SURVIVORS FUND (SURF)

Registered charity 1065705 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SURF

Survivors Fund (SURF) is the principal international organisation representing and supporting survivors of the genocide in Rwanda. SURF recognises that a holistic approach, is required to ensure vulnerable and marginalised survivors are empowered to rebuild their lives. Our model is to build the capacity of survivor-led partner organisations to develop and deliver such work independently.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · 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 FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £70,719 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £116,328 to £45,609. The trustees note that the charity began the year with less reserves and secured future income, though they remain confident in their ability to operate for the next twelve months. Unrestricted reserves stood at £23,969, which the trustees state is equivalent to their policy target of three months' operating expenditure.

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.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "within" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Good Gifts — “Survivors Fund (SURF) has been a beneficiary of the Good Gifts Catalogue since 2005” (source page)
• Foundation Rwanda — “With Foundation Rwanda we are transforming the lives of women survivors and their children” (source page)
• INSPIRE!africa — “With INSPIRE!africa we are supporting survivors to access legal aid and counselling” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (80% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Samantha Huntchair
• Asia BATRANE
• Beatha Uwaxaninka
• DAVID CHANEY
• JOSEPHINE UWAMARIYA
• Jean Bosco Ngabonzima
• Julie Appelbe
• PHILOMENE UWAMALIYA · trustee of 4 other charities
• Pamela Goddard
• Stephanie Kayirangwa
• William Goodhand

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

Operates in: Barnet · Rwanda

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).