ACTION FOR KIDS CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1068841 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ACTION FOR KIDS, AFK, AFKCT

The relief of chidren and young people who are suffering from sickness or physical or mental disability by assisting them to lead full and independent lives and by any other means whatsoever.The provision of support and assistance to the carers of chidren or young people suffering from physical or mental disability.

Objects

(1) THE RELIEF OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM SICKNESS OR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL DISABILITY BY ASSISTING THEM TO LEAD FULL AND INDEPENDENT LIVES AND BY ANY OTHER MEANS WHATSOEVER; (2) THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE TO THE CARERS OF CHILDREN OR YOUNG PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM PHYSICAL OR MENTAL DISABILITY; (3) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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
• 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)

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03487626

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.

• HYAMS, Dominic — director, appointed 22/10/2024on trustee list
• LOH, Alicia — director, appointed 22/10/2024on trustee list
• KARAMPELAS, Athanasios — director, appointed 04/10/2022on trustee list
• MKWANANZI, Thembani — director, appointed 04/10/2022on trustee list
• DEAKIN, Miriam Rose — director, appointed 04/10/2022on trustee list
• BODY, Stacey Carl — director, appointed 04/10/2022on trustee list
• MEREDITH, Timothy David — director, appointed 04/10/2022on trustee list
• DHILLON, Gurmeet Singh — director, appointed 18/02/2014on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 26.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/03/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• GURMEET SINGH DHILLONchair
• Alicia Loh · trustee of 1 other charity
• Athanasios Karampelas
• Dominic Hyams
• Miriam Rose Deakin
• Stacey Carl Body
• Thembani Mkwananzi
• Timothy David Meredith

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHILDREN TODAY CHARITABLE TRUST.

• CHILDREN TODAY CHARITABLE TRUST income £278k
• BELPECH CHARITABLE TRUST income £98k
• HILMARNAN CHARITABLE TRUST income £36k
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• HOD CHARITABLE TRUST income £77k

Side by side with its peers

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