CHANCE FOR CHILDHOOD

Registered charity 1013587 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · 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.

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

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.

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 4.8 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 5.2%) (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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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHANCE (UK) LIMITED.

• CHANCE (UK) LIMITED income £1.7m
• COMMUNITY HELP AND NEIGHBOURLY CARE FOR EVERYONE income £100k
• FAIR CHANCE FOUNDATION income £125k
• LIFE CHANCE TRUST income £123k
• THE CHILDHOOD TRUST income £3.3m
• SECOND CHANCE - A CHARITY FOR CHILDREN WHO NEED SPECIAL HELP income £416k

Side by side with its peers

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