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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.

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

Latest income
£193k
Latest spending
£194k
Registered
2019
Accounts read
FY2025

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

Reserves policy: three months of unrestricted expenditure (held: £22k)
“It is the policy of Raising Futures Kenya to maintain the unrestricted reserves of the charity at a level sufficient to meet its committed spend, management, administration & support costs for a period of 3 months.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Kenya

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2025£193k£194k
31/12/2024£221k£226k
31/12/2023£246k£213k
31/12/2022£201k£213k
31/12/2021£211k£205k

Common questions

Is RAISING FUTURES KENYA financially healthy?

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. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds RAISING FUTURES KENYA?

Funders whose own accounts filings name RAISING FUTURES KENYA as a grant recipient include THE DULVERTON TRUST, Brian Mercer Trust, EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION, ALLAN AND NESTA FERGUSON CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT, FONTHILL FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE DULVERTON TRUSTFY2025£31kGrowing Seeds of Hope
Brian Mercer TrustFY2024£30kPrevention and Relief of Human Suffering
Brian Mercer TrustFY2023£30k
EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATIONFY2023£25kInternational projects
ALLAN AND NESTA FERGUSON CHARITABLE SETTLEMENTFY2023£20k
FONTHILL FOUNDATIONFY2023£20kCommencement of our commitment for their vocational centre build in Nairobi
THE GREEN ROOM CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£20kPipal tree Tom Prickett
EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATIONFY2022£11kInternational
THE COLES-MEDLOCK FOUNDATIONFY2024£10k
THE COLES-MEDLOCK FOUNDATIONFY2025£10k
THE ARCHER TRUSTFY2024£5k
THE PETER STEBBINGS MEMORIAL CHARITYFY2023£5k
THE GEORGE AND ESME POLLITZER CHARITABLE SETTLEMENTFY2023£5k
THE GEORGE AND ESME POLLITZER CHARITABLE SETTLEMENTFY2022£5k
DIDYMUSFY2022£5k
THE ASHWORTH CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£4kInternational
THE ANCHOR FOUNDATIONFY2022£4k
THE ANCHOR FOUNDATIONFY2023£4k
W F SOUTHALL TRUSTFY2022£3kSocial Action
W F SOUTHALL TRUSTFY2023£3kSocial Action
THE RAINFORD TRUSTFY2024£3kWelfare
THE ARCHER TRUSTFY2022£3kRuns the Seeds of Hope vocational training programme.
THE GIBBS CHARITABLE TRUSTSFY2025£2kInternational
R G HILLS CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024£2k
THE STERRY FAMILY FOUNDATIONFY2025£2kEducation
GILCHRIST EDUCATIONAL TRUSTFY2022£2k
THE S M B TRUSTFY2025£2k
THE AUSTIN BAILEY FOUNDATIONFY2023£1kSmall Grant
THE ARCHER TRUSTFY2023£1kCharitable activities
GILCHRIST EDUCATIONAL TRUSTFY2023£1k
R G HILLS CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£1k
MISS E F RATHBONE CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2022£1k
THE AUSTIN BAILEY FOUNDATIONFY2022£1k
MISS E F RATHBONE CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£1kINTERNATIONAL
THE PETER STEBBINGS MEMORIAL CHARITYFY2024£0

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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
KIDS IN KATHMANDU NEPAL1£42k
HALCROW FOUNDATION1£3k
THE TULA TRUST LIMITED1£3k
HELP CHANGE LIVES1£3k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FEEDING FUTURES.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
RAISING FUTURES KENYA£193k—0within—no doubt
FEEDING FUTURES FY2025£103k—0unclear—noted
FUTURES FOR KIDS FY2025£308k—0above—no doubt
The Kisomo Foundation FY2024£167k—0above—no doubt
MEDICAL AND EDUCATIONAL AID TO KENYA FY2025£97k—0above—no doubt
KENYA CHILDREN CENTRES FY2025£142k—0above—no doubt

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