UMOJA STREET CHILD TRUST

Registered charity 1168734 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Umoja Street Child Trust exists to support, fund and facilitate the work of the Umoja Boys Rescue Centre (UBRC) in Kwale, Kenya. The UBRC in turn exists to rescue, rehabilitate and restore street-living boys in Kenya. As part of these processes we also care for them at every stage, and enable the boys to either access education (by sending them to school) or we provide education on site.

Objects

TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND ADVANCE EDUCATION OF STREET CHILDREN PARTICULARLY IN MOMBASA IN SUCH CHARITABLE WAYS UNDER THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES MAY DETERMINE

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Accommodation/housing · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the period with a net deficit of -£1,856, resulting from total incoming receipts of £102,475 against payments of £103,332. The trustees report that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £2,714, which is below the stated policy target of three months of unrestricted expenditure. The trustees confirm there are no concerns about the charity continuing as a going concern despite citing dwindling supporter support as a principal risk.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev LUKE IDEN WICKINGSchair
• MISS GRACE WICKINGS BA DEVELOPMENT
• Sarah Grier
• Sophia Mutio

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

Operates in: City Of London · Kenya

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE KISUMU CHILDREN TRUST.

• THE KISUMU CHILDREN TRUST income £146k
• CONGO CHILDREN TRUST income £248k
• MERCY RESCUE TRUST income £119k
• STREET CHILD UNITED income £483k
• SUPPORT AND LOVE VIA EDUCATION INTERNATIONAL income £268k
• NEW LIFE HOME TRUST UK CIO income £95k

Side by side with its peers

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