FRIENDS OF CHILDREN IN ROMANIA

Registered charity 1006753 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FRIENDS OF ORPHANAGES IN ROMANIA

The charity relieves poverty and sickness, educates and preserves health for Romanian children and adults. The charity cares for orphaned or discarded children. They live as families in three houses with Romanian "mothers" giving them love and security. They are brought up as Romanian families and educated to the very best of their abilities. They remain at least until adulthood. They are cherishe

Objects

FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS (INCLUDING THE RELIEF OF THE PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY HANDICAPPED) AND FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF HEALTH AMONG THE CHILDREN AND ADULTS OF ROMANIA.

Area of benefit: ROMANIA

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Chichester, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net expenditure of £36,150, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted funds from £167,652 to £141,418. The trustees report that funds were withdrawn from reserves to support charitable objectives and anticipate further draws on reserves in the short term due to operational costs and an expected increase in the Romanian minimum wage. Despite these pressures, the trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02652481

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• GORDON, Saleigh Louise — director, appointed 26/02/2024on trustee list
• WRIGHT, Paula Michelle — director, appointed 15/01/2021on trustee list
• LANE, Martin, Canon — director, appointed 16/10/2019not on trustee list
• GIBSON, Sarah Louise — director, appointed 28/04/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• Paula Michelle Wright
• Saleigh Gordon
• Sarah Gibson

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Romania

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ROMANIAN CHALLENGE APPEAL.

• ROMANIAN CHALLENGE APPEAL income £35k
• CHILDREN FOR CHRIST income £17k
• OPEN HANDS income £137k
• FRIENDS OF ANIMALS IN NEED income £800k
• PCF ROMANIA PROJECTS CHARITABLE TRUST income £32k
• REACHING ROMANIA income £31k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.