UBUNTU PATHWAYS

Registered charity 1103749 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FRIENDS OF UBUNTU EDUCATION FUND, UK

Ubuntu Education Fund, assists orphaned and vulnerable children and their families affected by HIV/AIDS, poverty and abuse in the townships of Port Elizabeth, South Africa to access higher education and employment.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £257,674 at year-end, a decrease from £389,288 in the prior year, following a net expenditure of £171,614. The charity reported total income of £997,598 against total expenditure of £1,169,212, resulting in a deficit for the period. The trustees confirmed 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 Goldwins Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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: 2.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW ROLFEchair
• Andrew Jarvis
• Anne Fass
• Blair Victor Jacobson
• Colin Andrew Wilkie Cowie
• Conrad van Loggerenberg
• DANIEL OSORIO
• DEBORAH SHAINFELD
• Dr FRANK LIPMAN
• JACOB LIEF
• Louise Celeste Bennetts
• Lwanda Zingitwa
• MALIZOLE GWAXULA
• NICOLA DRAGO
• PAULO EAPEN
• Professor Zukiswa Zingela
• RUSH MCCLOY
• STEPHANIE GOLDMAN
• Unathi Jonas
• WILLIAM HENRY VOGE
• ZIYANDA NOZIPHO NTSHONA

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

Operates in: South Africa · Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

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 SOS AFRICA.

• SOS AFRICA income £992k
• AFRIKA TIKKUN UK income £2.5m
• SWANLAND EDUCATION AFRICA TRUST income £103k
• THE CECILY EASTWOOD ZAMBIAN AIDS ORPHANS APPEAL income £230k
• WATOTO CHILD CARE MINISTRIES income £1.4m
• AFRICAN CHILDREN'S FUND LTD income £283k

Side by side with its peers

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