Child-Link International Aid Foundation

Analysis

Child-Link International Aid Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Wiltshire. It was registered in March 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty, overseas aid/famine relief and religious activities, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 06828539). It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Child-Link International Aid Foundation reported income of £43k and spending of £56k, spending 131% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £65k to £43k (-35%), an average of -10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income dropped by 48%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Child-Link International Aid Foundation sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 53% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 58th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ali Adam Trust (£43k), The Roston Charitable Trust (£43k) and Saltburn Solidarity (£43k).