Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 7
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

CHANCE FOR CHILDHOOD

Overview

Chance for Childhood have been a pillar for change in some of the most deprived countries in Africa. They have helped implement projects that allow disabled children to feel more included and street children feel safer.

Having aided children since 1992, their strong partnerships with a variety of organisations has kept them influential with local authorities and governments. Merging with key partners at the right time has broadened their reach and allowed them to continue making the impact they set out to accomplish almost 20 years ago.

Source: Giving is Great

Mission:

Helping children who are disabled, live on streets, have been in prison or are victims of conflict, to integrate into society
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
  • There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23?£1,555£1,429£126£259£395£1621.4222
31/12/21£970£975£-5£159£260£1051.3162
31/12/20£868£1,015£-147£182£264£1211.4152
31/12/19£1,402£1,327£75£169£410£1451.3164
31/12/18£1,136£1,314£-178£148£337£1351.2111
31/12/17£1,217£1,318£-100£154£512£1611.590
31/12/16£1,605£1,282£323£174£613£1401.3100
31/12/15£810£688£122£118£290£1362.450
31/12/14£622£595£27£101£168£681.440
31/12/13£589£524£64£79£142£621.430
31/12/12£462£647£-185n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/11?£601£680£-79£127£262£1733.150
30/04/10*£749£678£72£62£422£225460
30/04/09*£678£883£-206£83£350£223360
30/04/08*£713£877£-164£59£556£2142.980
30/04/07*£896£887£9£46£720£3644.980
30/04/06*£949£871£78n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/05*£869£913£-44n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/04*£746£594£152n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 16.7%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 18.1%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 18%
Liabilities/Income: 7%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 41%
Reserves/Spending: 1.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 3.4
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Comment: Their substantial income growth in the 2015-16 financial year was due to a merger with the charity Street Child Africa. This enabled them to broaden their reach and the recent merger with Glad's House hopes to repeat this progress

Source: Giving is Great

Established: 32 years

www.chanceforchildhood.org

info@chanceforchildhood.org

01483203250

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What it does
Chance for Childhood is an award-winning charity working in Africa to support the most vulnerable children, often invisible from society, such as street children, disabled children, children affected by conflict and children in conflict with the law. These children are often hidden members of their communities, unable to go to school, excluded from society and living in abject poverty.
Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • Overseas Aid/Famine Relief
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Legal & financial advice
How it operates
  • Makes grants to organisations
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Congo (Democratic Republic), Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People With Disabilities

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Comic Relief£210,205
The EQ Foundation£40,738
Charles Hayward Foundation£15,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The EQ Foundation - Grant to CHANCE FOR CHILDHOOD
£18,238 04/03/2023
Big Give Champion Pledge
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Chance for Childhood
£15,000 27/05/2022
Pig Farming project, Rwanda
The EQ Foundation - Grant to CHANCE FOR CHILDHOOD
£12,500 15/02/2022
Big Give Champion Pledge
Comic Relief - Natwe Turashoboye: Protection, Participation, Inclusion & Empowerment for Girls
£210,205 23/03/2021
Natwe Turashoboye meaning 'we can also' in Kinyarwanda aims to improve inclusion, participation & protection of D/deaf girls in Rwanda at 3 levels. Individual: dance therapy, safe spaces, agency ....more
The EQ Foundation - Grant to Chance for Childhood
£10,000 05/02/2021
Big Give Christmas Challenge 2020
Comic Relief - Beyond Grants Pilot
£68,821 10/02/2019
3
Chance for Childhood has set out to increase five-fold to 50,000 the number of children and young people supported in their 5 core countries:The application focuses on support to the development of a ....more
Dulverton Trust - Farming the Future
£15,000 08/06/2016
Farming the Future
Comic Relief - Pilot supporting young street-connected mothers to improve outcomes through quality ECD in Accra
£177,247 16/03/2016
24
A recent census found there are more than 30,000 young girls living and working on the streets of Accra, capital of Ghana. Many have given birth themselves and have small children to support. To ....more
Comic Relief - LEAP from the Street - Learning, Educating and Protecting
£695,993 25/11/2015
48
Detailed research done by Chance for Childhood (CfC) shows that significant proportion of the children with street connections have challenges in expressing themselves. This impediment is likely to ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 31-61
  • CAROLE RAMELLA Appointed: 2020 Occupation: Managing Director
Carole has over twenty years’ experience in fundraising advisory, financial analysis and company valuation having worked with Paribas, Arthur Anderson and Duff & Phelps among others. She has experience among a large number of sectors, including IT, publishing and logistics, and has worked with companies across 15 countries. As well as....more
  • DERRICK BETTS Appointed: 2023 Occupation: Partner- Ey
  • ELIZABETH KIGOZI NTEGE Appointed: 2020 Occupation: Group Director
Elizabeth is the Co-founder and Director of NFT Consult Group, a business process outsourcing and consultancy firm with offices across East Africa. She has extensive experience in business strategy and transformation, serving as business advisor and integrator at Uganda’s largest start-up business incubator, an international partner and....more
  • JANINE MCKELVEY Appointed: 2024 Occupation: General Counsel Data And Bt Group Data Protection
  • MAX WHICHER Appointed: 2023 Occupation: Ceo
  • NICOLETTA GOPSILL-PICCOLROVAZZI Appointed: 2022 Occupation: Co-Founder & Chairwoman
  • RICHARD CHARLES EDWARDS Appointed: 2021 Occupation: Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 11/08/1992, number: 1013587
  • Registered at Companies House on 29/07/1992, number: 02735643
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • 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
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR10: 193 days late, AR09: 232 days late, AR08: 229 days late, AR07: 222 days late, AR06: 237 days late, AR05: 238 days late, AR04: 146 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from GLAD'S HOUSE on 08/06/2020
  • Asset transfer in from LINKING ARMS WITH RESCUED KIDS on 06/01/2021
Main office

PO Box 3030
Romford
Essex
RM7 1US

Objectives

TO PREVENT AND/OR RELIEVE POVERTY AND OTHER CHARITABLE NEEDS, AND IMPROVE WELLBEING, AMONGDISADVANTAGED AND/OR VULNERABLE CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND/OR THEIR FAMILIES BY SUCH CHARITABLE MEANS ASTHE TRUSTEES THINK FIT;TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR DISADVANTAGED AND/OR VULNERABLE CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND/OR THEIR FAMILIES;TO ADVANCE THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF CHILDREN AND/OR YOUNG PEOPLE BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS:ADVANCING THE INCLUSION, EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN AND/OR YOUNG PEOPLE, INCLUDING THOSEWITH DISABILITIES;SEEKING REDRESS FOR, AND/OR THE RELIEF OF NEED OF, CHILD AND OTHER YOUNG VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE,AND/OR SUPPORTING CHILDREN AND/OR YOUNG PEOPLE WHO COME INTO CONFLICT WITH THE LAW;RAISING AWARENESS OF, AND/OR EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ABOUT, THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF CHILDREN AND/OR YOUNGPEOPLE.NOTHING IN THE ARTICLES SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CHARITY FOR PURPOSES WHICH ARENOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005AND/OR SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008.IN THE DEFINITIONS SECTION: HUMAN RIGHTS MEANS ANY OR ALL OF THE RIGHTS SET OUT IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATIONOF HUMAN RIGHTS, THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD, AND THE UNITED NATIONSCONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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