CHILDREN AND FAMILIES ACROSS BORDERS (CFAB)

Registered charity 1085541 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHILDREN AND FAMILIES ACROSS BORDERS, INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SERVICE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, ISS UK

Children and Families Across Borders (CFAB - formerly International Social Service UK) is the UK arm of the international ISS network. CFAB works to ensure the identification, care and protection of all children separated across borders - including children in care, unaccompanied children and the victims of trafficking - where possible reuniting them with their families in the UK and overseas.

Objects

FOR THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO ARE IN NEED AS A RESULT OF VOLUNTARY OR FORCED MIGRATION OR OTHER SOCIAL PROBLEMS OF AN INTERNATIONAL CHARACTER BY ASSISTING SUCH PERSONS WHO HAVE TO OVERCOME PERSONAL OR FAMILY DIFFICULTIES, THE SOLUTION OF WHICH REQUIRES CO-ORDINATED ACTIONS IN SEVERAL COUNTRIES, OR IN SOME CASES, ACTION ONLY IN THE COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE OF THE PERSONS CONCERNED AND BY STUDYING FROM AN INTERNATIONAL STANDPOINT THE CONDITIONS AND CONSEQUENCES OF MIGRATION IN RELATION TO INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY LIFE AND, AS A RESULT OF SUCH STUDIES, BY MAKING RECOMMENDATIONS OR UNDERTAKING ANY OTHER APPROPRIATE ACTION

Area of benefit: UK 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 · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £60,595 for the year ended 31 March 2025, compared to a deficit of £88,515 in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, free reserves are equivalent to 4.9 months of operating costs, which is below the stated policy target of three to six months' planned expenditure. The trustees confirm the charity remains a going concern with adequate resources to continue operations 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 SCB (Accountants) Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission; Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Children and Families Across Borders (CFAB) (matched by registered charity number).

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (71% 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: 10.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Angie Garvich
• Anita Kara
• Christopher Hames QC
• Cornelia Andrecut
• Dalvinder Nagra
• Douglas Lewis CBE
• Hilka Hollmann
• Karina Kim Peen
• Marija Martinovic
• Mark William Arthur Tate
• Michael Phair
• Richard Morris MBE
• Robert Henderson
• Victoria Mellor

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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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FAMILIES AND BABIES (FAB).

• FAMILIES AND BABIES (FAB) income £497k
• FAMILIES FORWARD income £128k
• AFASIC income £241k
• CHILDREN AND FAMILIES STAFFORDSHIRE income £264k
• THE CHILDREN'S FAMILY TRUST income £9.7m
• BACUP FAMILY CENTRE income £170k

Side by side with its peers

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