MALAIKA KIDS UK

Registered charity 1118149 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Current Activities include the support of the Malaika Orphange in Dar es Salaam and its Relatives' Support Programme, as well as the ongoing building and developing of a Children's Village in Mkuranga, Tanzania.

Objects

1. TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND PROMOTE HEALTH AND EDUCATION FOR THE NEEDY CHILDREN OF DAR ES SALAAM OR OTHER NEEDY TANZANIAN CHILDREN BY SUPPORTING MALAIKA KIDS TANZANIA AND BY COOPERATING WITH OTHER CHARITIES AND ORGANIZATIONS WORLDWIDE. 2. TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND PROMOTE HEALTH AND EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN IN TANZANIA AND IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD WHERE SUCH NEEDS ARE EVIDENT BY SUPPORTING PROJECTS AND OTHER WORK UNDERTAKEN TO FURTHER THESE PURPOSES.

Area of benefit: DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA AND OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Latest income

£149k

Latest spending

£133k

Registered

2007

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held free reserves of £40,296 at the end of the year, alongside a designated Four-year Resilience Fund of £660,000. The trustees report that the organization relies on supporter generosity with no guaranteed funding, but maintains a reserve policy equivalent to four years of the approved budget to safeguard long-term stability.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: Donations (66% of income)

“Donations 126,470 142,724 98,767” — page 18

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: four years of the next year’s approved budget (held: £40k)

“the international trustees have set a resilience reserve equal to roughly four years of the next year’s approved budget for Malaika Kids Tanzania.” — page 3

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

Bullying and harassment 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
Investment
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

Volunteers: 2

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

Volunteers: 3

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

Volunteers: 3

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Malaika Kids UK (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

Received assets from another charity (12/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

ALAN SMITH EDWARDS
EMILE FARHI
Francesca Ann Edwards
Helen Veronica Marriage
John Duncan Whitworth
Martin David Stoll
NIGEL WEIR FAWKES
Sophie Florentin Siu
William Philip Cooke

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

Operates in: Tanzania

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£149k	£133k
31/12/2024	£191k	£137k
31/12/2023	£154k	£164k
31/12/2022	£164k	£124k
31/12/2021	£172k	£115k

Common questions

Is MALAIKA KIDS UK financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity held free reserves of £40,296 at the end of the year, alongside a designated Four-year Resilience Fund of £660,000. The trustees report that the organization relies on supporter generosity with no guaranteed funding, but maintains a reserve policy equivalent to four years of the approved budget to safeguard long-term stability. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds MALAIKA KIDS UK?

Funders whose own accounts filings name MALAIKA KIDS UK as a grant recipient include THE COLES-MEDLOCK FOUNDATION, DAVID LISTER CHARITABLE TRUST, THE MAGENI TRUST, THE TULA TRUST LIMITED, R G HILLS CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount
THE COLES-MEDLOCK FOUNDATION	FY2024	£10k
THE COLES-MEDLOCK FOUNDATION	FY2025	£10k
DAVID LISTER CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2026	£5k
DAVID LISTER CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£5k
THE MAGENI TRUST	FY2023	£3k
THE TULA TRUST LIMITED	FY2024	£2k
R G HILLS CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£2k
R G HILLS CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£2k
DAVID LISTER CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£2k
THE MAGENI TRUST	FY2024	£500

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
MALAWI ORPHAN FUND	1	£64k
THE KAJATAWA FOUNDATION	1	£38k
The ROSL Foundation	1	£10k
YORK BAPTIST CHURCH	1	£9k
WOODLEIGH IMPACT	1	£6k
WEST ROW BAPTIST CHURCH	1	£5k
THE FORRESTER FAMILY TRUST	1	£5k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CHRIST CHURCH BEDFORD	1	£4k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BALA CHILDREN'S CENTRE KENYA.

BALA CHILDREN'S CENTRE KENYA income £56k
MARAFIKI TRUST income £98k
HEAL PROJECT income £52k
MALAWI ORPHAN FUND income £121k
MYMALAWI income £212k
MASANGA UK income £42k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
MALAIKA KIDS UK	£149k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
BALA CHILDREN'S CENTRE KENYA FY2025	£56k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
MARAFIKI TRUST FY2025	£98k	—	0	below	—	no doubt
HEAL PROJECT FY2025	£52k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
MALAWI ORPHAN FUND FY2026	£121k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
MYMALAWI FY2025	£212k	—	0	below	—	no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.