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.

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

Latest income
£2.5m
Latest spending
£3.6m
Registered
2004
Accounts read
FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £1,059,322 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £1,583,821 to £524,499. The trustees confirm that free reserves of £524,499 meet the stated policy objective of covering non-grant expenditure for at least six months. The independent auditors have confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: six months (held: £524k)
“The Charity aims to maintain sufficient reserves to cover non-grant expenditure for at least six months.” — page 5
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: fees payable to TAG Consultancy UK Ltd, a company controlled by the CEO
“During the year, fees totalling £90,078 (2023: £85,953) were payable to TAG Consultancy UK Ltd, a company controlled by the CEO, for services provided to the charity.” — page 22
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Grant Harrod Lerman Davis LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Afrika Tikkun UK (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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 31/12/2024)

Total income
£2.5m
Total spending
£3.6m
Cost of raising funds
£126k
Reserves (reported)
£75k
Employees
1

Reported reserves equal ~0.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: South Africa · Surrey

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2024£2.5m£3.6m
31/12/2023£3.0m£2.7m
31/12/2022£2.6m£2.8m
31/12/2021£2.9m£1.7m
31/12/2020£2.1m£2.3m

Common questions

Is AFRIKA TIKKUN UK financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £1,059,322 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £1,583,821 to £524,499. The trustees confirm that free reserves of £524,499 meet the stated policy objective of covering non-grant expenditure for at least six months. The independent auditors have confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by Grant Harrod Lerman Davis LLP.

Who funds AFRIKA TIKKUN UK?

Funders whose own accounts filings name AFRIKA TIKKUN UK as a grant recipient include THE PETER STEBBINGS MEMORIAL CHARITY, THE WOGEN ANNIVERSARY TRUST.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE PETER STEBBINGS MEMORIAL CHARITYFY2022£8k
THE WOGEN ANNIVERSARY TRUSTFY2022£2k
THE WOGEN ANNIVERSARY TRUSTFY2023£1k

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
AFRIKA TIKKUN UK£2.5m—0above—no doubt
SOS AFRICA FY2026£992k—0above—no doubt
AFRICAN CHILDREN'S FUND LTD FY2025£283k—0below—no doubt
URAFIKI (LINKING WITH COMMUNITIES IN AFRICA) FY2024£244k—0within—no doubt
ACE AFRICA (UK) FY2025£508k——below—no doubt
THE AFRICA TRUST FY2024£1.6m—0above—no doubt

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