FRIENDS OF AMASANGO

Registered charity 1116268 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FREINDS OF AMASANGO

To enable the education of extrinsically disabled children through financial support and the facilitation of volunteers.

Objects

AS A CHRISTIAN ORGANISATION TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF PUPILS WHO ARE STREET CHILDREN IN SOUTH AFRICA AND IN PARTICULAR THOSE ATTACHED TO THE AMASANGO CAREER SCHOOLS IN EASTERN CAPE PROVINCE BY FINANCIAL SUPPORT THROUGH BURSARIES OR OTHERWISE AND THROUGH ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES NOT PROVIDED BY THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT AND BY FACILITATING THE AVAILABILITY TO THE AMASANGO CAREER SCHOOLS OF VOLUNTEER TEACHERS AND ASSISTANTS.

Area of benefit: SOUTHE AFRICA, PARTICULARLY AT THE AMASANGO CAREER SCHOOLS IN EASTERN CAPE PROVINCE.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Exeter, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated on a cash basis with total receipts of £53,356 and payments of £55,193, resulting in a deficit for the year. Free reserves, represented by bank balances and cash, decreased from £80,493 to £67,874. The trustees note that further retrospective Gift Aid claims are expected to provide additional income to cover the shortfall.

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.

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.

• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2025 (received 05/05/2026, 5 days after the 30/04/2026 due date); year ending 30/06/2024 (received 10/05/2025, 10 days after the 30/04/2025 due date); year ending 30/06/2023 (received 30/08/2024, 122 days after the 30/04/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Friends of Amasango (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALISON LESLEY EVANS · trustee of 2 other charities
• BRIAN VINCENT WAKEHAM · trustee of 4 other charities
• Bob Hampton
• Christina Kate Thomas · trustee of 1 other charity
• Hannah Patricia Peters
• MARK NEWTON
• Martin Charles Coombs
• REBECCA CLARE PENNELLS
• REV CATHERINE ELIZABETH MIER

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

Operates in: South Africa · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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• FRIENDS OF AMANI TANZANIA income £37k
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