VILLAGE AID

Registered charity 1067322 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as VILLAGE AID LTD

Village Aid empowers disadvantaged people in rural West Africa to improve their own lives.Working through community based partners, participatory learning is used to identify development priorities. Skills and resources are provided to turn these into a reality, programmes include Education, Securing Livelihoods and Access to Justice.

Objects

A) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AMONG PERSONS INHABITING COUNTRIES IN THE THIRD WORLD IN PARTICULAR BY PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PRACTICESB) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ISSUES EFFECTING THE DEVELOPING WORLD

Area of benefit: THIRD WORLD

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity raised £31,927 in income and incurred £31,927 in charitable expenditure, resulting in a net expenditure of zero for the year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £11,954, which is slightly above the targeted policy level of £10,000. The trustees confirm there is no material uncertainty regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, supported by funding commitments from the parent group.

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 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.

• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03446625

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• MEAGHER, Geoff — director, appointed 05/06/2024on trustee list
• OWENS, Dervla — director, appointed 05/06/2024on trustee list
• ROBINSON, Mary Benita — director, appointed 23/02/2024on trustee list
• AKPAN, Augustine — secretary, appointed 05/06/2024

Official officers record.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/10/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Catherine Fitzgibbon · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dervla Owens · trustee of 2 other charities
• Geoff Meagher · trustee of 2 other charities
• Mary Robinson · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Cameroon · Derbyshire · Ghana · Nottinghamshire · Senegal · Sheffield City · Staffordshire · The Gambia

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).