KIDS ALIVE INTERNATIONAL

Registered charity 1140641 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DAR EL AWLAD SCHOOL, HOPE FOR KIDS INTERNATIONAL, Kids Alive International (UK)

Kids Alive International (called Hope for Kids until Sept 2021) works around the world to provide quality holistic care to orphans and vulnerable children. Our vision is a world where every child has the opportunity to reach their full potential. We accomplish this by supporting Care Centres, Schools, Residential Care and Community Programmes operated by our US partner Kids Alive International.

Objects

1. THE RELIEF AND PREVENTION OF POVERTY IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD, IMPACTED BY NATURAL DISASTER, WAR, TROUBLE OR CATASTROPHE, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY: (I) PROVIDING CHILDREN'S HOMES FOR ORPHANS THAT HAVE NO OTHER ALTERNATIVE MEANS OF SUPPORT; (II) ASSISTING VULNERABLE CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES BY PROVIDING ACCESS TO, AND/OR DEVELOPMENT OF, HEALTH CARE, EDUCATION AND OTHER ACTIVITIES THAT BENEFIT COMMUNITIES; AND (III) SUPPORTING THEM IN WAYS THAT WILL ENABLE THEM TO GENERATE A SUSTAINABLE INCOME AND BECOME SELF-SUFFICIENT.2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC REGARDING THE NATURE, CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF POVERTY, PARTICULARLY FOR ORPHANS AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES, AND HOW APPROPRIATE SOLUTIONS CAN BE FOUND AND APPLIED.3. THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY ACTIVELY FOLLOWING THE CALL OF THE BIBLE TO CARE FOR THE NEEDS OF THE POOR AND PROMOTING THE ENGAGEMENT OF THE CHURCH TO PROVIDE HELP TO ORPHANS AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Peterborough, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net surplus of £5,231 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income of £290,325 and total expenditure of £285,094. However, unrestricted reserves fell significantly to £1,775, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of maintaining three months' budgeted expenditure. The accounts state there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, supported by funding commitments from its US partner.

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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• TONY BAILEYchair
• DAVID JAMES MORGANS
• Walter Corbey Dukes III

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

Operates in: Guatemala · Haiti · Kenya · Lebanon · Peru · Throughout England And Wales · Zambia

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 KIDS.

• KIDS income £9.4m
• PLAN INTERNATIONAL UK income £61.7m
• ACTION FOR CHILDREN income £163.4m
• LIFE IMPACT INTERNATIONAL (UK) income £9k
• CHILDREN'S AID income £377k
• CHILDLIFE income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

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