MERCY RESCUE TRUST

Registered charity 1121584 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Mercy Rescue Trust runs a baby rescue centre in Kitale, Kenya. Babies who would otherwise be left to die are rescued, nursed back to health, and re-homed with local families. The centre is staffed by Kenyan nationals, maintaining the local culture and providing local employment.

Objects

TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND SICKNESS AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY SUPPORTING THE WORK OF THE BABY RESCUE CENTRE IN KITALE, KENYA

Area of benefit: KITALE, KENYA

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 · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net inflow of resources of £4,475 for the year ended 31 March 2025, a significant decrease from the previous year's £19,999. Total reserves stood at £180,040, comprising a General Fund of £29,211 and a Restricted Fund of £150,829. The trustees noted increasing costs in Kenya and domestic demands on donors but confirmed that sufficient liquid funds are available to meet ongoing commitments.

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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

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, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2025 (received 08/02/2026, 8 days after the 31/01/2026 due date); year ending 31/03/2023 (received 29/02/2024, 29 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 03/02/2022, 3 days after the 31/01/2022 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Mercy Rescue Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/04/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CLARE JENKINSchair
• Michael John Allen
• NEIL BRIDLE
• TIM CURNOCK

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

Operates in: Cornwall · Kenya

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 NEW LIFE HOME TRUST UK CIO.

• NEW LIFE HOME TRUST UK CIO income £95k
• COMMUNITY CARE RESOURCES INTERNATIONAL TRUST income £230k
• SAFE INTERNATIONAL income £109k
• MARAFIKI TRUST income £98k
• MISSION RELIEF income £748k
• KARIBUNI CHILDREN income £324k

Side by side with its peers

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