Finance Score: 1

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 4

Reasonable growth: +1
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +4

Overall GiG Score: 11

AFRICAN CHILDREN'S FUND LTD

We are currently working in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. In each country our activities are slightly different but have the common aim of enabling every child to gain access to primary education. We seek to identify the issues stopping a child going to school and then with local partners adopt an appropriate remedy or remedies to overcome these issues.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers recently
There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
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:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

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
31/03/23		£326	£316	£11	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	60
31/03/22		£288	£261	£27	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	80
31/03/21		£231	£215	£16	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	100
31/03/20		£180	£172	£8	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	80
31/03/19		£184	£185	£-1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	60
31/03/18		£211	£189	£22	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£205	£201	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£209	£215	£-6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£204	£205	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£192	£196	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£218	£207	£11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£207	£198	£9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11	*	£171	£167	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10	*	£177	£158	£19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09?	*	£101	£104	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	*	£16	£23	£-7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 18 years

www.africanchildrensfund.org

info@africanchildrensfund.org

01865820570

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Overseas Aid/Famine Relief

GiG Classification

Grant-making foundations

How it operates

Makes Grants to Organisations
Provides human resources

Where it operates

Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe,

Who it helps

Children/Young People

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
60 volunteers

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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
EA Foundation - Library hub for primary school in Zimbabwe
£22,200	06/12/2022	Project to construct a library hub and equip it with books and computers at Rowa Primary School in the Mutare Rural District in Zimbabwe.
The Fore - RAFT COVID-19 response grant to African Children's Fund
£5,000	03/06/2020 36	Grant from The Fore's RAFT Immediate Response Fund to African Children's Fund, as part of The Fore's COVID-19 Response programme.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards domestic science training equipment for School in Thika, Kenya
£500	06/08/2015	Towards domestic science training equipment for St Patrick’s Special School in Thika, Kenya.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 40-75

STEVE BRIMLEY Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Retired

CAROLINE JENNIFER FARRINGTON Appointed: 2007, Occupation: Personal Banking Advisor

DEBRA BEAZLEY Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Theatre Sister

DEREK BIRD Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Retired

HENRY CHITSENGA Appointed: 2006, Occupation: Teacher

RICHARD WARREN KENYON Appointed: 2006, Occupation: Pr Consultant

SANDRA NORTH Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Head Teacher

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 16/06/2006, number: 1114699
Registered at Companies House on 14/02/2006, number: 05708741

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investment
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

16 returns made; AR11: 1 days late, AR10: 135 days late, AR09: 108 days late, AR07: 113 days late,

Main office

SILVER BIRCH HOUSE
COW LANE
LONGWORTH
ABINGDON
OX13 5EJ

Objectives

3 A. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS OF CHILDREN IN AFRICA, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY ORPHANS, STREET CHILDREN, CHILD MOTHERS AND WIDOWS. THOSE WITH HIV/AIDS AND THEIR FAMILIES BY PROVIDING CULTURALLY APPROPRIATE CARE AND SUPPORT SERVICES.B. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF THE PUBLIC IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY PEOPLE FROM SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA IN THE UK AND OVERSEAS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UK AND OVERSEAS

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