MONEY FOR MADAGASCAR

Registered charity 1001420 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Our mission is to enable Malagasy people to reduce poverty and protect the environment through sustainable, community-led initiatives. Our projects tackle many of the key issues facing Madagascar today: extreme poverty, poor health and education, food insecurity, the destruction of natural forests and the loss of bio-diversity.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE INHABITANTS OF MADAGASCAR AND ELSEWHERE AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY IN MADAGASCAR AND ELSEWHERE AND FOR THE PURPOSES OF PROMOTING THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN THE UNITED KINGDOM CONCERNING MADAGASCAR AND IN PARTICULAR ECOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY, POVERTY AND ECONOMY.

Area of benefit: MADAGASCAR AND ELSEWHERE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Lancaster, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net income of £166,650 for the year, with total income increasing to £1,167,788. Unrestricted reserves stood at £226,007, which the trustees confirmed was fully aligned with their policy target of covering 90 days of UK administrative expenses and 365 days of Madagascar support costs. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Godfrey Wilson Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/09/2023 (received 27/08/2024, 28 days after the 30/07/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Money for Madagascar (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Lova Rasoalinoro — CEO (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• DEFRA 'Darwin Initiative' — “Youth for Lemurs Project : Funded by DEFRA’s Darwin Initiative, this project enables young people to lead lemur conservation in eastern Mada…” (source page)
• Critical Eco-Systems Partnership Fund (CEPF) — “Critical Eco-Systems Partnership Fund (CEPF) https://www.cepf.net/” (source page)
• The French Embassy PISCAA fund — “The French Embassy PISCAA fund is supporting women to lead conservation & build resilient livelihoods.” (source page)
• Coles Medlock Foundation — “Coles Medlock Foundation” (source page)
• The Waterloo Foundation — “The Waterloo Foundation waterloofoundation.org.uk” (source page)
• Mary's Meals — “Mary's Meals https://www.marysmeals.org/” (source page)
• ADSUM Foundation — “ADSUM Foundation supports our Education for Life programme. adsumfoundation.org” (source page)
• The Aeonian Foundation — “The Aeonian Foundation” (source page)
• British & Foreign Schools Society — “British & Foreign Schools Society Educational Opportunities for all bfss.org.uk” (source page)
• Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts — “Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts www.sfct.org.uk” (source page)
• WACadbury Charitable Trust — “WACadbury Charitable Trust” (source page)
• IQFA Irish Quaker Faith in Action — “IQFA Irish Quaker Faith in Action supported our prison rehabilitation programme. quakers-in-ireland.ie” (source page)
• Union of Welsh Independents — “MfM started supporting this Children’s Centre through a three-year grant from the Union of Welsh Independents.” (source page)
• UWI — “A grant from UWI enabled MfM to support SAF in setting up an ultrasound service at the SAF medical unit in the centre of Antananarivo.” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 15.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/03/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Pottinger
• EIFION GRIFFITHS
• Jeremy Ralph Langford
• LADY BERNADETTE KING
• Micheline Ravolonarisoa
• SIR TIMOTHY KING QC
• Simon Kirby
• THERESA HAINE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Vaonarivo Brown

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Madagascar

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TASC MADAGASCAR.

• TASC MADAGASCAR income £31k
• SEED MADAGASCAR income £1.2m
• THE MA'ARIF FOUNDATION UK income £883k
• MOMBASA MISSION income £83k
• THE MAKHAD TRUST income £73k
• THE MARKAWASI FOUNDATION income £87k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.