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.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net income of £166,650 for the year ended 30 September 2025, with total income increasing to £1,167,788. The trustees report that unrestricted reserves of £226,007 are fully aligned with their stated policy target, and they confirm there are no uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

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 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 15.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (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.

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 SEED MADAGASCAR.

• SEED MADAGASCAR income £1.2m
• AFRICA MISSIONS ENGLD income £123k
• MYMALAWI income £212k
• MALARIA CONSORTIUM income £72.2m
• RIPPLE AFRICA income £2.8m
• MALAWI RELIEF FUND UK income £2.9m

Side by side with its peers

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