LET THE CHILDREN LIVE!

Registered charity 1159113 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Let The Children Live! supports the work of Fundacion Vivan Los Ninos! (Funvini) with street-children and other needy children and young people in Colombia, mainly in the city of Medellin.

Objects

1. TO RELIEVE STREET-CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD PARTICULARLY (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) IN THE REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF SICKNESS, NEED, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS BY THE PROVISION OF MEDICAL SUPPLIES, CLOTHING, FOOD, SHELTER AND IN SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DETERMINE;2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY THE FOLLOWING: (I) PROVISION OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF SUCH CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS, AND TO ADVANCE THEIR FORMATION WITHIN THE DOCTRINES AND PRINCIPLES OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH;(II) FURTHERING RESEARCH INTO THE CAUSES AND NATURE OF THE CONDITIONS AND BEHAVIOUR OF SUCH CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, AND INTO THE MEANS OF THEIR IMPROVEMENT; AND THE DISSEMINATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC; (III) PROVISION OF DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION (EDUCATION ON SOCIAL, HEALTH AND ECONOMIC ISSUES), IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE IN RELATION TO THE CONDITIONS AND BEHAVIOUR OF SUCH CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH DELIVERY OF EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS. 3. TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH OF SUCH CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE BY ASSISTING IN THE PREVENTION OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND DELINQUENCY; AND IN THEIR PROTECTION FROM VIOLENCE, CRUELTY, DANGER OR EXPLOITATION AND OTHER VIOLATIONS OF THEIR HUMAN RIGHTS.

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Doncaster, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £460,544 at the end of 2025, exceeding the trustees' stated policy target of £300,000. However, the trustees note that maintaining this level is uncertain due to economic weakness and currency fluctuations, and the charity relies heavily on unpredictable extraordinary income such as legacies and large donations.

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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07140869

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.

• PROSSER, Gillian Mary — director, appointed 07/02/2022on trustee list
• BROWN, Paulette Rosemary — director, appointed 29/01/2010on trustee list
• GOODMAN, Stephen John, The Reverend — director, appointed 29/01/2010on trustee list
• ALLAN, Pauline Anne — secretary, appointed 29/01/2010

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gillian Mary Prosser
• PAULETTE ROSEMARY BROWN
• Rev STEPHEN JOHN GOODMAN

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

Operates in: Colombia

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHILDREN OF COLOMBIA.

• CHILDREN OF COLOMBIA income £35k
• FRIENDS OF COLOMBIA FOR SOCIAL AID income £26k
• NEW HOPE FOR CHILDREN income £171k
• IN MINISTRY TO CHILDREN income £68k
• NEW LIFE NYAMBENE income £77k

Side by side with its peers

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