CHILD ACTION

Registered charity 1133661 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE SHARMA FOUNDATION

To preserve and protect physical and psychological health and wellbeing by providing and assisting in the provision of facilities, support services and equipment not normally provided by the statutory authorities.

Objects

TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES, SUPPORT SERVICES AND EQUIPMENT NOT NORMALLY PROVIDED BY THE STATUTORY AUTHORITIES

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, INDIA.

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £94,409, with the trustees noting that the charity does not carry any overheads and therefore has no reserve policy. Fundraising costs were minimal at £688, while total voluntary income was £119,396, resulting in a net incoming resource of £65,121 for the year.

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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• 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 07060072 · Financial health read from its filings

Funders the charity credits

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

• British Asian Trust — “This inspired us to partner with the British Asian Trust, one of the Princes' charities, to explore grit, determination and entrepreneurship…” (source page)

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.

• INGLOT, Aleksandra — director, appointed 31/07/2024on trustee list
• SHARMA, Sanjay, Professor — director, appointed 29/10/2009on trustee list
• SHARMA, Seema, Dr — director, appointed 29/10/2009on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Aleksandra Inglot
• Dr SANJAY SHARMA
• Seema Sharma

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

Operates in: India · Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHILDREN'S EARLY INTERVENTION TRUST.

• CHILDREN'S EARLY INTERVENTION TRUST income £53k
• ACTION FOR CHILDREN income £163.4m
• CHILD RIGHTS AND YOU UK income £84k
• CHILD ACTION NORTHWEST income £8.0m
• OUR HIDDEN TREASURE income £111k
• FUND FOR ACTION THROUGH EDUCATION income £30k

Side by side with its peers

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