LA VIDA VITAL INVESTMENT FOR DEVELOPMENT AID IN LATIN AMERICA

Registered charity 1115796 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

La Vida is a small, effective, 100% volunteer run Latin American charity supporting communities health, education and environment. Founded in 2006, La Vida distributes grants in areas such as youth development, primary and secondary education initiatives, school expansions and community health and environmental programmes.

Objects

TO FURTHER ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF DISADVANTAGED PEOPLE RESIDING PERMANENTLY IN LATIN AMERICA, IN PARTICULAR, BY PRESERVING AND PROTECTING HEALTH, RELIEVING SICKNESS, RELIEVING POVERTY AND ADVANCING EDUCATION.

Area of benefit: LATIN AMERICA

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that La Vida raised £60,454 in total receipts and spent £72,923 on payments, resulting in a net decrease in cash funds of £12,469 for the year. The charity maintains reserves of £88,057, which the trustees confirm represents six months of ongoing commitments to projects. All trustees and executive committee members work on a voluntary basis with no remuneration disclosed.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — La Vida (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The LATA Foundation — “La Vida would not exist without the support of our partners and sponsors. A special thanks to the following organisations Our Partners The L…” (source page)
• First State’s Maitri Charitable Foundation — “Corporate Donations Bradesco Securities BTG Pactual Deutsche Bank CIBC First State’s Maitri Charitable Foundation” (source page)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• KATY JANE VATISchair
• ANA BEATRIZ ALENCAR
• HELEN ILSLEY
• IVONNE CANTU · trustee of 1 other charity
• Susana Knaudt
• ZARELA FEENEY

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

Operates in: Argentina · Bolivia · Brazil · Colombia · Costa Rica · Ecuador · Guatemala · Honduras · Mexico · Peru · Venezuela

Income and spending

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