AFRICAN FOUNDATION FOR DEVELOPMENT AFFORD

Registered charity 1104682 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AFFORD

Enterprise Support & Job CreationDiaspora & DevelopmentRemittance & Development FinanceSports & Enterprise Development

Objects

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND IN PARTICULAR FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO ARE AFRICAN OR OF AFRICAN DESCENT BY:-(A) PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE-TIME ACTIVITIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE; (B) RELIEVING POVERTY SICKNESS AND DISTRESS; AND(C) ADVANCING EDUCATION

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE AFRICA AND WORLDWIDE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Tower Hamlets, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £66,832 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £170,792 to £103,960. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £9,306, which is significantly below the stated policy target of three to six months of expenditure (£110,000–£220,000). The trustees acknowledge the deficit on unrestricted funds and have implemented a recovery plan involving tight cost controls and increased income generation to address the shortfall.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by CKRD Accountants & Registered Auditors. 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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 31/03/2022 (received 28/03/2023, 56 days after the 31/01/2023 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 04772972

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Global Giving — “Donate Global Giving” (source page)

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.

• DARAMY, Adeyemi Olusegun Abiose — director, appointed 23/06/2014on trustee list
• NJOKU, Ndidi — director, appointed 23/06/2014on trustee list
• EWUOLA, Olayinka — director, appointed 24/01/2007on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~0.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (57% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• NDIDI NJOKUchair
• ADEYEMI OLUSEGUN DARAMY · trustee of 1 other charity
• OLAYINKA EWUOLA

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

Operates in: Benin · Cameroon · Ethiopia · Ghana · Guinea · Kenya · Lesotho · Nigeria · Rwanda · Senegal · Sierra Leone · Somalia

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT.

• AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT income £28k
• AFRICA SERVICES INTERNATIONAL income £770k
• AFRICAN CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH income £183k
• AFRICAN DIASPORA FOUNDATION income £31k
• AFRICAN MISSION income £34k
• THE AFRICA CENTRE LIMITED income £643k

Side by side with its peers

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