TRANSAID WORLDWIDE SERVICES LIMITED

Registered charity 1072105 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as TRANSAID

Transaid is an international development charity. We identify, champion, implement and share local transport solutions to improve access to basic services and economic opportunity for people in Africa and in developing countries. We partner with local communities, governments, donors and organisations to achieve our aims and facilitate exchange of skills and knowledge gained from our projects.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF GOOD HEALTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, AND THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF THEIR AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP IN THE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES BY THE PROVISION OF EFFICIENT, EFFECTIVE AND SAFE TRANSPORT

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £442,082, which exceeds the trustees' stated minimum policy target of £371,120. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £23,666 for the year, with total income of £1,488,760 against total expenditure of £1,459,793. The trustees confirm that assets are adequate to fulfill obligations and the accounts are prepared on a going concern basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• 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 — Transaid (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Caroline Barber — Chief Executive (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).

• Chelsea Group — “Chelsea Group announced as Supporting Sponsor of Kilimanjaro to Coast Cycle Challenge” (source page)
• Go-Ahead — “The UK’s leading public transport provider, Go-Ahead, has been a Transaid corporate member since 2012. In alignment with its ESG commitments…” (source page)
• Microlise — “Microlise is a key Transaid fundraising partner, hosting us as the beneficiary charity at its annual conference and dinner, organising the T…” (source page)
• BIFA — “Transaid welcomes BIFA as headline sponsor of Kilimanjaro to Coast Cycle Challenge 2026” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (51% 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: 40.3% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Astrid Josephina Hendrika Van Der Burgt
• Dr Olive Chifefe Kobusingye · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gavin Glen Williams
• James Gregory Garnett Keeler
• Joan Nicol Aitken
• John Paul Milner
• Julia Bunting · trustee of 1 other charity
• Phideliah Sichone Mwaba
• Philip William Roe
• Phillip Kamutenga
• Sharnjit Kaur Samra · trustee of 1 other charity
• WILLIAM HOWIE

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

Operates in: Ghana · Kenya · Madagascar · Namibia · Nigeria · Sierra Leone · Tanzania · Uganda · Zambia

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 TRANS4M INTERNATIONAL.

• TRANS4M INTERNATIONAL income £46k
• LANDAID CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED income £5.8m
• ACTIONAID income £47.6m
• TRANSITION NETWORK income £1.0m
• STOP THE TRAFFIK income £1.2m
• WORLD IN NEED INTERNATIONAL income £274k

Side by side with its peers

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