LAUGHTER AFRICA

Registered charity 1154712 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

1.Dealing with the immediate needs of the street children.Whatever they need,we are willing to provide. 2.The Interim Care Centre is where the street children live while we find their families. At the centre, food, clothing, health care, and other essentials are provided.3.Reuniting street children with their families.Once they return home,we pay for school fees or vocational training.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF HOUSING, AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR STREET CHILDREN AND OTHER CHILDREN OR YOUNG PEOPLE AT RISK IN AFRICA.WE AIM TO DO THIS IN 3 MAIN WAYS:1) BY ESTABLISHING A HOME/DROP IN CENTRE WHICH IS A SAFE SPACE FOR CHILDREN OR YOUNG PEOPLE LIVING ON THE STREETS WHO ARE NOT ABLE TO BE PLACED BACK WITH THEIR FAMILIES FULL TIME BUT DO NOT WANT TO LIVE ON THE STREETS ANY LONGER. AT THE HOME, FOOD, CLOTHING, HEALTH CARE, EDUCATION, TRAINING, COUNSELLING, SUPPORT AND OTHER ESSENTIALS WILL BE PROVIDED.2) BY STARTING THE REUNIFICATION PROCESS OF STREET CHILDREN WHO WANT TO BE REUNITED WITH THEIR FAMILIES (THIS IS DEPENDENT ON IF THE FAMILY SITUATION IS SAFE AND SECURE).3) BY ESTABLISHING STREET CLINICS FOR THOSE STREET CHILDREN WHO CHOOSE TO STAY ON THE STREET. STREET CLINICS WILL INVOLVE THE PROVISION OF FOOD, EDUCATION, ASSISTANCE, COUNSELLING AND OTHER SUPPORT.

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 · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wirral, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total expenditure for the year was £120,103.74, funded by £131,368.15 in receipts, resulting in a net increase in cash funds. The charity reports unrestricted reserves of £5,007.19, which the trustees note are quite low but align with their policy target of approximately three months' running costs estimated at £5,000.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Peter Kamaray &Co. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• 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
• Investment
• 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)

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Laughter Africa (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• JAMES FRANCIS ROBERT TYRRELL BA MAchair
• DAVID JAMES CARTMELL
• Dr Anne-Marie Stead
• QUENTIN MARK NEAL

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

Operates in: Sierra Leone

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ASSOCIATION FOR REACHING AND INSTRUCTING CHILDREN IN AFRICA.

• ASSOCIATION FOR REACHING AND INSTRUCTING CHILDREN IN AFRICA income £95k
• HELPING EDUCATING AND REBUILDING LIVES income £78k
• SHELTER COMMUNITY income £132k
• THE AFRICA CENTRE LIMITED income £643k
• INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN RELIEF income £385k
• FRONTLINE CHILDREN income £13k

Side by side with its peers

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