Classrooms for Kenya

Analysis

Classrooms for Kenya is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Horsham. It was registered in February 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, the prevention or relief of poverty and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to organisations, provides human resources and provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Classrooms for Kenya reported income of £44k and spending of £64k, spending 144% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £14k to £44k (+213%), an average of +33% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2025, when income rose by 82%. Over the whole period it spent 115% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Classrooms for Kenya sits at the 50th percentile: it is larger than about 50% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 59th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Poor Vicar's Charity (£44k), The Bishop of Southwark's Lent Fund (£44k) and The Angel Charitable Trust (£44k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.