HIMALAYAN YOUTH FOUNDATION UK

Registered charity 1124243 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

HYF-UK works to improve the education, health and living conditions for children between the ages of 6 and 25 living in the Himalayan Region, and supports the Kailash Hostel run by the Himalayan Childrens Foundation in Nepal, and the Choki Traditional Arts School in Bhutan.The charity seeks to identify financial sponsors for individual children and to raise funds for specific projects.

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, RELIEVE POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AND PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE GOOD HEALTH OF CHILDREN, PARTICULARLY THOSE AGED 6 TO 18, LIVING IN THE HIMALAYAN REGION IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: THE HIMALAYAN REGION

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Northumberland, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity raised £153,100 and distributed £161,800 during the period, resulting in a net decrease in cash funds. The trustees report that the charity operates a reserve policy to cover sponsor defaults and currency risks, with unrestricted cash funds totaling £23,520 at the year-end.

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

What the accounts disclose

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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — HYF-UK (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• GERALD FRANCIS SLATERchair
• Catherine Jane Kerr · trustee of 2 other charities
• Karen Russell

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

Operates in: Bhutan · Nepal

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 THE HIMALAYAN TRUST UK CIO.

• THE HIMALAYAN TRUST UK CIO income £263k
• HIMALAYAN CHILDREN income £23k
• HIMALAYAN LITERACY AND EDUCATION SUPPORT FUND income £24k
• HANDS TOGETHER - TIPLYANG PROJECT income £37k
• THE HAILEYBURY YOUTH TRUST income £159k
• THE DUSTY YAK FOUNDATION income £35k

Side by side with its peers

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