CHILDREN OF COLOMBIA

Registered charity 1095987 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Children of Colombia raises funds for three selected charities involved with the education, care and welfare of poor, disadvantaged and sick children in Colombia and with environmental education in the Colombian Amazon by donations and events organised by supporters. It also raises awareness of the work of the charities and Colombia through the website and social media.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF CHILDREN IN COLOMBIA, SOUTH AMERICA, WHO BY REASON OF THEIR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS ARE IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE.

Area of benefit: COLOMBIA, SOUTH AMERCIA

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Oxford, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is winding up operations, with trustees voting unanimously to close the charity in the 2025/26 year. The charity held £430 in unrestricted reserves at the period end, having distributed over £47,500 to supported foundations during the year. The trustees attribute the closure to changing circumstances, including key trustees leaving and the loss of personal contacts with the beneficiary organizations.

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

What the accounts disclose

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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding 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.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Kate Sealchair
• Alexandra Raikes
• Antonia Bonilla Mora
• Bryony Simmons
• FRANCISCA SANKSON
• GWYNETH SIMMONS

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

Operates in: Colombia · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FRIENDS OF COLOMBIA FOR SOCIAL AID.

• FRIENDS OF COLOMBIA FOR SOCIAL AID income £26k
• CHILDREN CHANGE COLOMBIA income £1.3m
• IN MINISTRY TO CHILDREN income £68k
• NEW HOPE FOR CHILDREN income £171k
• OASIS OF HOPE FOUNDATION-UK income £104k
• LET THE CHILDREN LIVE! income £880k

Side by side with its peers

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