FARA FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1139349 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

FARA has worked with abandoned and vulnerable children and young people in Romania, many with disabilities, since 1991. It aims to transform their lives by providing family-style homes, recovery and training in four residential centres, social support to promote school attendance in six villages and, in four centres, special needs education and specialist child therapy.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held £11.768m in unrestricted reserve funds at year-end, which the Trustees consider adequate to cover approximately six months of operating costs and grant obligations. The charity reported a net income surplus of £104,544 for the year, driven by retail income and investment gains, despite rising operational costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Rothmans Audit LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07432706

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Fara Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Libby Gordon — CEO (source)
• Jane Nicholson — Founder (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

• BONNER, Michelle Elizabeth — director, appointed 06/01/2026on trustee list
• BRAUN, Susan Dorothy Margaret — director, appointed 01/01/2026on trustee list
• GUNARATNAM, Paul Jeyanathan — director, appointed 01/01/2026on trustee list
• BENDELL, Karen — director, appointed 07/07/2025on trustee list
• JOHNSON, Yik Siew ( Hannah), Dr — director, appointed 27/03/2024on trustee list
• DAVIDSON, Robert — director, appointed 09/12/2021on trustee list
• MIDDLETON, Elizabeth Hannah Austen — director, appointed 08/03/2021on trustee list
• CHALK, Richard Hugh Charles — director, appointed 08/07/2015on trustee list
• CROSS, Siobhan Geraldine — director, appointed 04/03/2014on trustee list
• DAWSON, Lucinda Jane — director, appointed 04/03/2014on trustee list
• PHELAN, Raphael Anthony — secretary, appointed 15/12/2010

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

14 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~10.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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: 84.0% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/10/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Siobhan Geraldine Crosschair
• Dr Yik Siew Hannah Johnson
• Elizabeth Hannah Austin Middleton
• Karen Bendell
• Lucinda Jane Dawson
• Michelle Elizabeth Bonner
• Paul Jeyanathan Gunaratnam
• Richard Hugh Charles Chalk
• Robert Davidson
• Susan Braun

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

Operates in: Romania

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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