KARUNA ACTION

Registered charity 1185570 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

POVERTY RELIEF IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND THE UK THROUGH SELF-HELP, MEDICAL, EDUCATIONAL AND TRAINING PROJECTS.

Objects

(A) TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED OR HARDSHIP OR WHO ARE AGED OR SICK AND TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS CAUSED THEREBY, INCLUDING (THOUGH NOT BY WAY OF LIMITATION) PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE AND THE PROMOTION OF GOOD HEALTH, IN SUCH PARTS OF THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT;(B) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN SUCH PARTS OF THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT;(C) TO RELIEVE UNEMPLOYMENT AND TO ADVANCE THE PROVISION OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND OTHERS IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES IN SUCH PARTS OF THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT;(D) TO PROMOTE AND FULFIL SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY IN SUCH PARTS OF THE WORLD WHERE THE TRUST MAY BE OPERATING AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the financial year with a slight net expenditure of £1,018 against total income of £359,054. Usable unrestricted reserves are reported to be around £16,000, which the Chair describes as being in a much better position to respond to needs. The trustees confirm the charity is a going concern with no funds in deficit at the year-end.

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 5 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 risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/11/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Catherine Mary Harrischair
• Cathrin Raine
• Clare Louise Brown
• George Leonard Dowdell
• Matthew Thomas Davis

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

Operates in: Albania · Congo (Democratic Republic) · Hampshire · India · Mongolia · Nepal · Peru · Russia · Spain · Sri Lanka · Uganda · Zambia

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 KNOWLEDGE AND ACTION FOUNDATION.

• KNOWLEDGE AND ACTION FOUNDATION income £44k
• INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN RELIEF income £406k
• REGIONS BEYOND UK income £353k
• COMBATING POVERTY THROUGH EDUCATION income £5k
• HELP IN NEED TODAY income £558k
• AID4ACTION income £108k

Side by side with its peers

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