INDOCHINA STARFISH FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1115484 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ISF

Assisting street and garbage dump children in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Objects

TO PROMOTE GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES WITH CAMBODIA THROUGH;A) THE PROMOTION OF RELIEF FROM HARDSHIP AND SOCIAL AND/OR ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGE. THE RELIEF FROM FINANCIAL HARDSHIP MAY BE THROUGH THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL AID/GRANTS, GOODS OR SERVICES.B) THE PROVISION AND ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, TRAINING AND RETRAINING WITHIN THE COMMUNITY.C) THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT AND PROVISION OF WORK EXPERIENCE. SPECIFIC FOCUS WILL BE GIVEN TO THE FINANCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT OF DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY AS THEY DEVELOP AND MATURE.

Area of benefit: CAMBODIA

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Plymouth, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity maintained a sound financial position with net assets of US$3,728,579 and unrestricted reserves of US$950,445. The trustees report that operational reserves were US$2,029,889, with US$950,445 available for general use, indicating prudent financial management despite unpredictable income sources. The auditor confirmed no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PKF Francis Clark. 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.

• 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
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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
• Trustee expenses 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2022 (received 14/11/2023, 14 days after the 31/10/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05798114

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.

• HEALY, Patrick — director, appointed 10/05/2026on trustee list
• ROSKELL, Jeffrey James — director, appointed 19/10/2025on trustee list
• KITT, Tanya — director, appointed 15/01/2024on trustee list
• MOLYNEUX, Kirsten Marie — director, appointed 26/08/2021on trustee list
• LEUNG, Sau Ting Miranda — director, appointed 07/12/2019on trustee list
• LORENZ, Erik — director, appointed 20/12/2018on trustee list
• MURRAY, Martin James — director, appointed 01/04/2014on trustee list
• GAZZI, Robert Andrew — director, appointed 01/07/2013on trustee list
• BROGAN, Leo Joseph — director, appointed 01/07/2013on trustee list
• ASHALL, Anthony Mark — director, appointed 27/04/2006on trustee list
• CUBBON, Martin — director, appointed 27/04/2006on trustee list
• LEUNG, Miranda Sau Ting — secretary, appointed 21/03/2020

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~10.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (98% 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: 10.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Erik Lorenz
• Jeffrey James Roskell
• Kirsten Marie Molyneux
• LEO JOSEPH BROGAN
• MARK ASHALL
• MARTIN CUBBON
• Martin James Murray
• Miranda Sau Ting Leung · trustee of 1 other charity
• Patrick Healy
• ROBERT ANDREW GAZZI
• Tanya Kitt

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

Operates in: Cambodia

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with STARFISH ASIA.

• STARFISH ASIA income £655k
• STARFISH ZAMBIA income £33k
• STARFISH GREATHEARTS FOUNDATION income £343k
• STARFISH SERVICES LIMITED income £76k
• STARFISH MALAWI income £220k
• THE STARFISH ALLIANCE income £75k

Side by side with its peers

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