DIGITAL PIPELINE

Registered charity 1118674 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COMPUTERS 4 AFRICA, COMPUTERS 4 CHARITY - INCORPORATING COMPUTERS 4 AFRICA, Computers 4 Charity, Caring for Climate and Community, Computers 4 Good - Caring for Climate and Community

Digital Pipeline helps alleviate poverty by providing access to computer equipment for the poorest schools and projects in the UK and the developing world. As a consequence we also promote conservation, protection & improvement of the environment through the re-use of ICT equipment.

Objects

The Charity’s objects (the “Objects”) are for the benefit of the public to:a) advance the education of the public by providing access to information and communications technology, computers and other hardware and software (“ICT”), and by providing related ICT education, training materials, maintenance and support to those who have need of such equipment;b) promote the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment by facilitating the re-use of ICT equipment;c) relieve poverty by providing access to ICT, ICT education and training materials and ICT maintenance and support to the poor, the disadvantaged and those in need;d) advance such other purposes as are recognised as being exclusively charitable in accordance with English law from time to time as the trustees in their absolute discretion shall think fit.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS.

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 · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a total deficit of £62,987 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in unrestricted reserves falling into a deficit of £83,949. Despite this financial loss, the trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future on a going concern basis.

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
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06035936 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• HERZIG, Stephen — director, appointed 19/01/2026on trustee list
• LAWRENCE, Mark Andrew — director, appointed 01/01/2022on trustee list
• RICH, Kenneth Harold — director, appointed 01/01/2022on trustee list
• THOMPSON, Stephen Roy — director, appointed 01/01/2022on 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 ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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: 4.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/07/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Kenneth Rich · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mark Lawrence · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stephen Herzig
• Stephen Thompson · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Scotland · 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 Digital Poverty Alliance.

• Digital Poverty Alliance income £1.8m
• THE PIPA FOUNDATION income £120k
• CHARITY DIGITAL TRUST income £2.7m
• DIGITAL ADVANTAGE income £1.3m
• POWER 2 CONNECT income £117k
• DIGILEARNING FOUNDATION income £116k

Side by side with its peers

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