ONE TO ONE CHILDREN'S FUND

Registered charity 1086159 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q132472111 · also known as THE ONE TO ONE CHILDREN'S FUND

The Charity's objectives are to carry out activities that relieve the suffering, hardship and neglect of children and young persons anywhere in the world. One to One Children's Fund is a small charity, and to make a virtue of necessity, we always start small. We change some precious lives immediately, but the bigger prize is that we create a model that we and others can follow.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE SUFFERING, HARDSHIP AND NEGLECT OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD THROUGH:(1) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND STARVATION; (11) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION; (111) THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND DISABILITY; (1V) THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL REHABILITATION; (V) ASSISTANCE TO OVERCOME THE TRAUMA OF CONFLICT, PERSECUTION AND NATURAL DISASTER.

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · 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 the charity reported a net surplus of £234,179 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total incoming resources increasing by 4% to £1,952,330. However, the trustees note that general unrestricted funds dropped by 40% to £165,592, which is below the stated policy target of three months' running costs, though sufficient to sustain operations for the coming 12 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Harris & Trotter LLP. Discloses 6 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
• Internal risk management 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

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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• David Altschuler — Executive Chairman (source)
• Catriona Fox — Co-Executive Director (source)
• Sharon Jackson — Co-Executive Director (source)
• Gqibelo Dandala — 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• 4 Daughters Charitable Trust — “We are very grateful to our Funding Partners: 4 Daughters Charitable Trust” (source page)
• Barnett & Sylvia Shine Charitable Trust — “Barnett & Sylvia Shine Charitable Trust” (source page)
• Chrisoph Burgard & Silke Petzold — “Chrisoph Burgard & Silke Petzold” (source page)
• Clifford & Sooozee Gundle — “Clifford & Sooozee Gundle” (source page)
• Dahan Family Foundation — “Dahan Family Foundation” (source page)
• David & Jenny Altschular — “David & Jenny Altschular” (source page)
• The Gould Charitable Trust — “The Gould Charitable Trust” (source page)
• Harris Family Charitable Trust — “Harris Family Charitable Trust” (source page)
• Irshaad Ibrahim, The London Sleep Centre — “Irshaad Ibrahim, The London Sleep Centre” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (68% 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: 7.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID ALTSCHULER · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Thompson
• Dr JENNIFER ALTSCHULER · trustee of 1 other charity
• EMMA BELL
• GARY LUBNER · trustee of 2 other charities
• Jonathan Penkin
• LAWRENCE GOULD
• Mary MacLeod OBE

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

Operates in: Barnet · Camden · Malawi · South Africa

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ONE TO ONE (ENFIELD).

• ONE TO ONE (ENFIELD) income £223k
• YOUR ONE WISH income £87k
• FRONTLINE CHILDREN income £13k
• ONE FOOTSTEP income £546k
• FIVE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES TRUST LTD income £2.3m
• ONE BY ONE income £620k

Side by side with its peers

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