DOLEN FFERMIO (FARMING LINK)

Registered charity 1124195 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To help people to become self-supporting and their conditions of life improved in two rural areas of Eastern Uganda. To work with partners in Uganda to provide education and training, develop permaculture techniques, goat-breeding and agro- forestry programmes. To promote awareness in the UK of world food and farming issues.

Objects

1) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISABILITY OF PEOPLE LIVING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES OR ANY OTHER AREA OF BENEFIT IDENTIFIED BY THE TRUSTEES, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING AND SUCH OTHER SERVICES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY BECOME SELF SUPPORTING AND THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED.2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC IN THE UNITED KINGDOM (MAINLY IN MONTGOMERYSHIRE, POWYS AND SHROPSHIRE) IN WORLD FOOD AND FARMING ISSUES.

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £5,950 for the year ended 28 February 2025, with total income of £33,719 and total expenditure of £39,669. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves stood at £3,214, which is below the stated policy target of three months of unrestricted expenditure. The trustees acknowledge the importance of building up unrestricted funds to provide security for project work in Uganda.

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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• LORNA ANNE BROWNchair
• CORDELIA WEEDON
• Dr Benjamin William Jones
• Dr TIMOTHY SMITH
• Gideon Nadiope
• Lena Maren Arnold-Fritsch
• Peter Michael Gunnell
• Rona Dorothy Gunnell

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

Operates in: Powys · Shropshire · Uganda

Income and spending

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