THE WORLD CHILDREN'S FUND

Registered charity 1079124 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WORLD CHILDREN'S RESCUE FUND

PROVISION OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES IN LESS STABLE COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD.PROVISION OF EMERGENCY AID RELIEF IN DISASTER AREAS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.

Causes: 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 total income increased to £1,090,888, driven by a rise in gifts in kind, while resources expended rose to £1,169,747. This resulted in a net decrease in funds of £78,859, reducing total unrestricted reserves to £810,645. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Joseph Lam — Founder (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.

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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~8.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 9.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOSEPH LAMchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Natalia Yakusheva
• RUTH KENDRICK
• YEVGEN YAKUSHEV · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Kenya · Liberia · Mozambique · South Africa · South Sudan · Sudan · Thailand · Throughout England And Wales · Uganda · Ukraine

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SAVE THE CHILDREN FUND.

• THE SAVE THE CHILDREN FUND income £262.5m
• THEIRWORLD income £7.4m
• WORLD MEDICAL FUND income £154k
• FAITH IN ACTION income £148k
• UK CARE FOR CHILDREN income £1.4m
• AID INTERNATIONAL UK income £260k

Side by side with its peers

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