AFRIKA TIKKUN UK

Registered charity 1101556 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MAAFRIKA TIKKUN UK, TIKKUN UK

Afrika Tikkun UK raises funds to support the work of Afrika Tikkun NPC, an award winning child development charity in South Africa providing community based education and health care programmes for underprivileged children in the townships. The charity has been through a period of significant growth over the last five years and now reaches over 17,000 beneficiaries.

Objects

TO MAKE GRANTS FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT, IN PARTICULAR FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF HEALTH, AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS OF THE INHABITANTS OF SOUTH AFRICA IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY SUPPORTING THE WORK OF TIKKUN A CHARITABLE COMPANY INCORPORATED IN SOUTH AFRICA.

Area of benefit: FOR THE INHABITANTS OF SOUTH 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 · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £330,106 at year-end, which the trustees confirmed met their policy objective of covering non-grant expenditure for at least six months. The charity reported a net expenditure of £194,393 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £524,499 in the prior period. The independent auditors issued an unqualified opinion, confirming the financial statements give a true and fair view and that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Grant Harrod Lerman Davis LLP. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

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 31/12/2025 (received 03/11/2026, 3 days after the 31/10/2026 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 — Afrika Tikkun UK (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Marc Lubner — Acting Group CEO (source)
• Marc Lubner — Executive Deputy Chairman (source)
• Leonie Van Tonder — Chief Operations Officer (Acting) (source)
• Kevin Handelsman — Group Head: Legal Risk & Compliance (source)
• Ian Greenspan — Group Head, IT & Systems (source)
• Anel Retief — Head of Fundraising (source)
• Dr. Nellie Zembe — Head of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (source)
• Zimasa Jiri — People Manager (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 5.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Hamish Warren Sinclairchair
• Eldon Beinart
• GARY LUBNER · trustee of 2 other charities
• Kay de Gier-Formanek
• LESLIE BERGMAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nitzan Olsha

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

Operates in: South Africa · Surrey

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with RISE AFRICA UK.

• RISE AFRICA UK income £96k
• Able Child Africa income £939k
• THE AFRICA TRUST income £1.5m
• ACE AFRICA (UK) income £508k
• SAFE CHILD AFRICA income £74k
• AFRICAN CHILDREN'S FUND LTD income £239k

Side by side with its peers

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