ACE AFRICA (UK)

Registered charity 1111283 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ACE, ACE UK, ACTION IN THE COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENT

Ace Africa (UK) raises funds to support Ace Africa Tanzania & Kenya to work with vulnerable, marginalised people in low resource settings in Tanzania & Kenya. They build resilient inclusive communities. We improve food & economic security, health & education by developing long term sustainable solutions in three programming areas. Child development, Community Health, & Community Livelihoods

Objects

3. CHARITY OBJECTS:THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ("THE OBJECTS") ARE: "TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CHARITIES AND NON GOVERNMENT ORGANISATIONS (NGOS), COMMUNITY BASED ORGANISATIONS, VOLUNTARY BODIES, OTHER ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS AND STATUTORY AUTHORITIES UNDERTAKING CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES THAT WOULD BE RECOGNISED AS SUCH UNDER ENGLISH LAW (INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL AND OTHER SUPPORT AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT) WORKING IN AFRICA IN PARTICULAR WITH THE AIM OF REDUCING THE IMPACT OF HIV/AIDS ON RURAL COMMUNITIES SO THAT SUCH COMMUNITIES, PARENTS, GUARDIANS AND OTHER CARERS HAVE THE CAPACITY, SKILLS AND RESOURCES TO CARE FOR ORPHANS AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN AND TO PROVIDE THEM WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO DEVELOP TO THEIR FULL POTENTIAL SO THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY IMPROVE.

Area of benefit: KENYA AND TANZANIA

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: City of London, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves fell to £19,565, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of four months of unrestricted budgeted expenditure. This shortfall is attributed to prioritizing unrestricted funding for East Africa programs, reduced fundraising capacity, and donor reluctance to fund UK operating costs. Despite this, the trustees maintain that improving reserves remains a priority to promote organizational stability.

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.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

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

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
• 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
• Trustee expenses 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04726183

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — ACE Africa (UK) (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• Comic Relief — “Comic Relief – Testament to our work is a first three-year grant from Comic Relief towards our programmes in Tanzania. This is our fourth mu…” (source page)
• The Egmont Trust — “The Egmont Trust – The Egmont Trust is one of Ace’s longest standing donors and has supported a number of our projects in Kenya and Tanzania…” (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.

• KORN, Einat — director, appointed 26/08/2025on trustee list
• PEREIRA LOURENCO, Duarte Nuno — director, appointed 26/08/2025not on trustee list
• WOOD, Graham — director, appointed 26/08/2025on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (75% 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: 14.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Duarte Nuno Pereira Lourenco
• Einat Korn
• Graham Wood

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

Operates in: Kenya · Tanzania

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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 RISE AFRICA UK.

• RISE AFRICA UK income £96k
• AFRICA'S CHILDREN IN EDUCATION income £47k
• THE AFRICA TRUST income £1.5m
• CHASE AFRICA (COMMUNITY HEALTH AND SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT) income £832k
• ADVANTAGE AFRICA income £359k
• Able Child Africa income £939k

Side by side with its peers

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