ADVANTAGE AFRICA

Registered charity 1092719 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Advantage Africa supports people affected by poverty, disability and HIV to improve their education, health and incomes. Our work in Kenya and Uganda helps people to help themselves and build a better future for their families and communities.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF NEED, POVERTY, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AMONGST PEOPLE IN AFRICA IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DETERMINE, BUT IN PARTICULAR BY SUPPORTING AND WORKING WITH LOCAL PEOPLE TO DEVELOP SUSTAINABLE INITIATIVES WITHIN THEIR OWN REGION WHICH FURTHER THE STATED CHARITABLE PURPOSE

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: 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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Milton Keynes, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that Advantage Africa closed the year with unrestricted reserves of £82,229, which the trustees confirmed were within their stated policy target of three to six months' budgeted unrestricted expenditure. Total income for the year was £359,468, while total expenditure amounted to £387,640, resulting in a net deficit of £28,172. The trustees assessed the charity's financial situation as reasonably strong and concluded that it has adequate resources to continue operating as a going concern for the foreseeable future.

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.

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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04388034

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

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• BROOK, Amanda — director, appointed 23/10/2025on trustee list
• CAMPO MCEVOY, Amy — director, appointed 23/10/2025not on trustee list
• LIPPETT, Andrew Jonathan — director, appointed 23/10/2025on trustee list
• GATHONI, Alice — director, appointed 30/10/2023on trustee list
• DATTANI, Pratima — director, appointed 22/10/2018on trustee list
• SMITH, Mandy — director, appointed 22/10/2018on trustee list
• BETTS, Andrew — secretary, appointed 06/03/2002

Official officers record.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/03/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alice Gathoni
• Amanda Brook
• Amy Campo McEvoy
• Andrew Lippett
• Christopher Chapman
• Mandy Smith
• Pratima Dattani

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

Operates in: Kenya · Uganda

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Able Child Africa.

• Able Child Africa income £939k
• THE AFRICA TRUST income £1.5m
• ALONGSIDE AFRICA income £99k
• HOPE FOR LIFE KATANGA income £59k
• ACTION IN AFRICA income £63k
• BUILD AFRICA income £540k

Side by side with its peers

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