BRITISH INSTITUTE IN EASTERN AFRICA

Registered charity 1061622 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The BIEA is active in research into the history, archaeology and social sciences of Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya and surrounding countries. It encourages research by individual scholars, works with the universities, museums and antiquities services of the eastern African countries and liaises with international scholarship. It maintains a centre for research and a library at its base in Nairobi.

Objects

2 Objects2.1 The Objects of the Charity are for the public benefit and are specifically restricted to undertaking, promoting and encouraging arts, humanities and social sciences research in and on Africa.

Area of benefit: EASTERN AFRICA

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

Causes: Education/training · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income was £884,396 against expenditure of £846,606, resulting in a net surplus for the year. The charity holds total reserves of £860,277, including a designated fund of £743,092, and the Trustees confirm the organization has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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 31/03/2022 (received 14/03/2023, 42 days after the 31/01/2023 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~11.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (84% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 8.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor Justin Willischair
• Dr Cedric Barnes
• Dr Laura Sophie Basell
• Dr Martha Gayoye
• Professor Ambreena Salim Manji
• Professor Emma Hunter
• Professor GABRIELLE MARY LYNCH
• Professor Sharath Srinivasan
• Professor Wale Adebanwi
• Rt Hon Mr Mark Jonathan Mortlock Simmonds
• Thomas Palmer · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: City Of Westminster · Kenya

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BRITISH INSTITUTE FOR LIBYAN AND NORTHERN AFRICAN STUDIES.

• THE BRITISH INSTITUTE FOR LIBYAN AND NORTHERN AFRICAN STUDIES income £202k
• THE BRITISH INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AT ANKARA income £966k
• THE BRITISH IRISH ASSOCIATION income £188k
• INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN INSTITUTE income £182k
• THE BRITISH ENTOMOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY income £361k
• THE BHIM RUIA FOUNDATION income £836k

Side by side with its peers

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