THE GAMBIAN CHILDREN'S FUND

Registered charity 1115746 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

During the year the Charity continued to raise funds from various sources.The charity applied all of its recources to funding the development of Joyces International School in the Gambia.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AGED 3 TO 8 YEARS AND THE TEACHERS OF SUCH CHILDREN IN GAMBIA.

Area of benefit: GAMBIA

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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Registered contact address: Brighton and Hove, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £35,142 against expenditure of £26,268, resulting in a surplus. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £20,146, which the trustees state are targeted at three times projected monthly costs to ensure stability. However, the independent examiner reported a matter of concern regarding fraudulent diversion of donations, noting losses of £1,247.

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 4 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2023 (received 07/06/2024, 38 days after the 30/04/2024 due date); year ending 30/06/2021 (received 10/02/2023, 286 days after the 30/04/2022 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Patricia Alexander
• Marlene Poole
• SHARON JERVIS

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

Operates in: The Gambia

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 GIVING OPPORTUNITIES TO ACHIEVE AND LEARN FOR THE GAMBIA.

• GIVING OPPORTUNITIES TO ACHIEVE AND LEARN FOR THE GAMBIA income £75k
• GAMBIA SCHOOL SUPPORT income £157k
• BACE income £48k
• TEACHER AID income £84k
• AFRICAN OYSTER TRUST income £52k
• The Gambian Schools Trust income £37k

Side by side with its peers

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