COMPUTERAID INTERNATIONAL

Registered charity 1069256 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5157407 · Wikipedia · also known as COMPUTER AID, COMPUTER AID INTERNATIONAL

Computer Aid International works with education, health and other non-profit organisations in developing countries to improve the effectiveness of their development interventions through IT. By providing low-cost equipment and software, and working with partners to provide training and support, we aim to reduce poverty through cost-effective, practical and locally relevant IT solutions.

Objects

THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED TO PROMOTE ALL OR ANY PURPOSES WHICH ARE DEEMED TO BE CHARITABLE BY LAW, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY FACILITATING THE RECYCLING AND DISTRIBUTION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EQUIPMENT AND TRAINING TO VARIOUS PARTS OF THE WORLD WHERE IT IS NEEDED, AND CAN BE USED, TO BENEFIT THE COMMUNITY.

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

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 · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · 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 the charity ended the year with a surplus on general funds of £444,914 and total unrestricted reserves of £444,914. Per the trustees' report, the charity aims to hold unrestricted funds sufficient to meet 12 weeks of core expenditure, a target which it exceeded given its current unrestricted reserves position.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Arnold Hill & Co LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £60,001 - £70,000 (FY2024) to £60,000 - £70,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Computer Aid International (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dominic McVey — Trustee (source)
• Diogo Van Londen — Trustee (source)
• Lola Aworanti-Ekugo — Trustee (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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~11.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% 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: 6.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Diogo Manuel Pires van Londen
• Shashi Nikhil Hirdaramani
• Titilola Aworanti-Ekugo
• dominic McVey · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Burkina Faso · Chile · Colombia · Congo (Democratic Republic) · Ethiopia · Germany · Greece · Kenya · Malawi · Namibia · Nigeria · Poland

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 INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S TRUST.

• INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S TRUST income £117k
• CHARITY DIGITAL TRUST income £2.7m
• PCREFURB income £202k
• PARTNER AID INTERNATIONAL (UK) income £33k
• COMPUTERS FOR CHARITIES income £17k
• IAC-UK income £804k

Side by side with its peers

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