Kamelia Kids

Registered charity 1154939 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CAMELIA BOTNAR CHILDREN'S CENTRE

Provision of specialist, high quality child care, education and support to include children with special and additional needs due to sickness, physical or mental disability, poverty or social and economic circumstances and with a view to improving their conditions of life and to provide support to their families.

Objects

TO SUPPORT ALL CHILDREN PARTICULARLY THOSE WITH SPECIAL AND ADDITIONAL NEEDS DUE TO SICKNESS, PHYSICAL OR MENTAL DISABILITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES THROUGH THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES, HELP AND EDUCATION, INCLUDING SUPPORT TO THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS, TO ENABLE THEM TO ACHIEVE THE BEST POSSIBLE EDUCATIONAL, DEVELOPMENTAL AND OTHER OUTCOMES.

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 · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted free reserves stood at £534,861, which is slightly below the trustees' policy target of approximately £548k. The charity reported a net income of £122,004 for the year, with total income increasing by 21% to £1,735,026. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by TC Group. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Kamelia Kids (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Suzanne — Nursery Operations Director (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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/06/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• KAY FRANCES HAFFENDENchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dorothy Grace Calderwood
• Keith Gordon Thompson
• LINDA MARGARET SMITH
• PETER RAWDON JARMAN

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with UK CARE FOR CHILDREN.

• UK CARE FOR CHILDREN income £1.7m
• Crawley Community Action income £406k
• THE KOOL KIDS CLUB income £226k
• KIDS MATTER income £892k
• CHILD ACTION income £119k
• CAREDUCATION TRUST LTD income £133k

Side by side with its peers

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