OUT OF AFRICA

Registered charity 1082316 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7111509 · also known as OUT OF AFRIKA

Provide education and basic needs for disadvantaged children through sponsorship. Empower children and the youth (mostly girls) through education and skills training with the aim of lifting from poverty to become self reliant. Collect education materials Promote health issues and sustainable development.Mobilize and assist the Kenyan community in England and Wales for community development

Objects

TO RELIEVE POVERTY, PRESERVE HEALTH, AND ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY THE PROVISION OF BOOKS AND EQUIPMENT FOR LEARNING.

Area of benefit: KENYA, EAST 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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bracknell Forest, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£89k
Latest spending
£94k
Registered
2000
Accounts read
FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity does not hold reserves and reports a net receipt of £2,414 for the period. The independent examiner confirmed that proper accounting records were kept and the accounts comply with the Act. The charity relies on donations and grants to fund its charitable activities in Kenya.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy
“The charity does not hold reserves” — page 3
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/10/2025

  • Volunteers: 12

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/10/2024

  • Volunteers: 10

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/10/2023

  • Volunteers: 5

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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 31/10/2025 (received 09/11/2026, 70 days after the 31/08/2026 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.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Kenya · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/10/2025£89k£94k
31/10/2024£92k£89k
31/10/2023£58k£57k
31/10/2022£44k£44k
31/10/2021£43k£43k

Common questions

Is OUT OF AFRICA financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the charity does not hold reserves and reports a net receipt of £2,414 for the period. The independent examiner confirmed that proper accounting records were kept and the accounts comply with the Act. The charity relies on donations and grants to fund its charitable activities in Kenya. Its FY2024 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds OUT OF AFRICA?

Funders whose own accounts filings name OUT OF AFRICA as a grant recipient include GILCHRIST EDUCATIONAL TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
GILCHRIST EDUCATIONAL TRUSTFY2023£1k

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund01/10/2003£3k"The Group Will Hold A Series Of ' Hands On' Workshops In Local Schools Celebrating African Culture, Including Music And Dance, Storytelling,"

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 Change a Child's Life.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
OUT OF AFRICA£89k—0below—no doubt
Change a Child's Life FY2025£80k—0unclear—no doubt
URAFIKI (LINKING WITH COMMUNITIES IN AFRICA) FY2025£209k——unclear—no doubt
EAST AFRICA CHILDREN'S PROJECT FY2025£91k—0above—no doubt
ACTION IN AFRICA FY2025£63k—0unclear—no doubt
RAISING FUTURES KENYA FY2025£193k—0within—no doubt

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