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CHILDREN OF PEACE

Registered charity 1112301 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COP

Children of Peace is a non-partisan charity dedicated to building friendship, trust and reconciliation between Israeli and Palestinian children, aged 4 - 17, and their communities. Our aim is to develop a shared spirit via arts, education, health and sports programmes; so future generations might live and work peacefully side-by-side.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£32k
Latest spending
£8k
Registered
2005
Accounts read
FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that total reserves held at the end of the period were £5,000, which meets the trustees' agreed minimum reserve policy of £5,000. The independent examiner reported that they could not confirm the correctness of closing fund balances between unrestricted and restricted funds due to missing accounting records held by a previous bookkeeper.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: a specific minimum amount of £5,000 (held: £5k)
“The Trustees have agreed on a specific minimum amount of £5,000 to be kept in reserve.”
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Governance: Examiner disclosed inability to verify income classifications due to unresponsive bookkeeper and missing records.
“We were unable to verify income classifications between funds as accounting records were not available to support income during the course of our work. The records are held by a preceding bookkeeper who has not been responsive to request from us as Independent Examiners and the management at Children of Peace.” — page 13
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Children of Peace (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Israel · Occupied Palestinian Territories

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2024£32k£8k
31/12/2023£47k£16k
31/12/2022£16k£11k
31/12/2021£29k£24k
31/12/2020£8k£13k

Common questions

Is CHILDREN OF PEACE financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that total reserves held at the end of the period were £5,000, which meets the trustees' agreed minimum reserve policy of £5,000. The independent examiner reported that they could not confirm the correctness of closing fund balances between unrestricted and restricted funds due to missing accounting records held by a previous bookkeeper. Its FY2024 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund06/11/2006£10kA fact finding visit to Israel