THE AFRICAN IMPACT FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1123529 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE HAPPY AFRICA FOUNDATION LIMITED · filing overdue (register status)

The African Impact Foundation works to conserve, protect and improve the natural environment of both the people of Africa and her wildlife. The foundation is dedicated to creating partnerships with donors and charitable organisations to facilitate resources for and to implement social change and environmental sustainability.

Objects

1) TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN AFRICA THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT.2)TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN AFRICA BY:A) THE PRESERVATION, CONSERVATION AND THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE PRUDENT USE OF RESOURCES; ANDB) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE IN SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES.(SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT MEANS "DEVELOPMENT WHICH MEETS THE NEEDS OF THE PRESENT WITHOUT COMPRISING THE ABILITY OF FUTURE GENERATIONS TO MEET THEIR OWN NEEDS".

Area of benefit: AFRICA

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £9,872 for the year ended 31 December 2024, a decrease from the previous year's £23,946. Total unrestricted and restricted funds stood at £57,170 at year-end, which the trustees consider sufficient to maintain reserves equivalent to three to six months of expenditure. However, the trustees explicitly disclosed material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• 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 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2022 (received 21/12/2023, 51 days after the 31/10/2023 due date); year ending 31/12/2021 (received 28/11/2022, 28 days after the 31/10/2022 due date).

1 further annual return is past its due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06453871

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.

• ROWE, Nicola — director, appointed 13/03/2025on trustee list
• SEAMAN, Cathleen Price — director, appointed 26/07/2022on trustee list
• SCOTT, Jacqueline — director, appointed 10/08/2021on trustee list
• SHELDRICK, Robert Leonard George — director, appointed 07/06/2021not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Bob Sheldrick
• Cathleen Price Seaman
• Jacqueline Scott
• Nicola Rowe

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

Operates in: Zambia

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WILD IMPACT FOUNDATION.

• WILD IMPACT FOUNDATION income £604k
• AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION income £894k
• THE AFRICA TRUST income £1.5m
• IMPACT FOUNDATION income £2.2m
• THE AFRICAN NATURAL HISTORY RESEARCH TRUST income £744k
• INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN INSTITUTE income £182k

Side by side with its peers

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