EXTRA COVER SRI LANKA

Registered charity 1139792 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Our objectives are to help some of Sri Lanka's poorest children and their families, young adults and those with disabilities. These are carried out through a) the provision of food, clean water, uniforms, shoes and stationery b) the building and renovation of houses, classrooms and playgrounds c) the creation of tea and cinnamon cooperatives. All funded either directly or by offering grants.

Objects

1) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN IN RURAL SRI LANKA;2) TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE GOOD HEALTH OF CHILDREN IN RURAL SRI LANKA, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY BUILDING WELLS, ENSURING WATER IS CLEAN AND SAFE, PROVIDING FOOD PACKS AND TOILETRIES FOR SANITATION AND ENSURING THAT ANY TOILET FACILITIES ARE CLEAN

Area of benefit: SRI LANKA

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Chichester, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted cash funds stood at £68,117, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of approximately one year of unrestricted charitable expenditure. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention that would cause concern regarding the accounts or the charity's operations.

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 5 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
• Investment

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/01/2021 (received 10/12/2021, 10 days after the 30/11/2021 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 profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• MATTHEW HANSFORDchair
• FATHER ROBERT EASTON
• JILL HANSFORD

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

Operates in: Sri Lanka

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 ONE CHILD FOUNDATION (SRI LANKA) LTD.

• ONE CHILD FOUNDATION (SRI LANKA) LTD income £131k
• OUR SOCIETY UNITED KINGDOM income £59k
• CARE SRI LANKA income £76k
• KARUVI (SRDA) - UK income £27k
• AL IHSAN TRUST SRI LANKA income £193k
• THE RAHULA TRUST income £146k

Side by side with its peers

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