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.

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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased significantly to £365,966 at year-end, largely due to an extraordinary £200,000 donation received in December. The charity reports a net income of £220,007 for the year, with total income of £792,806 against total expenditure of £572,799. The Trustees note that ordinary income fell by 1.5% when excluding extraordinary donations, but the overall financial position is described as considerably stronger than anticipated.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

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 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~7.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.1% 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

Common questions

Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

• NEW HOPE FOR CHILDREN income £171k
• CHILDREN CHANGE COLOMBIA income £1.3m
• THE SAVE THE CHILDREN FUND income £262.5m
• THE LOTUS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION income £186k
• CHAMOS - IN AID OF THE CHILDREN OF VENEZUELA income £242k
• JEWISH CHILD'S DAY income £637k

Side by side with its peers

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