See Ability First International

Registered charity 1117305 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NEEMA CRAFTS WORKSHOP, Neema Crafts

To relieve the financial hardship or other charitable needs of people with disabilities in Tanzania and East Africa to enable them to obtain training in appropriate skills by such means as the trustees determine from time to time, providing they are recognised as charitable according to the charitable law of England and Wales. Formerly Neema Crafts Workshop UK

Objects

To relieve the financial hardship or other charitable needs of people with disabilities in Tanzania and East Africa to enable them to obtain training in appropriate skills by such means as the trustees determine from time to time providing they are recognised as charitable according to the charitable law of England and Wales.

Area of benefit: IRINGA, 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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Huntingdonshire, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£90k

Latest spending

£82k

Registered

2006

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds held in bank accounts were £17,141 at the end of 2025, which is above the trustee-agreed reserve target of £10,000. The trustees report no uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: £10,000 (reserves figure: £17k)

“At the meeting of the trustees on 7th February 2017 it was agreed £10,000 should be held in reserve.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 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.

Financial reserves policy and procedures

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

Volunteers: 7
Grant-making is its main activity

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Neema Crafts Workshop (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

CHARLES MICHAEL BARRY AUSTINchair · trustee of 1 other charity
DEBORAH MARY AUSTIN BA ATCL
MARTIN DAVIES BA HONS
Malcolm Crawford · trustee of 3 other charities
SUSANNA ELIZABETH DAVIES MPHIL

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

Operates in: Tanzania

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£90k	£82k
31/12/2024	£32k	£78k
31/12/2023	£58k	£61k
31/12/2022	£13k	£47k
31/12/2021	£17k	£64k

Common questions

Is See Ability First International financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted funds held in bank accounts were £17,141 at the end of 2025, which is above the trustee-agreed reserve target of £10,000. The trustees report no uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds See Ability First International?

Funders whose own accounts filings name See Ability First International as a grant recipient include HOPE CHURCH HARROGATE.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
HOPE CHURCH HARROGATE	FY2025	£880
HOPE CHURCH HARROGATE	FY2024	amount not stated

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION	1	£135k
MARR-MUNNING TRUST	1	£134k
THE BARTLETT FOUNDATION	1	£120k
SIR HALLEY STEWART TRUST	1	£120k
THE COLES-MEDLOCK FOUNDATION	1	£60k
ALLAN AND NESTA FERGUSON CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT	1	£50k
LAUREUS SPORT FOR GOOD FOUNDATION	1	£43k
THE ALICE ELLEN COOPER-DEAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£25k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HANDS AT WORK IN AFRICA UK.

HANDS AT WORK IN AFRICA UK income £364k
OPPORTUNITY THROUGH EDUCATION income £56k
FREE 2 BE SPECIAL income £46k
Afro-Asia Welfare Trust income £175k
MEDEWELL INTERNATIONAL income £253k
Able Child Africa income £939k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
See Ability First International	£90k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
HANDS AT WORK IN AFRICA UK FY2025	£364k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
OPPORTUNITY THROUGH EDUCATION FY2025	£56k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
FREE 2 BE SPECIAL FY2025	£46k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
Afro-Asia Welfare Trust FY2025	£175k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
MEDEWELL INTERNATIONAL FY2025	£253k	—	0	above	—	no doubt

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