STREET CHILD

Registered charity 1128536 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q132471670 · also known as STREET CHILD OF SIERRA LEONE

RELIEF OF POVERTY & HARDSHIP AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE LIVING ON THE STREET BY PROVISION OF SHELTER, FOOD, HEALTH, EDUCATION, FAMILY RECONCILIATION AND OTHER SUCH CHARITABLE SERVICES; PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS OF CHILDREN; DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE MEMBERS OF SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES

Objects

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC:-A) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND HARDSHIP AMONG CHILDREN LIVING ON THESTREET AND YOUNG PEOPLE BY THE PROVISION OF SHELTER, FOOD, HEALTH ,EDUCATION, AND OTHER SUCH CHARITABLE SERVICES AS THE TRUSTEES FROMTIME TO TIME DEEM APPROPRIATE.B) TO PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS OF CHILDREN (AS SET OUT IN THE UNITEDNATIONS CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD 1989, BY ALL OR ANY OF THEFOLLOWING MEANS:I) MONITORING ABUSES OF HUMAN RIGHTSII) EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTSIII) RAISING AWARENESS OF HUMAN RIGHTS;IV) PROMOTING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR HUMAN RIGHTSV) PROMOTING RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AMONG INDIVIDUALS; ANDVI) ELIMINATING INFRINGEMENTS OF HUMAN RIGHTS.C) TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE MEMBERS OF SOCIALLYAND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES IN SUCH AWAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY, AND HELP MEET, THEIR NEEDSAND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY

Area of benefit: SIERRA LEONE

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves were £1.3m at 31 March 2025, which is within the trustees' approved target range of £0.85m to £1.6m. The charity reported total income of £22.3m and confirmed it is prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 10 (FY2024) → 12 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Complaints 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06749574
• Trading subsidiary: STREET CHILD TRADING LIMITED Companies House 09943198

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Street Child (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• DEWAR, Joanne Louise — director, appointed 08/07/2025on trustee list
• COLLISON, Daniel David Standish — director, appointed 02/11/2020on trustee list
• HUGHES, Sarah Elizabeth — director, appointed 02/11/2020on trustee list
• CIPPARRONE, Gabriele — director, appointed 17/12/2019on trustee list
• MISTRY, Kirti Dharmesh — director, appointed 17/12/2019on trustee list
• SALVATO, Andrea Vincenzo — director, appointed 11/09/2019on trustee list
• HEFFERNAN, Gareth James — director, appointed 11/09/2019on trustee list
• KOHNSTAMM, Emanuel — director, appointed 11/09/2019on trustee list
• RYAN, James Sean — director, appointed 11/09/2019on trustee list
• VAN DEN BERG, Martinus Gerardus Johannes — director, appointed 11/09/2019not on trustee list
• WALLERSTEINER, Anthony Kurt, Dr — director, appointed 01/04/2018not on trustee list
• MASON, Nicholas Julian Robert — director, appointed 17/06/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (93% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 15.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Anthony Wallersteiner MA, PHDchair · trustee of 3 other charities
• Andrea Vincenzo Salvato
• Daniel David Collison
• Emanuel Kohnstamm
• Gabriele Cipparrone
• Gary James Heffernan
• James Sean Ryan
• Joanne Dewar
• Kirti Mistry
• Martinus Gerardus Johannes Van Den Berg
• Nicholas Mason
• SARAH ELIZABETH HUGHES

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

Operates in: Afghanistan · Burundi · Cameroon · Congo (Democratic Republic) · Liberia · Mozambique · Nepal · Nigeria · Sierra Leone · Somalia · Sri Lanka · Sudan

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE STREETLIFE TRUST LIMITED.

• THE STREETLIFE TRUST LIMITED income £768k
• FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE income £1.5m
• STREET CHILD UNITED income £623k
• STREET TEAMS income £233k
• THE CHILDREN'S FAMILY TRUST income £9.7m
• STREET KIDS EDUCATION INITIATIVE income £27k

Side by side with its peers

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