SABRE EDUCATION LIMITED

Registered charity 1105489 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SABRE TRUST, SCHOOLS FOR SCHOOLS, THE SABRE CHARITABLE TRUST

Sabre Education is an education charity working in rural Ghana, to build a brighter future for marginalised and disadvantaged children, with a core focus on the kindergarten sector, where the needs are greatest. Sabre's Brighter Futures Programme provides an innovative and carefully considered response to the challenges of poor learning environments and weak teacher capacity.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a strong financial position, holding unrestricted reserves of £576,202 against a policy target of three months of projected running costs. The charity reported a net income of £164,969 for the year, driven by robust unrestricted donations, and maintained a healthy cash balance of £451,379. The trustees confirmed that the charity has sufficient resources to meet its liabilities as they fall due.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Richard Place Dobson Services Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £60,000 or more (FY2024) to Over £60,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• ‘By schools for schools’: Institute of Teaching winners finally revealed schoolsweek.co.uk · 26/05/2022

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Sabre Education (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Susan Place Everhart — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Edwin Abaka — Chair (source)
• Tony Dogbe — Executive Director, Ghana (source)
• Kwasi Kufuor — Director of finance and administration (source)
• James Ayando — Director of programmes (source)
• Hannah Young — Director of fundraising and communications (source)

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 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 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: 18.6% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Iain Alfred Walkerchair
• Bridget Konadu Gyamfi
• DAVID MAIN
• Dr Lucy Clare Heady · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nathan Koblintz
• Solomon Akwasi Addae-Boahene
• Tom Edward Vandenbosch

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

Operates in: Ghana

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• SWANLAND EDUCATION AFRICA TRUST income £103k
• GAMBIA SCHOOL SUPPORT income £157k
• SABEEL FOUNDATION income £378k
• SEBRIGHT'S EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION income £205k
• SOS AFRICA income £992k
• ERMINE EDUCATION TRUST income £3.1m

Side by side with its peers

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