Our web application uses cookies to provide you with a good browsing experience. By continuing to use our web application you agree to the use of cookies. Please read our Cookies Policy. Find your CTFAbout CTFShare Foundation WebsiteCTF Ambassadors Find your lost Child Trust Fund account If you're aged 16 or over and your birthday is not before 1st September 2002, this form could be of real value to you. If you were born in the United Kingdom you're almost certain to have a Child Trust Fund - money put into a personal account for you by the Government, which could now be worth £1,000 or more. You can take control of it from your 16th birthday, before getting access to the money at 18. If your parent or guardian/carer knows which account provider it's with, that's fine - no action is needed. But if they don't know where your account is, please complete and submit the form below, then print it, sign it, and send it to us at the freepost address shown on the printed form, so that we can find it for you. Note: if we need to check with HMRC, this search can only be made on receipt of the signed paper form. Need Help? Request help in finding your Child Trust Fund money Your Information: Title* -- Please select an option -- Mr Miss Mrs Ms If you were previously known by any other name, please provide details: Date of birth* (cannot be before 1 September 2002) We need an email address to acknowledge that we have received the information you have completed on this form. If you do not have your own email address, please provide an email address where you are happy for an acknowledgement to be sent. If you would prefer not to receive an acknowledgment, please use the following email address in this field – dpfoi.noack@hmrc.gov.uk Please note: if this field is left blank your form will not be accepted. Are you a young person who is ‘Looked After’ (in care)? (only tick if applicable) Where you live Enter Address Manually? Your previous address Click here to enter your previous address if applicable. Additional information IMPORTANT: Please enter in the space below the following information: Any HM Revenue & Customs office addresses and reference numbers. Any other details you feel will assist us in tracing and retrieving your Child Trust Fund information. Further details I declare that I am the person named above and that I am entitled to request personal information under the terms of the Data Protection Act 2018. I also hereby give my consent to HM Revenue & Customs to disclose information held on my Child Trust Fund to The Share Foundation Ltd. (reg. charity 1108068, address: The Share Foundation, 1st Floor, Ardenham Court, Oxford Road, Aylesbury HP19 8HT) who are acting on my behalf in making this request, including confirmation that account provider details have been supplied to me. I also authorise The Share Foundation to provide my contact information to my account provider and The Tracing Group as necessary to establish the location of my account, and I authorise my account provider to provide confirmation to The Share Foundation of the date when I have taken control of my account. Please tick this box to confirm that you agree with the above declaration and have read and understood the Terms & Conditions* Check out our short video or join one of our virtual events to find out more How this search works This search facility is provided by The Share Foundation, a registered charity and the accredited provider of Child Trust Fund and Junior ISA administration on behalf of the Department for Education for young people in care: see the link to this webpage in the relevant Statutory Guidance. We’re working with Government to help young people find their accounts and prepare for managing their money when they reach 18. Once you submit this online application, we track your search at every stage. As from May 2021, we do a check against the CTF Register (operated by The Tracing Group). Find out more about the CTF Register here . We still need you to send in your printed and signed form, but if a match is found, we will send you an email to introduce you to your CTF account provider (who actually holds the account). You can expect to get this email within a few days of submitting your online form. If the CTF Register check does not find a match, when we receive your signed form through the post we forward it to a special department at HM Revenue & Customs. When they find which account provider your account is with, they'll write to you directly, and let us know. So if you have any queries, just ‘phone us on 01296-310400 or email: findCTF@sharefound.org. Note: there is no charge for this service. What happens when I'm 18? You'll need to take some decisions on what to do with your Child Trust Fund as you approach 18. Assuming that you've made contact with your account provider and they know where you live, they'll write to you seeking your instructions in the months before your 18th birthday. The graphic below shows your choices. If they can't contact you, or you don't contact them after receiving their letter, follow the red box on the graphic: it will be kept safe for a considerable period of time, but eventually the money could be distributed to charity as a 'dormant asset'. Brush up your money skills! We also want to help you prepare for managing your money, as we’re aware that only 25% of students feel that they receive financial education at school. We have a really good free course for you called ‘Managing My Money’ which was developed by the Open University: please click on the banner below for more details: Share Radio provides the ‘Managing My Money’ programme. It broadcasts online and provides a podcast library of 7,500 programmes designed to share ideas about money. Listeners who access Share Radio via The Share Foundation get free access to all these audio programmes, thus avoiding its monthly subscription fee. Please click here for free registration. We also have a whole web page of free resources, full of financial awareness links: so click on this banner to have a browse, to see what might suit you: If you're 'looked-after', we have a six-step programme called Stepladder where you can get additional help to prepare for leaving care: check it out here for details. As noted above, this service is provided without any fee or charges to young people or their accounts. Its operation is funded directly by The Share Foundation, who are supported by NatWest, a major CTF account provider, and other donors. The Share Foundation is a registered UK Charity, no. 1108068, and a Company limited by Guarantee in the United Kingdom, no. 4500923. Its registered address is The Share Foundation, 1st Floor, Ardenham Court, Oxford Road, Aylesbury HP19 8HT © 2019 The Share Foundation Cookie Policy | Web Design Agency - Zebedee