CHANCE FOR CHILDHOOD

Registered charity 1013587 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q132472389 · also known as JUBILEE ACTION

Chance for Childhood is an award-winning charity working in Africa to support the most vulnerable children, often invisible from society, such as street children, disabled children, children affected by conflict and children in conflict with the law. These children are often hidden members of their communities, unable to go to school, excluded from society and living in abject poverty.

Objects

TO PREVENT AND/OR RELIEVE POVERTY AND OTHER CHARITABLE NEEDS, AND IMPROVE WELLBEING, AMONGDISADVANTAGED AND/OR VULNERABLE CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND/OR THEIR FAMILIES BY SUCH CHARITABLE MEANS ASTHE TRUSTEES THINK FIT;TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR DISADVANTAGED AND/OR VULNERABLE CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND/OR THEIR FAMILIES;TO ADVANCE THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF CHILDREN AND/OR YOUNG PEOPLE BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS:ADVANCING THE INCLUSION, EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN AND/OR YOUNG PEOPLE, INCLUDING THOSEWITH DISABILITIES;SEEKING REDRESS FOR, AND/OR THE RELIEF OF NEED OF, CHILD AND OTHER YOUNG VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE,AND/OR SUPPORTING CHILDREN AND/OR YOUNG PEOPLE WHO COME INTO CONFLICT WITH THE LAW;RAISING AWARENESS OF, AND/OR EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ABOUT, THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF CHILDREN AND/OR YOUNGPEOPLE.NOTHING IN THE ARTICLES SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CHARITY FOR PURPOSES WHICH ARENOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005AND/OR SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008.IN THE DEFINITIONS SECTION: "HUMAN RIGHTS" MEANS ANY OR ALL OF THE RIGHTS SET OUT IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATIONOF HUMAN RIGHTS, THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD, AND THE UNITED NATIONSCONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED.

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Islington, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income reached a record £1,804,371, a 23% increase from the previous year, driven by new consortium partnerships and a merger. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves increased to £139,123, exceeding the revised policy minimum of £122,500, while the charity maintains a going concern status with adequate resources for the next 12 to 18 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Chance for Childhood (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (97% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 16.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/01/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/06/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carole Ramella
• Derrick Betts
• Elizabeth Kigozi Ntege
• Helen Isobel McMillan
• Janine McKelvey
• Max Whicher
• Nicoletta Gopsill-Piccolrovazzi
• Richard Charles Edwards

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

Operates in: Congo (Democratic Republic) · Ghana · Kenya · Rwanda · Uganda

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SAFE CHILD AFRICA.

• SAFE CHILD AFRICA income £74k
• Able Child Africa income £939k
• CHILD OF HOPE income £288k
• CHILD POVERTY ACTION GROUP income £6.3m
• ACTION FOR CHILDREN income £163.4m
• NIA CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION income £34k

Side by side with its peers

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