GHANA OUTLOOK

Registered charity 1091636 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

ObjectivesTo help relieve poverty and sickness in the deprived areas of Ghana by providing safe water, sanitation, health and hygiene. To enhance education of young people by provision of materials and equipment to support the education systemTo further the economic development of people by targeted interventions and programs.

Objects

TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND SICKNESS AND ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF PEOPLE LIVING IN GHANA BY THE PROVISION OF FUNDS AND EQUIPMENT. TO EDUCATE YOUNG PEOPLE LIVING IN GHANA BY THE PROVISION OF FUNDS AND EQUIPMENT. TO EDUCATE YOUNG PEOPLE, LIVING IN THE AREA OF SOUTH AND WEST YORKSHIRE. THROUGH THEIR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY OFFERING THE YOUNG PEOPLE THE CHANCE TO VISIT GHANA, SO TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL CAPACITIES, THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY IMPROVE.

Area of benefit: GHANA AND SOUTH AND WEST YORKSHIRE

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Barnsley, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£28k

Latest spending

£27k

Registered

2002

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves held were £400, which meets the charity's stated policy target of £400 sufficient to cover administration costs. The charity reported total income of £27,940 and total expenditure of £26,905 for the year, resulting in a net surplus. The trustees note that the charity's work is dependent on partnerships with local NGOs, but uncertainties are minimized through regular reviews.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: none

“We are fortunate to have several individuals that maintain regular donations.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Going concern: noted by the trustees or auditor

“The trustees manage the Charity, but its work is entirely dependent on its longstanding partnerships with local, trusted, dedicated Ghanaian NGOs. Uncertainties are minimized by regularly reviewing their operations capabilities; support is offered if needed and appropriate.”

Per its FY2025 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.

Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

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 31/03/2025

Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

Volunteers: 7

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

Volunteers: 7
Grant-making is its main activity

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 31/03/2021 (received 02/02/2022, 2 days after the 31/01/2022 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 fundraising profile: JustGiving — Ghana Outlook (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

Carol Parry
Derek Housley
Grahame Mitchell · trustee of 1 other charity
KEVIN MICHAEL KELLY
RICHARD GALLIFORD
Robert MacDougall

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

Operates in: Ghana

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£28k	£27k
31/03/2024	£23k	£22k
31/03/2023	£33k	£34k
31/03/2022	£20k	£17k
31/03/2021	£41k	£44k

Common questions

Is GHANA OUTLOOK financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves held were £400, which meets the charity's stated policy target of £400 sufficient to cover administration costs. The charity reported total income of £27,940 and total expenditure of £26,905 for the year, resulting in a net surplus. The trustees note that the charity's work is dependent on partnerships with local NGOs, but uncertainties are minimized through regular reviews. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds GHANA OUTLOOK?

Funders whose own accounts filings name GHANA OUTLOOK as a grant recipient include W F SOUTHALL TRUST, O.F.M. CAPUCHIN GB CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
W F SOUTHALL TRUST	FY2023	£3k	Environmental Action and Sustainability
O.F.M. CAPUCHIN GB CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£1k	Donations

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	20/05/2004	£1k	There is no project name available for this record

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
MISS E F RATHBONE CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£3k
THE ROGER RAYMOND CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£128k
THE T U U T CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£60k
THE BARBARA WARD CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION	1	£24k
THE BEATRICE GILMORE CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£20k
TEACHERS GROUP EDUCATIONAL TRUST	1	£18k
DALGLEISH TRUST	1	£15k
LONDON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY COMMERCIAL EDUCATION TRUST	1	£14k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ASHANTI DEVELOPMENT.

ASHANTI DEVELOPMENT income £187k
GHANA UNION HARLOW income £38k
ACTION THROUGH ENTERPRISE income £513k
URAFIKI (LINKING WITH COMMUNITIES IN AFRICA) income £209k
GHANA SCHOOL AID income £29k
GHANA NURSES ASSOCIATION (UK) income £175k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
GHANA OUTLOOK	£28k	—	0	unclear	—	noted
ASHANTI DEVELOPMENT FY2025	£187k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
GHANA UNION HARLOW FY2026	£38k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
ACTION THROUGH ENTERPRISE FY2025	£513k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
URAFIKI (LINKING WITH COMMUNITIES IN AFRICA) FY2025	£209k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
GHANA SCHOOL AID FY2025	£29k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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