RIPPLE AFRICA

Registered charity 1103256 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC043082 (OSCR)

We aim to help rural Malawians sustainably manage their natural resources through large scale tree planting, forest conservation and fuel efficient cookstove projects.We relieve poverty and improve food security through community led fisheries management in Lake Malawi and improved agricultural practices.We aim to improve education and healthcare standards near our Malawi base at Mwaya.

Objects

1. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN IN MALAWI AND GREATER AFRICA IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE PROVISION OF SCHOOLS, VOLUNTEER TEACHING ASSISTANTS, EQUIPMENT;2. TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE GOOD HEALTH OF PEOPLE IN MALAWI AND GREATER AFRICA;3. TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT IN MALAWI AND GREATER AFRICA, AND TO PROMOTE BETTER METHODS OF AGRICULTURE AND MANAGEMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES;4. TO RELIEVE POVERTY BY HELPING PEOPLE IN MALAWI AND GREATER AFRICA TO START THEIR OWN SUSTAINABLE BUSINESSES.

Area of benefit: MALAWI AND GREATER 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 · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £2,774,619, resulting in a net income of £711,367 for the year. The charity holds £1,195,401 in free reserves, which the trustees note is falling short of their stated policy target of approximately £1.6m. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Godfrey Wilson Limited. 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
• 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
• Paying staff
• 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
• 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.

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 31/05/2022 (received 02/05/2023, 32 days after the 31/03/2023 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04823686

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.

• RAY, Trevor Duncan — director, appointed 14/07/2021on trustee list
• FURBER, Geoffrey — director, appointed 21/01/2016on trustee list
• KNIGHT, Charles Robert — director, appointed 01/01/2016on trustee list
• MILTON, Toby Alexander — director, appointed 27/01/2013on trustee list
• JACKSON, Gabrielle Lee — director, appointed 22/03/2007on trustee list
• HAIGH, Pamela Edith — secretary, appointed 05/04/2016

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/05/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (55% 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: 8.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• TOBY ALEXANDER MILTONchair
• Charles Robert Harcourt Knight
• GABRIELLE LEE JACKSON
• Geoffrey Furber
• Trevor Duncan Ray

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

Operates in: Malawi

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NETWORK FOR A BETTER WORLD.

• NETWORK FOR A BETTER WORLD income £42k
• MYMALAWI income £212k
• ROWLEY PROJECTS income £58k
• BWENGU PROJECTS MALAWI income £33k
• MALAWI RELIEF FUND UK income £2.8m
• MALAWI COMMUNITY HUBS income £203k

Side by side with its peers

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