CHILDREN CHANGE COLOMBIA

Registered charity 1075037 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHILDREN OF THE ANDES

Children Change Colombia was established in 1991. We are the largest UK charity working exclusively in Colombia. We work on neglected issues facing children and young people in Colombia that pose a serious threat to children's rights and wellbeing. In particular: Recruitment into armed groups and reintegration into society; Sexual and gender based violence; and Exclusion from education.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE RELIEF AND PREVENTION OF POVERTY, EXPLOITATION AND OTHER THREATS TO THE RIGHTS AND WELFARE OF CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES IN COLOMBIA AND OF THE COLOMBIAN DIASPORA IN THE UK, AND WHERE APPROPRIATE SUCH RELIEF MAY BE GRANTED THROUGH THE AGENCY OF OTHER CHARITIES.

Area of benefit: COLUMBIA, SOUTH AMERICA

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 · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Arts/culture/heritage/science · 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 the charity maintained a stable financial position with free reserves of £117,184, which the trustees confirmed were within their risk-based reserves policy framework. The charity reported total income of £1,328,054 and total expenditure of £1,314,764, resulting in a net surplus for the year. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for at least twelve months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Affinia (Crawley). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (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
• 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03731943

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Children Change Colombia (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Carolina Giraldo — Chair of the Board (source)
• Ángela Carreño — Executive Director (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.

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.

• VERGARA, Cristina — director, appointed 23/07/2025on trustee list
• JENKINS, Owen Robert — director, appointed 23/07/2025on trustee list
• GIRALDO SUAREZ, Carolina — director, appointed 26/07/2023not on trustee list
• ALVIAR-BAQUERO, Felipe — director, appointed 25/01/2023not on trustee list
• HOLLENBACH, Corin Michele — director, appointed 26/10/2022on trustee list
• CAVIEDES PINZON, Fernando — director, appointed 27/04/2022not on trustee list
• CONLIN-OAKLEY, Alexandra Clare — director, appointed 21/09/2020on trustee list
• MCCOLL, Richard Stuart — director, appointed 21/09/2020on trustee list
• THOMSON, Marilyn Anne — director, appointed 23/04/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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: 2.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/09/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carolina Giraldo Suarezchair
• Alexandra Clare Conlin-Oakley
• Corin Hollenbach
• Cristina Vergara
• FELIPE ALVIAR BAQUERO
• Fernando Caviedes Pinzon
• MARILYN THOMSON
• Owen Robert Jenkins
• Richard Drean
• Richard Stuart McColl

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

Operates in: Colombia

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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 CHILDREN OF COLOMBIA.

• CHILDREN OF COLOMBIA income £35k
• IN MINISTRY TO CHILDREN income £68k
• THE CAMBODIAN CHILDRENS CHARITY income £119k
• FRIENDS OF COLOMBIA FOR SOCIAL AID income £26k
• CHANCE FOR CHILDHOOD income £1.8m
• CONGO CHILDREN TRUST income £248k

Side by side with its peers

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