FAMINTERNATIONAL

Registered charity 1176909 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Offering training in foster care in the U.K. for International social workers so that they can take these initiatives back to their own country to commence family based care there.Providing support, training and practical solutions to help vulnerable families who find themselves living in critical poverty. Our current family preservation programmes work primarily in Madagascar.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF PEOPLE LIVING IN MADAGASCAR AND AROUND THE WORLD:1) THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION, TRAINING, HEALTHCARE PROJECTS AND ALL THE NECESSARY SUPPORT DESIGNED TO ENABLE INDIVIDUALS TO GENERATE A SUSTAINABLE INCOME AND BE SELF-SUFFICIENT.2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES THINK FIT, INCLUDING BY AWARDING SPONSORSHIP, MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCES OR GRANTS TO ENABLE THEM TO ACCESS EDUCATION AND BY THE PROVISION OF EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS AND RESOURCES.3) THE RELIEF AND CARE OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITHOUT FAMILIES AND THOSE WHOSE FAMILIES ARE UNABLE TO PROPERLY CARE FOR THEM BY PROMOTING THE PROVISION OF HIGH QUALITY FOSTER CARE FOR SUCH CHILDREN AND BY SUPPORTING FOSTER CARERS THEMSELVES BY WAY OF TRAINING, SUPPORT AND PRACTICAL ADVICE IN MATTERS RELATING TO THE CARE AND UPBRINGING OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE.THIS PURPOSE TO BE FURTHERED IN COOPERATION AND PARTNERSHIP WITH THE RELEVANT LOCAL AND NATIONAL AUTHORITIES IN THE COUNTRY WHERE WORKING.4) THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF EQUIPMENT, FACILITIES, SERVICES AND ACCESS TO MEDICAL TREATMENT.

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased from £9,749 to £37,925, driven by a significant rise in restricted income from the Martin James Foundation. However, unrestricted funds moved into a deficit of £1,960 as charitable expenditure exceeded unrestricted incoming resources. The charity maintains no current liabilities and has sufficient cash at bank to cover its net assets.

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 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/02/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CATHERINE ANN BUTLIN
• JOHN WARREN BUTLIN
• TRINITY PARK

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

Operates in: Madagascar · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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