SHAREAFRICA

Registered charity 1094198 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To assist fellow Christians and others living in impoverished communities in Sub Saharan Africa by providing facilities, funds and services through SHARE's in-country organisations. The primary aim is to support initiatives that will reduce poverty through sustained economic growth.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO SUPPORT CHRISTIANS LIVING IN IMPOVERISHED COMMUNITIES IN AFRICA BY CHANNELLING GOODS, FUNDS AND SERVICES THROUGH SHARE'S APPROVED NETWORK OF CHRISTIAN ASSEMBLIES AND MISSIONS. THE PRIMARY FOCUS IS TO BELIEVERS, WHILE ENDEAVOURING TO ASSIST OTHER COMMUNITY MEMBERS ("THE OBJECTS") AT THE DISCRETION OF SHARE.

Area of benefit: OVERSEAS.

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Mid Suffolk, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £422,229 exceed the charity's stated policy target of maintaining 3 to 6 months' expenditure. The charity reported a net income increase to £143,268 and total income of £598,753, with no employees and no trustee remuneration paid during the year.

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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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 04554704

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.

• CHERRIE, Philip — director, appointed 29/12/2020on trustee list
• MORROW, Edward James — director, appointed 01/06/2020on trustee list
• ROGERS, Alastair Stanley — director, appointed 13/06/2018on trustee list
• RICHARDSON, Paul — director, appointed 07/07/2006on trustee list
• CURRIE, Leonard David — director, appointed 07/10/2002on trustee list
• MCPHAIL, James Winston — director, appointed 07/10/2002on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/10/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~10.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/10/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (03/01/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JAMES WINSTON MCPHAILchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alastair Stanley Rogers
• Edward James Morrow
• LEONARD DAVID CURRIE
• PAUL RICHARDSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Philip Cherrie

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

Operates in: Malawi · Zambia

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 SHARE CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP.

• SHARE CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP income £96k
• THE SAHARA CARE CHARITABLE TRUST income £7k
• RURAL EXTENSION WITH AFRICA'S POOR income £43k
• UNSEEN PURSUIT income £149k
• SUPPORTING HOMELESS, ASSISTING REFUGEES EVERYWHERE income £131k
• SHARED INTEREST FOUNDATION income £683k

Side by side with its peers

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