CHRISTIAN COLOSSUS MAINTAINS CHILD FOCUS

This UK branch of a huge international charity aims to reduce poverty and injustice by working with children, families and communities across the world. With a Christian ethos, it offers long-term development programmes, child sponsorship and disaster relief. The annual report is informative and clear, but to catch up with its more transparent peers it could tell us more about the charity's targets for the future.

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QUALITY OF REPORTING What is this?	73%
How much info does the charity want to share? This score, taken from our search for 43 key points in the annual report, gives the answer. Top mark is 100%. Anything over 70% is a good effort.
SIZE OF CHARITY... What is this?	Extra large
We only profile the largest charities in England & Wales, and our sizes are relative to the largest and smallest among them. So where we describe a charity as 'Small', it is still much larger than the national average.
HIGHEST SALARY What is this?	£80k to £99k
Taken from the vague bandings given in annual reports; note that 'Under £60k' could be £9k or £59k. Nonetheless the number of bars should roughly correlate with the 'Size of charity' bars.
RESERVES WOULD LAST... What is this?	2 months
If income dried up, how long could work continue? 3-12 months is normal. Less may be precarious. 12+ months may be over-cautious (or if very high, may represent the value of the charity's property).
ETHICAL INVESTMENT POLICY What is this?	Unknown
We asked the charity if it has an ethical investment policy. If yes, it gets an angel. Those with no policy but which don't invest in tobacco/arms get a halo. Those without investments, or who didn't respond, appear neutral. Those with stakes in arms/tobacco get a fallen angel.

But don't take our word for it...

• The charity's website [1]
• GuideStar summary [2]
• Charity Commission link to annual report [3]

World Vision is a Christian relief, development and advocacy organisation dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice. It has more than 22,000 staff - 97% nationals of the country they work in enabling it to be ‘first on the scene’ in a humanitarian crisis. Long-term development programmes help more than 100 million people. World Vision works long-term with local communities to receive training, education and resources needed to become self-sufficient.