WORLD VILLAGES FOR CHILDREN

Registered charity 1058973 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To relieve poverty suffered by children thoughout the world by providing them with food, clothing, shelter and education, including vocational training, so that they can break free from a life of poverty and despair. Educate the public concerning children and adults living in poverty and promote the advancement of religion in the charitable works undertaken.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £2,231,776 against expenditure of £2,087,720, resulting in a net surplus of £144,056. The trustees report that free reserves at year-end were £10,154, which is significantly below the stated policy target of six months' core expenditure (approximately £350,000), although post-year-end legacy realizations have increased free reserves. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and that the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Kreston Reeves, LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03267479

What the charity says about itself (2024)

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — World Villages for Children (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sister Elena Belarmino — Chair (source)
• Sister Maria Cho — Chair (source)
• John Graham — Trustee (source)
• Nicola Lawson — Trustee (source)
• Sister Margarita Campos Abeja — Trustee (source)
• Clare Bamberger — Trustee (source)
• Father Fretch Ballesteros — Trustee (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The Big Give — “In 2025, you helped to raise funds through the Big Give Christmas Challenge to purchase new science textbooks for the girls of Brasilia Girl…” (source page)

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.

• BALLESTEROS, Fretch, Father — director, appointed 07/08/2023not on trustee list
• ABEJA, Margarita Campos, Sister — director, appointed 06/07/2023on trustee list
• BAMBERGER, Clare Jessica — director, appointed 11/07/2019on trustee list
• GRAHAM, John Martin — director, appointed 18/04/2019on trustee list
• BELARMINO, Elena, Sister — director, appointed 08/07/2016on trustee list
• CHO, Duk Lim — director, appointed 08/07/2016on trustee list
• LAWSON, Nicola Jane — director, appointed 08/07/2016on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~0.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 16.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/11/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Clare Jessica Bamberger
• Duk Lim Cho
• Elena Grengia Belarmino
• Father Fretch Ballesteros SDV
• JOHN MARTIN GRAHAM · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nicola Lawson
• Sister Margarita Campos Abeja

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

Operates in: Brazil · Guatemala · Honduras · Mexico · Philippines · Tanzania

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ZACCHAEUS 2000 TRUST.

• THE ZACCHAEUS 2000 TRUST income £956k
• NOOR TRUST income £490k
• ONE CHILD FOUNDATION (SRI LANKA) LTD income £131k
• FIRST DAYS CHILDREN'S CHARITY income £452k
• UK CARE FOR CHILDREN income £1.4m
• STREET CHILD income £22.3m

Side by side with its peers

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