THE KISUMU CHILDREN TRUST

Registered charity 1091477 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KISUMU CHILDREN, KISUMU CHILDREN TRUST, KISUMU TRUST (CHERRY BRIERLEY CHILDRENS TRUST)

The chief objects of the charity are to help relieve and alleviate child poverty and support families living in in the wider Kisumu community of Kenya, to advance the Christian religion and to promote and advance education and training.

Objects

THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE TRUST FUND AND ITS INCOME UPON TRUST TO APPLY THEM FOR THE FOLLOWING OBJECTS IN EAST AFRICA AND ELSEWHERE:-TO RELIEVE/ALLEVIATE POVERTY BY DEVELOPING SUITABLE FACILITIES FOR KISUMU CHILDREN;-TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION;TO ADVANCE/PROMOTE EDUCATION AND TRAINING.

Area of benefit: EAST AFRICA

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Religious Activities · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£146k

Latest spending

£225k

Registered

2002

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a General Fund of £20,000, a decrease from £50,000 in the prior year. The Trustees report no uncertainty regarding the charity's viability as a going concern. However, the filing discloses a significant risk related to a bankrupt financial advisor from whom the charity is attempting to recover invested surplus funds.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy

“We ended the year with a General Fund of £20,000 (£50,000 in 2024) outside our Restricted and Designated funds and Emergency Reserve.” — page 10

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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
Complaints policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Investment
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

Volunteers: 2
Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

Volunteers: 15

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

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

Register events

Received assets from another charity (03/04/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Received assets from another charity (09/04/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

ALAN HEWERDINE
Dr PETER WILLIAM BRIERLEY · trustee of 1 other charity
GRAEME THOMAS SHAW
JONATHAN GOODES
STEPHEN PAUL RODERICK

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

Operates in: Kenya · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£146k	£225k
31/12/2024	£225k	£249k
31/12/2023	£129k	£143k
31/12/2022	£124k	£152k
31/12/2021	£150k	£188k

Common questions

Is THE KISUMU CHILDREN TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a General Fund of £20,000, a decrease from £50,000 in the prior year. The Trustees report no uncertainty regarding the charity's viability as a going concern. However, the filing discloses a significant risk related to a bankrupt financial advisor from whom the charity is attempting to recover invested surplus funds. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds THE KISUMU CHILDREN TRUST?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE KISUMU CHILDREN TRUST as a grant recipient include W F SOUTHALL TRUST, THE CARMELA & RONNIE PIGNATELLI FOUNDATION, THE S M B TRUST, THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PHILIP, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, GILCHRIST EDUCATIONAL TRUST.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
W F SOUTHALL TRUST	FY2022	£3k	Social Action
THE CARMELA & RONNIE PIGNATELLI FOUNDATION	FY2025	£3k
THE CARMELA & RONNIE PIGNATELLI FOUNDATION	FY2024	£3k
THE S M B TRUST	FY2021	£2k	Social and medical welfare
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PHILIP, TUNBRIDGE WELLS	FY2024	£1k	Overseas relief and development agencies
GILCHRIST EDUCATIONAL TRUST	FY2022	£1k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PHILIP, TUNBRIDGE WELLS	FY2023	£400	Overseas relief and development agencies
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PHILIP, TUNBRIDGE WELLS	FY2022	amount not stated	Overseas relief and development agencies

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
The Ethos Foundation	1	£4.2m
THE MIKHEEV CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£305k
B&Q Foundation	1	£210k
The Caring Family Foundation	1	£160k
THE WESTMINSTER FOUNDATION	1	£152k
QUINTESSENTIALLY FOUNDATION	1	£115k
THE KPMG FOUNDATION	1	£92k
THE HABERDASHERS' FOUNDATION	1	£75k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COMMUNITY CARE RESOURCES INTERNATIONAL TRUST.

COMMUNITY CARE RESOURCES INTERNATIONAL TRUST income £230k
KARIBUNI CHILDREN income £324k
MURUGI COMMUNITY TRUST income £69k
PURSUE income £47k
KISIMA FOUNDATION income £35k
THE EDUCATIONAL FRONTIER TRUST income £253k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE KISUMU CHILDREN TRUST	£146k	—	—	below	—	no doubt
COMMUNITY CARE RESOURCES INTERNATIONAL TRUST FY2025	£230k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
KARIBUNI CHILDREN FY2025	£324k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
MURUGI COMMUNITY TRUST FY2026	£69k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
PURSUE FY2025	£47k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
KISIMA FOUNDATION FY2025	£35k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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