SFAC

Registered charity 1186903 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as STRENGTHENING FAMILIES FOR ABANDONED CHILDREN, SUBSTITUTE FAMILIES FOR ABANDONED CHILDREN, Strengthening Families And Children

SFAC provides training, mentoring, and advice to adults working to care for and protect children. We provide support in social work, psychology (including trauma, therapeutic care, and protective behaviours), and judicial practices and processes. We work alongside local organisations (NGOs, governments and courts) and provide subsidies to small organisations so our support is accessible to all.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO PROMOTE AND DEVELOP FOSTERING PROJECTS FOR ABANDONED CHILDREN THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO:-4.1. THE PROVISION OF FAMILY AND CHILD SUPPORT SERVICES WITHIN LOCAL COMMUNITIES;4.2. THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO CHILDREN'S HOMES AND OLDER CHILDREN WITH EDUCATION FEES AND/OR VOCATIONAL TRAINING;4.3. ANY OTHER ACTIVITY THAT IS CHARITABLE BY LAW THAT WOULD AID THE RELIEF OF HARDSHIP AND POVERTY TO CHILDREN AND DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES AND ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £148,595, a significant increase from the previous year's £77,436, driven largely by a £100,000 legacy donation. The trustees report no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, noting that resources are adequate to meet liabilities as they fall due.

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
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Strengthening Families And Children (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/09/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Nigel Jonathan Priestley MBEchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Idris Muyiwa
• Jane Elizabeth Booth
• John Woodhouse
• Lilian Wheeler

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

Operates in: Australia · Brazil · Congo · Egypt · Eswatini · Ghana · India · Indonesia · Kenya · Lesotho · Morocco · Niger

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SAFE Foundation.

• SAFE Foundation income £268k
• SACAR income £1.2m
• SKILLS ACTIVE FORWARD income £105k
• FENLAND AREA COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE TRUST income £1.4m
• SAFE! SUPPORT FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AFFECTED BY CRIME income £1.6m
• CLUB SFC income £141k

Side by side with its peers

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