ROMANIAN CHALLENGE APPEAL

Registered charity 1011397 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RCA (UK), ROMANIAN CHALLENGE APPEAL (UK)

Work towards the relief of poverty and mental or physical sickness amongst people in Romania.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND MENTAL OR PHYSICAL SICKNESS OR DISABILITY AMONGST THE PEOPLE OF ROMANIA AND IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING AMONGST THE CHILDREN OF ROMANIA BY ALL CHARITABLE MEANS INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF MEDICAL ASSISTANCE AND EDUCATION. THE GENERAL PURPOSES OF SUCH CHARITABLE BODIES OR FOR SUCH PURPOSES AS SHALL BE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE.

Area of benefit: ROMANIA AND ELSEWHERE

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

Causes: Disability · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Solihull, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £86,687, which the Trustees consider to be within their stated policy target of maintaining between six and twelve months' expenditure. The charity ceased UK fundraising in 2015 and currently operates at the lowest possible cost while supporting its Romanian partner foundation.

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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• NIGEL JOHN SQUIBBchair
• Anna Hamlet
• Brian William Woolford
• Kyra Ioana O'Connor
• Sally Elizabeth Solomon

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

Operates in: Romania · Solihull

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• ROMANIAN RESCUE APPEAL income £384k
• AID CARE TRAINING AND SUPPLIES TRUST income £62k
• OPERATION ROMANIA TRUST income £31k
• ROMANIAN MINISTRIES income £271k
• SUNNINGDALE PARK ROMANIA APPEAL income £36k
• FRIENDS OF CHILDREN IN ROMANIA income £143k

Side by side with its peers

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