KIDASHA

Registered charity 1106156 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q132472277 · also known as CHILD WELFARE SCHEME

Kidasha works in partrnership with local organisations in Nepal to increase the aspiration, resilience and life chances of children growing up in urban poverty by improving physical and emotional wellbeing, reducing neglect, abuse and exploitation and increasing participation in education, learning and/or positive employment.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, PROMOTION OF EDUCATION, RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF HEALTH FOR THOSE IN NEED THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AND PARTICULARLY (WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) FOR THE BENEFIT OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN ALL RESPECTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF CHARITY IN ENGLAND AND WALES FROM TIME TO TIME.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income was £407,220 against expenditure of £431,028, resulting in a net deficit for the year. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £130,263, which the trustees note are above the stated policy minimum of £125,000 required to maintain activities for three months.

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 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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 — Kidasha (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• NICHOLAS JOHN BARRYchair
• ALUN GEORGE
• Andrew Ross McKee
• Karen Landles
• Nidhi Mittal

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

Operates in: Nepal

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with INTERNATIONAL NEPAL FELLOWSHIP.

• INTERNATIONAL NEPAL FELLOWSHIP income £713k
• SUPPORTING NEPAL'S CHILDREN income £48k
• LINCS2NEPAL income £146k
• COMMUNITY ACTION NEPAL income £572k
• CHILD EDUCATION NEPAL UK income £481k
• CHANCE FOR NEPAL income £81k

Side by side with its peers

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