THEIRWORLD

Registered charity 1092312 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PIGGYBANKKIDS

1) THE RELIEF OF POOR OR INFIRM CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE3) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE

Objects

1) THE RELIEF OF POOR OR INFIRM CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE3) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £10,547,469 from £7,414,859 in the prior year, resulting in a net surplus of £1,854,451. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted general funds stand at £4,668,379, which is above the stated policy target of £1,900,000 intended to cover nine months of core cash flow. The charity remains a going concern with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 12 (FY2024) → 14 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: THEIRWORLD PROJECTS LIMITED Companies House 04326134
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04422413

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sarah Brown — Chair (source)
• Justin van Fleet — President (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).

• Stellantis — “The Youth Skills and Employment Accelerator is an annual programme, led by the Global Business Coalition for Education supported by Stellant…” (source page)
• Dell — “The Youth Skills and Employment Accelerator is an annual programme, led by the Global Business Coalition for Education supported by Stellant…” (source page)

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.

• JURD, Charles — director, appointed 06/11/2025on trustee list
• SOWA, Theodosia Adjorkor — director, appointed 30/05/2021not on trustee list
• MODI, Neena, Professor — director, appointed 11/07/2019on trustee list
• LAING, Ian Alexander — director, appointed 10/12/2015on trustee list
• BROWN, Sarah Jane — director, appointed 04/12/2012on trustee list
• DOUGHTY, Lucy — director, appointed 04/12/2012on trustee list
• BOUTCHER, David John — director, appointed 23/04/2002on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (96% 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: 1.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• SARAH JANE BROWNchair
• Charles Jurd
• DAVID JOHN BOUTCHER
• Ian Laing
• LUCY DOUGHTY · trustee of 2 other charities
• Professor Neena Modi · trustee of 2 other charities
• Theodosia Sowa CBE

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

Operates in: Cambodia · Greece · India · Kenya · Lebanon · Scotland · Tanzania · Throughout England And Wales · Turkey · Uganda · Ukraine · United States

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 THE WORLD CHILDREN'S FUND.

• THE WORLD CHILDREN'S FUND income £927k
• THE I S A CHARITY income £52k
• REACHING THE UNREACHED income £773k
• CHARITIES ADMINISTERED BY THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF FOUNDERS income £99k
• TAKING GROUND income £118k
• TOBY AND REGINA WYLES CHARITABLE TRUST income £449k

Side by side with its peers

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