Street Child United

Analysis

Street Child United is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cambridge. It was registered in December 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty, overseas aid/famine relief and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 07804893). It says it makes grants to organisations, provides human resources and provides services.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Street Child United reported income of £623k and spending of £662k, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £339k to £623k (+83%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 144%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Street Child United sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 89% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 91st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include St James Trust (£622k), Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity, Hull (£623k) and Al Misbaah Academy (Ama) (£622k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from donations and legacies 58% and charitable activities 41%. Charitable activities took 95% of spending and raising funds 5.2%. Reserves of £253k would cover about 5 months of spending at that rate. It employed 8 people.