VANA TRUST

Registered charity 1105276 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Aiming to relieve poverty, sickness and distress and advance good health and education for children and young people in Southern Africa and the UK.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH PRIMARILY BUT EXCLUSIVELY OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AND PEOPLE IN THE UK AND AFRICA, IN PARTICULAR THOSE LIVING IN ZAMBIA, ZIMBABWE, SOUTH AFRICA, BOTSWANA, NAMIBIA, SUDAN, TANZANIA AND KENYA IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: UK AND AFRICA, IN PARTICULAR THOSE LIVING IN ZAMBIA, ZIMBABWE, SOUTH AFRICA, BOTSWANA, NAMIBIA, SUDAN, TANZANIA AND KENYA

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Animals · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with net reserves of £727, comprising an unrestricted deficit of £8,403 and restricted reserves of £9,130. Per the trustees' report, the charity remained financially stable due to prudent budgeting and strong donor support, despite having unrestricted funds in deficit.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Vana Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Savio Fernandeschair
• Ali Monjack
• Blessings Kaseke
• Ekundayo Akande
• Nyasha Gwatidzo

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire · South Africa · Zimbabwe

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with VALAN SOCIAL WELFARE TRUST.

• VALAN SOCIAL WELFARE TRUST income £759k
• GARDEN ROUTE CHILDREN'S TRUST income £113k
• The Trust Foundation income £3.0m
• THE VENIK TRUST income £938k
• ANGEL WELFARE AND EDUCATION TRUST income £1.2m
• RAINBOW TRUST AFRICA income £174k

Side by side with its peers

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