GUATEMALAN FAMILIES ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1105241 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GFA

i) to promote the care, upbringing, establishment in life and support in their birth culture of children adopted from Guatemalaii) to advance the understanding of the public in the UK and Guatemala in general about the issues relating to inter-country adoption and all parties of the adoption triadiii) to promote general charitable purposes for the benefit of the community of Guatemala

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE:I) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN ADOPTED FROM GUATEMALA IN GUATEMALAN CULTURE.II) TO PROMOTE THE CARE, UPBRINGING AND ESTABLISHMENT IN LIFE OF CHILDREN BORN IN GUATEMALA, FOR WHOM INTERNATIONAL ADOPTION IS THE BEST OPTION FOR THEIR WELL-BEING, BY THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION AND ADVICE CONCERNING INTER-COUNTRY ADOPTION.III) TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN GUATEMALA AND THOSE FAMILIES WHO HAVE ADOPTED FROM GUATEMALA AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DETERMINE; PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THE RELIEF FROM FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND SICKNESS AND THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PEOPLE OF GUATEMALA.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Nicholas Harrisonchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Aaron Carlos Fernando Roosedale
• Hannah Cassel
• Marisa Bradley
• Natalia Paola Elizabeth Bradley
• Osvaldo Hernan Jack Whitehead
• PATRICIA ANNE PARTLETT
• SARAH ROSEMARY MOORE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sally Jane Tripp
• Thomas Peter Carswell
• Veronica Maybeli Nina Whitehead
• Victor Blaikley-Gomez

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Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

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