Empowering Kids in Kenya

Registered charity 1161130 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LITTLE FACES SCHOOLS, KENYA

Empowering Kids in Kenya provides secondary school education to the poorest of the poor children in the Bombolulu suburb of Mombasa, Kenya. Only children who cannot afford an education are accepted into the school. They are charged no fees, no charge for uniforms nor food. Without the generosity of child sponsors and supporters, these children would not be able to attend this exceptional school.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS IN MOMBASA AND SURROUNDING AREAS BY PROVIDING FACILITIES AT BOMBOLULU SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR EDUCATION AND WORK EXPERIENCE TRAINING AND IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES THINK FIT.

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £22,621 for the year ended 31 December 2025, compared to £1,439 in the previous year. Total funds at year-end were £179,101, with unrestricted funds of £29,432 and restricted funds of £22,380. The trustees report that the charity continues to thrive and expand its educational offerings.

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

What the accounts disclose

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• 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

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 — Empowering Kids in Kenya (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• SALLY DIANE SEARLEchair
• BEN CLAY
• CHRIS BRYANS
• Mary Elizabeth Whitehead
• PAUL GRAHAM
• VIVIAN PEROSE

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

Operates in: Kenya · Throughout England And Wales

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 The Kisomo Foundation.

• The Kisomo Foundation income £178k
• EDUCAID AFRICA income £20k
• KENYA CHILDREN CENTRES income £142k
• JUST BE A CHILD income £88k
• KENYA HOPE CHARITY income £29k
• AFRICA'S CHILDREN IN EDUCATION income £47k

Side by side with its peers

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