SCHOOLGAMBIA

Registered charity 1096152 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GAMBIA: LINKS IN EDUCATION, GAMBLE BUILDING LINKS IN EDUCATION

Providing links with The Gambia enabling Gambians to improve quality of education through: *Practical teaching skills*Supply teaching materials *Funding*Building (Yalding School Farato) creating:-Environment for children to have best possible education-Benchmark for others to emulate-Place where teachers and others are welcomed to gain ideas & inspiration - impacting Gambian society

Objects

1) TO ENABLE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF COMMUNITIES IN THE GAMBIA AND WEST AFRICA AND SUPPORT THE TRAINING AND GOOD PRACTICE OF THEIR TEACHERS; 2) TO PROVIDE RELIEF FROM POVERTY IN THE GAMBIA AND WEST AFRICA; 3) TO ACHIEVE OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES WHICH HELP AND BENEFIT THE COMMUNITIES OF THE GAMBIA AND WEST AFRICA

Area of benefit: THE GAMBIA AND WEST AFRICA

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted cash funds increased to £108,441 by the end of the period, supported by a net receipt of £10,374. The trustees report that the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education has agreed to take over teacher salaries, relieving the charity of significant recurring expenditure. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention during the examination of the accounts.

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 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/12/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• BRENDA SHARPLES
• DEREK HUDSON
• KAREN ELIZABETH DI MARCO
• PETER MACK
• TONY DI MARCO

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

Operates in: The Gambia

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GAMBIA SCHOOL SUPPORT.

• GAMBIA SCHOOL SUPPORT income £157k
• GIVING OPPORTUNITIES TO ACHIEVE AND LEARN FOR THE GAMBIA income £75k
• HELP FOR EDUCATION AND LOCAL PROJECTS IN THE GAMBIA income £132k
• The Gambian Schools Trust income £37k
• PROJECT GAMBIA TRUST - RIDGEWOOD income £175k
• TEACHER AID income £84k

Side by side with its peers

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