CHILDREN FIRST KENYA

Registered charity 1200726 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

At Children First Kenya, our top priority is to make education accessible to every child and fight for gender equality. We focus our work predominantly in parts of Kenya inhabited by the Pokot tribe. We believe that education is pivotal to ending child marriage and practice of FGM, and in turn to building a fair and bright future for everyone.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:- A) THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY, EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY, OF PEOPLE LIVING IN KENYA BY PROVIDING GRANTS AND ITEMS AND SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND/OR CHARITIES OR SUCH OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY; B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) BY PROVIDING FINANCIAL AND OTHER FORMS OF SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS IN KENYA; C) THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH AMONG PEOPLE RESIDING PERMANENTLY OR TEMPORARILY IN KENYA BY PROVISION OF FINANCIAL SUPPORT;D) TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF WOMEN, PARTICULARLY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THOSE WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED, OR ARE AT RISK OF EXPERIENCING, GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE AND FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION IN KENYA, BY THE PROVISION OF GRANTS AND ITEMS DIRECTED AT IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

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 received total income of £38,525 and spent £30,920, resulting in a net surplus for the period. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £7,605, which the trustees note can be held to maintain healthy cash levels for relief funding or emergency spending. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to attention regarding the keeping of accounting records or the accuracy of the accounts.

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.

• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 2 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2025 (received 14/03/2026, 42 days after the 31/01/2026 due date); year ending 31/03/2024 (received 27/02/2025, 27 days after the 31/01/2025 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

• CECILE-AGATHE BOUCHET
• Karolina Uniejewska
• Liliana Vandyk

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

Operates in: Kenya · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FRIENDS OF KIANJAI KENYA.

• FRIENDS OF KIANJAI KENYA income £41k
• THE EDUCATIONAL FRONTIER TRUST income £253k
• TEAM KENYA income £156k
• RAISING FUTURES KENYA income £193k
• THE KISUMU CHILDREN TRUST income £146k
• KARIBUNI CHILDREN income £324k

Side by side with its peers

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