EDUCATION FOR THE CHILDREN FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1099280 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Our mission is to break the cycle of poverty through education, empowerment and enterprise at the heart of the community.EFTC works in partnership with disadvantaged families, children and young adults in Guatemala, Central America to ensure they develop the tools they need to make positive choices and build a brighter future for themselves.

Objects

(A) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN IN CENTRAL AMERICA BY THE PROVISION OF SCHOOLS, SCHOOLS EQUIPMENT AND TEACHING PERSONNEL AND(B)TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND SICKNESS OF CHILDREN WHO ARE EDUCATED BY THE FOUNDATION, TOGETHER WITH THEIR FAMILIES, BY THE PROVISION OF SHELTER, AMENITIES, FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT, IN ANY SUCH CHARITABLE WAY AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: CENTRAL AMERICA

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Rushcliffe, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported total income of £747,087 and unrestricted reserves of £155,512, which the trustees state meets their policy target of approximately three months of unrestricted expenditure. While the accounts note that cash flow struggled in some months due to a delayed donor payment, the trustees consider there to be no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

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.

• 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Education For The Children Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (95% 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: 26.0% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/09/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Michelle Aitkenchair
• DOUGAL POWRIE
• Matthew Denman
• Nicholas Robert Watling

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

Operates in: Guatemala · 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 AFRICAN CHILDRENS EDUCATIONAL TRUST.

• AFRICAN CHILDRENS EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £111k
• EMPOWER - THE EMERGING MARKETS FOUNDATION LIMITED income £3.7m
• EDUCATION FOR LIFE income £256k
• CHILDREN'S EDUCATION FOUNDATION income £185k
• THE EDUCATIONAL FRONTIER TRUST income £253k
• OPPORTUNITY THROUGH EDUCATION income £56k

Side by side with its peers

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