STAND BY ME

Registered charity 1185124 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KIDS ALIVE, KIDS ALIVE UK

WE CARE FOR OVER 4,000 KIDS ACROSS THE WORLD BUT NO TWO ARE THE SAME, SO WE TAKE CARE TO UNDERSTAND AND MEET EACH OF THEIR INDIVIDUAL NEEDS, FROM FOOD AND HEALTHCARE, TO LOVING PARENTS AND QUALITY EDUCATION. WE HELP THEM REACH THEIR FULL POTENTIAL, STAND ON THEIR OWN TWO FEET AND CHANGE THEIR FUTURES. WE HAVE TRANSFORMED THOUSANDS OF KIDS LIVES, AND WE ARE ONLY JUST GETTING STARTED.

Objects

AS AN EXPRESSION OF JESUS' LOVE, THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS:THE RELIEF AND PREVENTION OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS OF CHILDREN AROUND THE WORLD, REGARDLESS OF THEIR BELIEFS, ETHNICITY AND SOCIAL STATUS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING ACCOMMODATION, EDUCATION, HEALTHCARE, AND BY EMPOWERING FAMILIES TO BECOME SELF-SUFFICIENT.

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 · Religious Activities · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Havering, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reports total income of £3.13 million and unrestricted reserves of £1.09 million, maintaining a liquidity cover of 4.2 months against budgeted operating costs. The accounts were audited by Cooper & Co, who issued an unqualified opinion confirming a true and fair view. The trustees confirmed the charity is a going concern with adequate resources to continue operating for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Cooper & Co. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Investment
• 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)

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 — Stand by Me (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 3.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/09/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/05/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Edward Carpenter
• Elizabeth Staniforth
• GORDON JOSEPH HAYNES · trustee of 1 other charity
• Peter William Jordan

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

Operates in: Burma · Colombia · Dominican Republic · Ethiopia · India · Kenya · Moldova · Nepal · Romania

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ACTION FOR CHILDREN.

• ACTION FOR CHILDREN income £163.4m
• PLACE2BE income £28.9m
• STEPPING STONES OF CHESTER income £246k
• OUR KIDS income £19.3m
• FRONTLINE CHILDREN income £13k
• STANDING WITH GIANTS income £386k

Side by side with its peers

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