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.

Objects

(1) TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS, HARDSHIP AND SUFFERING AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. (2) TO RELIEVE SUFFERING AND DISTRESS CAUSED BY NATURAL OR MAN-MADE DISASTERS. (3) SUCH EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE DIRECTORS SHALL DECIDE.

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts were subject to an independent examination rather than a full audit, with the examiner reporting no matters requiring attention. The filing notes that no trustees received salary or compensation from the charity during the year. A grant of £71,349 was received from a connected overseas entity, World Children's Fund (USA).

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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 03778493

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.

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.

• YAKUSHEV, Natalia — director, appointed 15/05/2017not on trustee list
• YAKUSHEV, Yevgen — director, appointed 01/01/2016on trustee list
• KENDRICK, Ruth — director, appointed 01/02/2001on trustee list
• LAM, Joseph — director, appointed 01/01/2001on trustee list
• BREAMS SECRETARIES LIMITED — corporate secretary, appointed 05/06/2026

Official officers record.

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 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~9.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 11.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (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 WORLD WIDE WELFARE (WWW).

• WORLD WIDE WELFARE (WWW) income £111k
• THEIRWORLD income £10.5m
• WORLD MEDICAL FUND income £154k
• FRONTLINE CHILDREN income £13k
• WORLD VILLAGES FOR CHILDREN income £2.2m
• CHILDREN IN NEED FUND income £34k

Side by side with its peers

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