CHILDREN'S AID

Registered charity 1196869 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Children' Aid are an international humanitarian and poverty relief charity delivering support and relief services to children in the UK and overseas. We work across a number of areas delivering food aid, water aid, medical aid, shelter, education, wellbeing and disaster relief services wherever they are needed most.

Objects

TO SUPPORT AND PROMOTE THE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL WELLBEING OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY THOSE IN POOR AND DISADVANTAGED CIRCUMSTANCES, THOSE SUFFERING FROM ILLNESS, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY AND INCAPACITY OF ANY KIND AND THOSE WHO ARE DEPRIVED REGARDLESS OF THEIR GENDER, ABILITY OR DISABILITY, RELIGION, NATIONALITY, ETHNIC OR NATIONAL ORIGINS IN THE UK AND ELSEWHERE, EITHER DIRECTLY THROUGH THE PROVISION OF FUNDS, GRANTS, ITEMS AND SERVICES AND/OR THROUGH CHARITIES OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO SUPPORT INDIVIDUALS IN NEED.TO RELIEVE POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AMONGST CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE OVERSEAS WHO ARE DISPLACED OR LIVING IN DESOLATION AND/OR IMPOVERISHED CIRCUMSTANCES AND TO SUPPORT AND ADVANCE THE WELLBEING, EDUCATION AND HEALTH OF SUCH PERSONS THROUGH THE PROVISION OF FUNDS, GRANTS ITEMS OR SERVICES FOR PERSONS, BODIES AND ORGANISATIONS INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION, TRAINING, HEALTHCARE, SHELTER AND MEDICAL AID

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

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Registered contact address: Stockport, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2023 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year ended 31 December 2023 was £117,113, representing a 48% increase from the previous year. Total expenditure on charitable activities and wages amounted to £81,944, resulting in unrestricted cash funds of £6,378 at year-end. The trustees confirm that unrestricted general reserves are adequate to sustain ongoing operations in line with their reserves policy.

Automated summary of the FY2023 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2024 (received 04/11/2025, 4 days after the 31/10/2025 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Nadeem Mianchair
• Abdul Sattar · trustee of 2 other charities
• Kashef Ahmed

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

Operates in: Bangladesh · India · Kenya · Occupied Palestinian Territories · Pakistan · South Africa · Tanzania · Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHILDREN IN NEED FUND.

• CHILDREN IN NEED FUND income £34k
• Save a Child income £182k
• ACTION FOR CHILDREN income £163.4m
• RAISE THE CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL income £67k
• CHILD POVERTY ACTION GROUP income £6.3m
• CRISIS AID income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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