Overall GiG Score: 10 ?
Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 3
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +3

ABLE CHILD AFRICA 

Able Child Africa works toward a world in which no child with a disability is left behind, bringing together a network of organisations that protect, educate and amplify the voices of children and young people with disabilities. We work across Africa, breaking down barriers to inclusion so that children with disabilities are able to thrive.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from a grant maker recently
  • Spending has increased 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 and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
Established: 39 years

www.ablechildafrica.org

info@ablechildafrica.org.uk

02077336006

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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
31/03/23£1,035£909£126£160£571£226390
31/03/22£689£738£-49£125£445£1993.280
31/03/21£957£910£48£83£494£3114.190
31/03/20£987£775£212£89£579£2253.583
31/03/19£793£773£20£92£366£550.983
31/03/18£690£594£97£72£346£791.660
31/03/17£618£611£7£111£250£140.370
31/03/16£493£469£24£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£370£381£-11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£482£560£-79£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£497£707£-210£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£944£441£504£54£570£491.330
31/03/11£331£322£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10*£279£373£-94£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£295£445£-150£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£358£170£187£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£248£512£-264£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£425£470£-45£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£579£491£89£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£530£529£1£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 15.8%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 17.6%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 10%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 3%
Liabilities/Income: 2%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 40%
Reserves/Spending: 3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 7 months
Quick Ratio: 28.9
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • Overseas Aid/Famine Relief
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 9 employees
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People With Disabilities
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides other finance
Where it operates
  • Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

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
Comic Relief - Ready Steady Go: Supporting the early childhood development of children with disabilities in Kenya.
£299,973 04/09/2019
48
A significant proportion of children with disabilities are not accessing pre-primary education in Kenya, despite it being critical in laying the foundation for their development, inclusion, and ....more
Comic Relief - Take All My Friends To School’: Increasing the access, quantity and quality of inclusive education
£494,850 28/09/2016
48
This project will work with schools, teachers, government staff, children and communities to develop inclusive early childhood education for children with disabilities. Working across 8 primary ....more
Comic Relief - Sports for Inclusion: Changing the Game for Disabled Children in Kenya
£181,569 27/01/2016
36
Most disabled children in Kenya lack opportunities to participate in education, sport and play. Whilst the policy environment in Kenya is supportive of the inclusion of disabled children in accessing ....more
Comic Relief - Promoting Inclusive Education for Disabled Children in Uganda Using a 'Child-to-Child' Approach
£830,967 25/11/2015
60
Up to 98% of disabled children in Africa are out of school; this project aims to address this imbalance through high quality inclusive education for disabled children, with directed attention to ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 9/11 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 32-63
  • CATHERINE CARTER Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Head Of Humanitarian Child Safeguarding
  • MIIRO MICHAEL Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Country Representative, Dhf
  • MITUL SHAH Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Senior Consultant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 14/05/1985, number: 326859
  • Registered at Companies House on 06/11/1984, number: 01861434
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment 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
20 returns made; AR10: 3 days late,
Main office

34 Ponton Road
Nine Elms
LONDON
SW11 7BA

Objectives

TO RELIEVE CHARITABLE NEED, PROMOTE HEALTH, ADVANCE EDUCATION AND PROMOTE THE SOCIAL INTEGRATION OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, WITH A FOCUS ON (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) PROMOTING SUCH DISABLED CHILDREN ACHIEVING THEIR HUMAN, SOCIAL, CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC RIGHTS (AS SET OUT IN THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN (UNCRC), UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS (UDHR) AND SUBSEQUENT UNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATION AND IN REGIONAL CODES OF HUMAN RIGHTS WHICH INCORPORATE THE RIGHTS CONTAINED IN THE UNCRC, THE UDHR AND THOSE SUBSEQUENT CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS) BY ANY MEANS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION CHOOSE AND IN PARTICULAR BY RAISING AWARENESS AS TO THE NEEDS OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES AND ADVOCACY AS TO HOW THOSE NEEDS CAN BEST BE MET.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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