RAISING FUTURES KENYA

Registered charity 1181670 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RAISING FUTURES

Raising Futures Kenya breaks cycles of poverty and inequality through quality education, skills training, and wellbeing support. Focusing on children and youth, especially girls, we help them gain skills, qualifications, and confidence for employment or entrepreneurship. We partner with a Kenyan NGO, who deliver free, community-led vocational training, business skills, and wellbeing programmes.

Objects

(I) TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN KENYA IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY AND HELP MEET THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY.(II) THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY [OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP] AMONG CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN KENYA BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION, TRAINING, AND ALL THE NECESSARY SUPPORT NEEDED TO ENABLE INDIVIDUALS TO GENERATE A SUSTAINABLE INCOME AND BE SELF-SUFFICIENT.(III) TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY:(A) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE IN SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES;(B) THE PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE MEANS OF ACHIEVING ECONOMIC GROWTH AND REGENERATION.SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT MEANS DEVELOPMENT WHICH MEETS THE NEEDS OF THE PRESENT WITHOUT COMPROMISING THE ABILITY OF FUTURE GENERATIONS TO MEET THEIR OWN NEEDS.

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Brighton and Hove, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £192,787 against expenditure of £193,806, resulting in a slight deficit. The charity maintains unrestricted designated reserves of £22,451 in the UK, which the trustees confirm is sufficient to cover three months of UK running costs in line with their reserves policy.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Raising Futures Kenya (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Anonymous Funder — ““When our trustees sought to expand our grant-making in East Africa, we wanted to identify emerging programmes for which our grants could be…” (source page)
• Millennium Consulting — ““After nearly 20 years supporting Raising Futures Kenya, Jane and I had the privilege of visiting the charity’s Seed of Hope training centre…” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• Annette Louise Reid
• Christopher Muzonzini
• Daniel Bunter-Jayasuriya
• Dee Russell
• Joshua Dickinson
• Kieran Rafter
• Sophie Tanner
• Thomas Quayle

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

Operates in: Kenya

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with RISE AFRICA UK.

• RISE AFRICA UK income £96k
• FEEDING FUTURES income £103k
• TEAM KENYA income £156k
• Brighter Futures Foundation (Africa) income £169k
• JUST BE A CHILD income £88k
• FRIENDS OF KIANJAI KENYA income £41k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.