ARCHITECTURE SANS FRONTIERES UK

Registered charity 1123786 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ASF-UK

Raise awareness and increase understanding of global development issues amongst practising architects and built environment professionals in order to have a positive impact on the lives of those who are disadvantaged and vulnerable.Foster change in the culture of architecture, to make it more relevant and meaningful in the context of global development issues

Objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED ARE TO RELIEVE FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND NEED IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY ADVANCING THE EDUCATION OF BUILT ENVIRONMENT STUDENTS PRACTITIONERS AND PROFESSIONALS IN THE FIELD OF GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT BY INTER-ALIA TEACHING THE INCLUSIVE PARTICIPATORY AND EMPOWERING METHODS OF WORKING EFFECTIVELY WITHIN COMMUNITIES TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY AND BUILD COMMUNITY CAPACITY BY IMPROVING THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT.

Area of benefit: 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 · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net expenditure of £12,748 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total unrestricted funds from £23,983 to £11,235. The trustees state that these free reserves remain well above the stated reserves policy target of £5,000. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis, with trustees expressing reasonable expectation of adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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 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
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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 06496707 · 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.

• LEVY, Caren Joy — director, appointed 30/09/2023not on trustee list
• ARCZYNSKI, Jessica Lisa — director, appointed 17/09/2022on trustee list
• AGYEMAN, Constance — director, appointed 10/07/2021on trustee list
• DAWSON, Adam James — director, appointed 10/07/2021on trustee list
• SOLANKY, Prashant Shantilal — director, appointed 10/07/2021on trustee list
• KINNEAR, Melissa — director, appointed 28/09/2019on trustee list
• OBORN, Peter Mill — director, appointed 15/09/2018on trustee list
• KARRUNA, Rubbina — director, appointed 01/06/2013on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Melissa Kinnearchair
• Adam James Dawson
• Constance Agyeman · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jessica Lisa Arczynski
• Peter Oborn
• Prashant Shantilal Solanky
• RUBBINA KARRUNA

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

Operates in: Camden · Sierra Leone · South Africa · Turkey

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).