HELP FOR EDUCATION AND LOCAL PROJECTS IN THE GAMBIA

Registered charity 1098642 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HELPING

Building nurseries (8) supplying equipment, furniture and stationery. Sponsor teachers (15) and send them to college for further training. Sponsor 350 children, build toilets, kitchens, provide meals, dig wells so that children may have clean drinking water. We also send out teachers to assist. Have set up an art centre and IT suite at one school.

Objects

1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE GAMBIA.2. TO RELIEVE THE POVERTY OF PEOPLE IN THE GAMBIA.

Area of benefit: THE GAMBIA

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that cash funds at the end of the year were £198,062. The trustees hold approximately £60,000 in a separate account to cover two years of wages for Gambian staff and teachers. No material uncertainties regarding the charity continuing as a going concern were disclosed.

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

What the accounts disclose

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ROY FRANCIS RICHARDSONchair
• CHRISTOPHER MEEKS
• LISA VICTORIA OSBORNE

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 GIVING OPPORTUNITIES TO ACHIEVE AND LEARN FOR THE GAMBIA.

• GIVING OPPORTUNITIES TO ACHIEVE AND LEARN FOR THE GAMBIA income £75k
• GAMBIA SCHOOL SUPPORT income £157k
• The Gambian Schools Trust income £37k
• SCHOOLGAMBIA income £31k
• HEAL PROJECT income £52k
• SPONSOR A GAMBIAN CHILD income £77k

Side by side with its peers

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