Help Change Lives

Registered charity 1184471 · since 2019helpchangelives.org.uk·India, International, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia·Updated 29 October 2026

Key takeaways

If your work matches its stated themes of education, family support, food and hygiene, period poverty, vocational skills, street children or differently abled children, it fits well, and most of its direct work is in Kenya.
Neither the annual report nor the register gives a grants figure or grant range that could be read, so a realistic request size cannot be worked out, and any first ask should stay modest until the charity says what it would consider.
No application process is published in the annual report, its register entry or its website, so start with a short message to the contact shown, and describe how you could work with the charity, since it says it works through partnerships with trusted charities and individuals.
Its register entry records no grants to institutions for the most recent year, so do not plan your income around a quick result.

Overview

Help Change Lives is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1184471).

Help Change Lives is a registered charity whose purpose is the prevention or relief of poverty anywhere in the world, by providing grants, items and services to individuals in need and to charities and other organisations working on poverty. Its programmes include Educational Support, the Kenya Families Programme, Tackling Period Poverty, Child Feeding Programmes, Empowerment Programmes, Permaculture Training and Small Business Support. At the end of its latest reported financial year it was supporting 1,338 Kenyan students in secondary and junior secondary school, and it helped another 38 students with shopping or partial fees.

What they fund

Priority Areas

Help Change Lives aims to prevent or relieve poverty, especially among children. It works directly with underprivileged children and families in Kenya, providing education and vocational skills, reusable sanitary pads, food, water, clothing, shelter, health aids, income-generating opportunities and counselling. Its family support combines practical essentials with education, training, medical help and small-business or farming support, with the aim of helping families become independent. The charity also supports projects in several countries through partnerships with trusted charities and individuals. Its stated work includes support for street children and differently abled children, food and hygiene assistance, school feeding and books for schools. It seeks to work on the ground and multiply the impact of its resources through partnerships.

Themes

Education
Period poverty
Family support
Food and hygiene
Vocational skills
Street children
Disability support

Geographic Focus

Priority: Anywhere in the world; Kenya; India; Uganda; Tanzania; Liberia; Zambia; Malawi.

How to apply

No application process is published in the charity's annual report, its register entry or its website. The contact shown is for getting in touch.

Application success factors

What the charity says:

The charity works with trusted charities and individuals as partners to increase the scale and impact of its work.

Where they fund

Where it says it funds

India
Kenya
Liberia
Malawi
Tanzania
Uganda
Zambia
International

Similar funders

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Five years of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 31 March 2021	£81,814	£83,403	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2021
year to 31 March 2022	£196,949	£183,411	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2022
year to 31 March 2023	£365,448	£336,575	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2023
year to 31 March 2024	£389,514	£413,176	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2024
year to 31 March 2025	£600,167	£587,597	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2025

— No grants figure for that year.

Figures from the charity’s filed accounts and its register entry. The document icon links to the charity’s entry on the Charity Commission register, where its filed accounts can be found.