a month, with more than 300 paediatric specialists volunteering by telemedicine (PDF p.2–4).[2] Its website menu includes "Medevac Gaza" and a Gaza emergency clinic.[7]

Israeli partners

No Israeli or Palestinian partner organisation is named.[2]

Activity beyond the Green Line and support for the IDF

Findings are graded by confidence. "Partner" findings concern the Israeli recipient organisation, not proven use of UK funds.

Evidence of activity beyond the 1949 armistice line
Finding Confidence
Medical evacuation of 40 children from Gaza – humanitarian work in the occupied Palestinian territories.[2] High

Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated; the charity's Gaza work is medical evacuation of children.[2]

Controversies and regulatory action

  • No Charity Commission inquiry, Official Warning or Gazette insolvency notice naming this charity was found, and its register entry shows no regulatory alert;[8] it is not among the charities named in the Commission's cheque-cashing class-inquiry announcements (May, September and December 2025) or in the September 2026 statement of results.[9][10][11][12] The charities in the Commission's settlements class inquiry (opened August 2026) have not been named, so it is not known whether this charity is among them.[13]
  • Exemption without a subsidiary. The related-party note relies on the exemption for wholly owned subsidiaries, although no subsidiary is described in the accounts (PDF p.25).[2]

Other registers and records

Scotland and Northern Ireland

No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (register export dated 14 October 2026, searched by name).[14] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[15]

The Gazette

Searches of The Gazette notice feeds (all notices, insolvency and company) for the charity's name found no insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice.[16]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[17]

Sanctions screening

The charity's name, its current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, trustees and officers named in the accounts read for this profile and (for charitable companies) its Companies House officers were screened against the UK Sanctions List and the OFSI Consolidated List. No match was found. Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor (UK sanctions ID RUS1127) does not appear among this charity's trustees or officers.[18]

Land and property

The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[19]

Parliament

Selected Hansard references
Date House Member Debate
2024-10-10 Commons John McDonnell Gaza and Humanitarian Aid[20]

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Save a Child", "Road to Peace", "Global Paediatric Network" returned 119 contributions in total; those not listed above were not established to concern this charity.[20]

Web archive

  • saveachild.uk: 7 yearly captures, first 2020-10-26, last 2026-01-21.[21]
  • roadtopeace.co.uk: 12 yearly captures, first 2012-05-16, last 2023-05-21.[22]

The UK Government Web Archive holds 2 archived Charity Commission register pages used in this profile (cited in the sections above). The 2021 archived full print showed the status "Charity reporting is up to date" and "Other regulators: No information available".[4]

See also

External links

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Charity Commission for England and Wales, Register of Charities public extract (tables charity, charity_trustee, charity_annual_return_history, charity_area_of_operation, charity_classification, charity_other_names), extract dated 14 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Charity Commission, Save a Child (1165299): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ Register entry 1165299, contact and trustees (capture of 20180104) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Register entry 1165299, full print (capture of 20210105) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ Save a Child accounts, year ended 2018-01-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  6. ↑ Save a Child accounts, year ended 2019-01-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  7. ↑ Save a Child, saveachild.uk home page Wayback Machine, capture of 21 January 2026 (menu items include "Medevac Gaza" and "Gaza Emergency Clini[c]").
  8. ↑ Charity Commission, Register of Charities, charity overview page (register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/ followed by the organisation number) for each of the 25 batch-13 charities, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. The 22 registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; Hatzolas Chasanim Ltd, Trumfold Limited and The Naaman Trust showed "Removed charity".
  9. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  10. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  11. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator concludes investigation into 4 charities as class inquiry continues GOV.UK, 9 September 2026, with Statement of the results of a class inquiry (same date).
  13. ↑ Charity Commission, Charity regulator opens inquiry into charities working in illegal Israeli settlements GOV.UK, 5 August 2026 (a fact-finding statutory class inquiry initially involving 8 charities which "are not being publicly named at this time").
  14. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-13 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
  15. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-13 charity names returned zero results, except "J O Charitable", which returned only unrelated Northern Irish charities).
  16. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Save a Child' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
  17. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1165299 360Giving, queried 15 October 2026.
  18. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-13 screening covered 285 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the six charitable companies (including the removed Hatzolas Chasanim Ltd and Trumfold Limited), related companies named in the accounts (Cromwell Corporate Protector Limited, Salmino Limited, Bullion Properties Limited, Crewpride Limited, Wilkincroft Ltd and others), and trustees, examiners, donors and grant recipients named in the accounts and fetched partner pages read for this batch; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname match for any person was found; the only token matches were generic words in organisation names ("Trust", "Limited", "Ltd", "Foundation") and surname-only coincidences (Weiss, Friedman, Kish, Silver, James, Seal, Potash); lists downloaded October 2026.
  19. ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK – the service returned HTTP 403 (bot protection) to automated access in October 2026; no titles were looked up or purchased. Candidate title numbers below come from the free CCOD / OCOD datasets (October 2026 release), not from paid title registers.
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Save a Child" Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
  21. ↑ Internet Archive CDX index for saveachild.uk Wayback Machine, queried 15 October 2026.
  22. ↑ Internet Archive CDX index for roadtopeace.co.uk Wayback Machine, queried 15 October 2026.
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