AFRICA RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Registered charity 1118470 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q4689590 · Wikipedia

EDUCATION AND RESEARCH ON AFRICAN AFFAIRS

Objects

3.1 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN THE UK, AFRICA AND ELSEWHERE IN SUBJECTS OF GOOD GOVERNANCE, HEALTH, GENDER ISSUES, TRADE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, INTERNATIONAL AID, HUMAN WELFARE AND POVERTY RELIEF RELATING TO COUNTRIES AND SOCIETI0ES IN AFRICA AND TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT AFRICA GENERALLY AND THE CHALLENGES IT FACES; AND 3.2 TO PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO THE ABOVE SUBJECT AREAS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND TO DISSEMINATE THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH. THE TRUSTEES MUST USE THE INCOME AND MAY USE THE CAPITAL OF THE CHARITY IN PROMOTING THE OBJECTS..

Area of benefit: IN THE UK, AFRICA AND ELSEWHERE.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £118,202 at the end of the financial year, having received £100,000 in donations. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 20/02/2024, 20 days after the 31/01/2024 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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• JEREMY MICHAEL OWEN EVANS
• Louise Piper

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH ON BANKING AND THE ECONOMY.

• ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH ON BANKING AND THE ECONOMY income £53k
• ACTION IN AFRICA income £63k
• TREND IN AFRICA income £34k
• AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT income £28k
• INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN INSTITUTE income £182k
• ANGLICAN MISSIONERS OF AFRICA DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION TRUST income £37k

Side by side with its peers

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