Overall GiG Score: 16 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 10
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Fundraising costs high: -3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +10

AFRIKIDS LIMITED 

Overview

AfriKids is dedicated to improving the lives of vulnerable children in northern Ghana. Through community-led initiatives, they provide education, healthcare, and child protection services that empower local communities to create sustainable change, ensuring brighter futures for children and promoting long-term development in the region.

They are the delivery agency of choice for partnering international aid groups such as Plan International and UNICEF in Ghana, and are continuing to develop strategies in project work that see impact growing substantially moving forward.

Source: Giving is Great

Mission:

To ensure that every child in Ghana is afforded their rights and help communities improve life for their most vulnerable and disadvantaged children
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Financial issues to consider:

  • Fundraising costs are high relative to funds raised
Established: 13 years

www.afrikids.org

info@afrikids.org

02072690740

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/12/22£1,824£1,871£-47£493£1,034£774590
31/12/21£1,565£1,526£39£376£1,080£1,021890
31/12/20£1,680£1,551£129£389£1,041£6825.3100
31/12/19£1,900£1,827£73£475£912£6594.382
31/12/18£1,896£1,849£47£420£839£6063.965
31/12/17£1,907£2,007£-100£425£792£3912.370
31/12/16£2,815£2,194£621£356£892£6203.470
31/12/15£1,728£1,740£-12£388£271£1130.8110
31/12/14£1,588£1,545£44£271£283£1190.9130
31/12/13£1,852£1,870£-18£128£510£1761.1120

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 27.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 26.4%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 5%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 4%
Liabilities/Income: 3%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 75%
Reserves/Spending: 5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 7 months
Quick Ratio: 21
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Overseas Aid/Famine Relief
AFRIKIDS IS A GRASS ROOTS CHILD RIGHTS NON GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATION WORKING WITH FAMILIES IN NORTHERN GHANA TO IMPROVE LIFE FOR THEIR MOST VULNERABLE AND DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN. OUR PHILOSOPHY IS TO:-LISTEN TO WHAT A COMMUNITY KNOWS IT NEEDS,-EMPOWER THEM TO MAKE THE NECESSARY CHANGES THEMSELVES,-ENSURE ABSOLUTE SUSTAINABILITY
Who works here?
  • 9 employees
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
Where it operates
  • Camden, Ghana,

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Gower Street£255,075
The EQ Foundation£75,000
Charles Hayward Foundation£15,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The EQ Foundation - Grant to Afrikids
£50,000 06/09/2023
Leave No Child Behind project in Ghana
The EQ Foundation - Grant to Afrikids
£25,000 06/03/2023
Big Give Champion Pledge
Gower Street - Tree planting programme
£5,075 01/03/2023
Project funding
Gower Street - Education Programme
£250,000 20/07/2022
No Child Left Behind’ programme
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Afrikids, UK
£15,000 22/12/2021
Business training and microfinance for 250 women in Northern Ghana
Pears Foundation - Grant to AfriKids
£100,000 06/03/2019
28
Core funding
Pears Foundation - Grant to AfriKids
£50,000 27/06/2018
12
Core funding
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to AfriKids
£90,000 16/06/2017
GAS partnership, providing medical education in northern Ghana
Pears Foundation - Grant to AfriKids
£117,000 17/05/2017
18
Pears Mother and Babies Centre
Pears Foundation - Grant to AfriKids
£50,000 13/07/2016
1
Fund a Family Business
Comic Relief - Foundations for Life; an inclusive approach to the first years of education in northern Ghana
£743,299 25/11/2015
36
Despite advances in school enrolment in Ghana, economic and social disadvantage in its northern regions has meant that they lag significantly behind, especially in crucial early year’s education ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 33-60
  • KARIM DHALLA Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Investment Professional
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 24/03/2011, number: 1141028
  • Registered at Companies House on 17/02/2011, number: 07534096
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
10 returns made; all on time
Main office

AfriKids, Unit G05
The Record Hall
16-16A Baldwin's Gardens
London
EC1N 7RJ

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND RELIEVE THE NEED, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS OF PERSONS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY CHILDREN, LIVING IN THE UPPER EASTERN REGION OF GHANA, OR SUCH OTHER REGIONS AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT AND ANYTHING INCIDENTAL OR CONDUCIVE TO ANY OF THOSE OBJECTS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase

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