SURVIVORS FUND (SURF)

Registered charity 1065705 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7647336 · Wikipedia · 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.

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION , RELIEVE POVERTY AND RELIEVE ANY PHYSICAL, MENTAL OR EMOTIONAL ILLNESS, DISORDER OR DISABILITY AMONG THE SURVIVORS OF THE RWANDAN GENOCIDE.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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

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

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

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.

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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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.

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 7.2 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 (3.2%) (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).

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 SURVIVORS TRUST.

• THE SURVIVORS TRUST income £838k
• SAVING THE SURVIVORS LTD income £78k
• NATIONAL SURVIVOR USER NETWORK income £827k
• SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL CHARITABLE TRUST income £2.1m
• ALL SURVIVORS PROJECT income £435k
• THE SURVIVORS' NETWORK LIMITED income £1.8m

Side by side with its peers

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