CHAFFINCH

Registered charity 1206986 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE RELIEF OF POVERTY BY PROVIDING FUNDS AND MATERIALSUPPORT FOR FOOD, SHELTER, EDUCATION, MEDICAL CARE, AND OTHER RELATEDEXPENSES TO SUPPORT THE CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE OF THE KIBERA SLUM, KENYA.THESE AIMS TO BE ACHIEVED THROUGH THE SUPPORT OF LOCALLY RUN PROJECTS ANDENTERPRISES.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE RELIEF OF POVERTY BY PROVIDING FUNDS AND MATERIAL SUPPORT FOR FOOD, SHELTER, EDUCATION, MEDICAL CARE, AND OTHER RELATED EXPENSES TO SUPPORT THE CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE OF THE KIBERA SLUM, KENYA. THESE AIMS TO BE ACHIEVED THROUGH THE SUPPORT OF LOCALLY RUN PROJECTS AND ENTERPRISES.

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: York, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operates with no paid staff, relying entirely on volunteers, which allows approximately 95p of every £1 donated to be spent directly on its aims in Kenya. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £8,204, which exceeds its stated policy target of approximately £5,000. The filing indicates that resources are adequate to continue operations with no material uncertainty regarding going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

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 policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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

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 — Chaffinch (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (31/10/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Benjamin Thomas Rees Edwardschair
• Elizabeth Mandziuk
• Kate Patricia Williamson
• Neil Hutton
• Sofia Alaines Guzzo
• Susan Rippon

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

Operates in: Kenya

Income and spending

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Known funders

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