CAMFED INTERNATIONAL
Registered charity 1029161 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as C A M F E D, CAMBRIDGE FEMALE EDUCATION TRUST · listed website unreachable when last crawled
Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts
The accounts state that CAMFED raised $108.3m and spent $81.6m in 2024, with a clear strategic focus on scaling education support. The trustees report that the organization is in a strong financial position, having secured 80% of the funding required for its 2030 strategy. The document highlights a robust partnership model with governments and a growing network of young women leaders driving the charity's mission.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: A proportion of funding is therefore held in a designated reserve to ensure sufficient funds are available to honour commitments to girls and young women in later years of the plan
“A proportion of funding is therefore held in a designated reserve to ensure sufficient funds are available to honour commitments to girls and young women in later years of the plan”
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP.
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — CAMFED (matched by registered charity number).
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)
Cost of raising funds
£2.8m
Reserves (reported)
£12.5m
Reported reserves equal ~2.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (07/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Trustees
- Anne-Birgitte Albrectsenchair
- Afriyie Oware
- Dr Joan Nyanyuki
- Maidie Arkutu
- Mohammed Reza Essop
- Tara Katharine Camm · trustee of 1 other charity
- Victoria Johnson
- Victoria Sabula
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Australia · Canada · Ghana · Malawi · South Africa · Tanzania · United States · Zambia · Zimbabwe
Income and spending
Common questions
Is CAMFED INTERNATIONAL financially healthy?
The accounts state that CAMFED raised $108.3m and spent $81.6m in 2024, with a clear strategic focus on scaling education support. The trustees report that the organization is in a strong financial position, having secured 80% of the funding required for its 2030 strategy. The document highlights a robust partnership model with governments and a growing network of young women leaders driving the charity's mission. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by Crowe U.K. LLP.
Who funds CAMFED INTERNATIONAL?
Funders whose own accounts filings name CAMFED INTERNATIONAL as a grant recipient include LUCILLE FOUNDATION, THE SCHRODER FOUNDATION, THE GREATER SHARE FOUNDATION, THE TOLKIEN TRUST, MRS WINGFIELD'S CHARITABLE TRUST.
Known funders
Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.
Government & lottery funding
Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).
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 ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS.