AFRICA ENTERPRISE TRUST

Registered charity 1075638 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as A.E.T.

Runs family based children's homes for double orphaned children at risk of living on the street; provides grants and other educational support for orphaned and vulnerable children; runs computer skills training courses; makes microcredit loans to individuals and small businesses.

Objects

1. TO RELIEVE THOSE IN AFRICA WHO ARE POOR, IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS OR WHO ARE AGED OR SICK. 2. TO PROVIDE EDUCATION (INCLUDING VOCATIONAL TRAINING) THAT WILL ASSIST IN THE SOCIAL HEALTH EDUCATIONAL ECONOMIC AND SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN AFRICA. 3. TO ADVANCE CHRISTIANITY THROUGHOUT AFRICA 4. TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE OBJECTS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: AFRICA

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's free reserves increased to £6,051, which is above the Trustees' target level of approximately two months' budgeted routine expenditure. The charity reported a net surplus for the year, resulting in an increase in total net assets from £1,601 to £6,051. The Trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Africa Enterprise Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Beauty Kahemba Castle
• DAVID M BROWN
• JANET MARY BARTROP
• Keith Harry Broadhurst · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nathan Paul Jones

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

Operates in: Zambia

Income and spending

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