KENYA CHILDREN CENTRES

Registered charity 1103868 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Kenya Children Centres cares for 2,000 poor orphaned and vulnerable children at our 8 feeding centres in slum villages, in families in the community and at our homes for abandoned babies and children. Our outreach projects support destitute families with education, counselling, micro-business grants, clothing and personal hygiene items.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF, AND RELIEVE POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AMONG CHILDREN IN KENYA BY THE PROVISION OF HOUSING, SHELTER, REFUGE, COUNSELLING AND THE PROMOTION OF HEALTHCARE.

Area of benefit: FOR CHILDREN IN KENYA.

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

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

Latest income
£142k
Latest spending
£116k
Registered
2004
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds total £166,912, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of nine to twelve months' expenditure. The charity reports a net movement in funds of £25,610 for the year, with no employees and trustee-administered overheads ensuring donor income is directed to projects.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: nine and twelve month’s expenditure (reserves figure: £167k)
“It is the policy of the charity that unrestricted funds should be maintained at a level equivalent to between nine and twelve month’s expenditure.” — page 5
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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.

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 31/03/2024

  • Volunteers: 1
  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

  • Grant-making is its main activity

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

Corporate structure

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

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.

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Kenya · Oxfordshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£142k£116k
31/03/2024£135k£114k
31/03/2023£115k£132k
31/03/2022£160k£114k
31/03/2021£116k£120k

Common questions

Is KENYA CHILDREN CENTRES financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted funds total £166,912, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of nine to twelve months' expenditure. The charity reports a net movement in funds of £25,610 for the year, with no employees and trustee-administered overheads ensuring donor income is directed to projects. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds KENYA CHILDREN CENTRES?

Funders whose own accounts filings name KENYA CHILDREN CENTRES as a grant recipient include ALLAN AND NESTA FERGUSON CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT, HELP CHANGE LIVES.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
ALLAN AND NESTA FERGUSON CHARITABLE SETTLEMENTFY2024£7kOverseas education
HELP CHANGE LIVESFY2024£3kFeeding programme at Umoja Primary School in Thika, Kenya

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 BALA CHILDREN'S CENTRE KENYA.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
KENYA CHILDREN CENTRES£142k—0above—no doubt
BALA CHILDREN'S CENTRE KENYA FY2025£56k—0unclear—no doubt
KARIBUNI CHILDREN FY2025£324k—0above—no doubt
EAST AFRICA CHILDREN'S PROJECT FY2025£91k—0above—no doubt
FRIENDS OF KENYA'S CHILDREN FY2025£48k—0unclear—no doubt
THE KISUMU CHILDREN TRUST FY2025£146k——below—no doubt

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