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Registered charity 1113133 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The main areas of charitable activity are the provision of overseas relief through the support of education and community projects, mainly in Zambia. We work with charitable organisations or trusts who can identify potential beneficiaries and oversea and manage funds on our behalf.

Objects

TO PROVIDE RELIEF FROM POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD AND IN PARTICULAR THE CONTINENT OF AFRICA AND IN FURTHERANCE OF THIS OBJECT TO PROVIDE RELIEF BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES OF ALL KINDS, SUPPORT SERVICES AND EQUIPMENT GENERALLY CALCULATED TO REDUCE THE NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS OF SUCH PERSONS AND TO PROMOTE AWARENESS OF POVERTY IN AFRICA AND ELSEWHERE GENERALLY.

Area of benefit: OVERSEAS

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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £24,512 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in net assets of £139,933. The trustees' report notes that fundraising has become increasingly challenging due to rising costs and a competitive landscape, prompting the engagement of a professional grant funding company. Despite the deficit, the charity maintains sufficient cash reserves to continue its activities.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• BARBARA ANN FLETCHER
• Charles Gwillim
• HARSAD CHIKHLIA
• ROBERT JOHN BEARE
• SARAH LOUISE ELTON
• Shelagh Thomson

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

Operates in: Zambia

Income and spending

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