AFRICAN REVIVAL

Registered charity 1108718 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q4689900 · Wikipedia · also known as Rural Schools Africa

Our Vision is an Africa where every child has equal access to quality education. We don't just build infrastructure and provide livelihood and education projects; we empower whole communities - working with pupils, teachers and parents to transform schools into thriving learning environments that build better futures.

Objects

(A) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AMONGST THE POOREST COMMUNITIES IN AFRICA (B) THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL NEED AND SUFFERING AMONG VICTIMS OF NATURAL OR OTHER KINDS OF DISASTER IN THE FORM OF MONEY (OR OTHER MEANS DEEMED SUITABLE) FOR PERSONS, BODIES. ORGANISATIONS AND/OR COUNTRIES AFFECTED [INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF MEDICAL AID].

Area of benefit: AFRICA.

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income surplus of £7,390 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £651,279 against total expenditure of £643,889. The trustees confirm that unrestricted reserves stood at £121,000, which is above their stated policy target of approximately £100,000, and they maintain a going concern basis with adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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 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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — African Revival (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (50% 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: 20.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carl Anthony Shukerchair
• Damian Arnold
• HILARY MARGARET WILSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ian Clark · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mark McIlquham
• Nicola Catherine Corp
• Rev Timothy Ajayi
• Susan Hoysted

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

Operates in: Surrey · Uganda

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with AFRICAN GIFTED FOUNDATION.

• AFRICAN GIFTED FOUNDATION income £1.4m
• AFRICAN CARIBBEAN ACHIEVEMENT PROJECT income £165k
• ACTION IN AFRICA income £63k
• BUILD AFRICA income £540k
• ANGLICAN MISSIONERS OF AFRICA DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION TRUST income £37k
• Afro-Asia Welfare Trust income £175k

Side by side with its peers

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