SABRE EDUCATION LIMITED

Registered charity 1105489 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q132471987 · 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.

Objects

1. TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY:I) THE PRESERVATION, CONSERVATION AND THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE PRUDENT USE OF NATURAL RESOURCES;II) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE IN SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES; THE PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE MEANS OF ACHIEVING ECONOMIC GROWTH AND REGENERATION.2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN SUBJECTS RELATED TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE PROTECTION, ENHANCEMENT AND REHABILITATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND TO PROMOTE THE STUDY AND RESEARCH IN SUCH SUBJECTS PROVIDED THAT THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH STUDY ARE DISSEMINATED TO THE PUBLIC AT LARGE.SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT MEANS "DEVELOPMENT THAT MEETS THE NEEDS OF THE PRESENT WITHOUT COMPROMISING THE ABILITY OF FUTURE GENERATIONS TO MEET THEIR OWN NEEDS".3. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY SICKNESS AND DISTRESS, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH IN SUCH WAYS AND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated total income of £1,172,076 against expenditure of £1,007,107, resulting in a net surplus for the year. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £576,202, which exceeds its stated policy target of three months of projected running costs. The auditor 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 Richard Place Dobson Services 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.

• 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
• Trustee expenses 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.

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 4.7 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 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Iain Alfred Walkerchair
• Bridget Konadu Gyamfi
• DAVID MAIN
• Dr Lucy Clare Heady · trustee of 1 other charity
• Enam Afi Eyiah
• Nathan Koblintz
• Solomon Akwasi Addae-Boahene
• Stephen Caleb Opuni
• 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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Charities like this

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

• THE SAVANNAH EDUCATION TRUST income £253k
• EDUCATION SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA income £4.2m
• GAMBIA SCHOOL SUPPORT income £157k
• THE GIRAFFE PROJECT income £329k
• AFRICA EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £1.7m
• GIVING OPPORTUNITIES TO ACHIEVE AND LEARN FOR THE GAMBIA income £75k

Side by side with its peers

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