THE GAMBIAN PENCIL PROJECT

Registered charity 1088420 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FRIENDS OF FAJI -KUNDA NURSERY SCHOOL, ROOTS NURSERY SCHOOL

Fundraising to provide funds to advance education for the children in The Gambia to relieve poverty by the provision of financial assistance: to parents to help them pay towards advancing the education of their children and to provide food assistance in local communities.Assist in providing fresh water to Gambian communities.

Objects

(A) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION BY ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF A NURSERY SCHOOL, AND ADVANCING THE EDUCATION OF THE CHILDREN ATTENDING THE NURSERY SCHOOL BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR EDUCATION NOT NORMALLY PROVIDED BY THE LOCAL EDUCATION AUTHORITY. (B) TO RELIEVE POVERTY BY THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO PARENTS WHO ARE UNABLE TO AFFORD EDUCATION FOR THEIR CHILDREN, TO HELP THEM PAY TOWARDS ADVANCING THE EDUCATION OF THEIR CHILDREN.

Area of benefit: FAJI-KUNDA, THE GAMBIA

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the minutes of a meeting held on 14/12/25 approved the accounts for the year ending 31/08/25. The document notes that the charity's assets were transferred to the Pencil Project Foundation, a Gambian charity, and that the Roots school is now administered by this entity. There is no financial data provided in the text to assess reserves, income, or expenditure.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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.

• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• BUBACARR YARBO
• JANET NORA TEATHER
• KATHERINE ANN YARBO

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

Operates in: The Gambia

Income and spending

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