TERTIARY EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP TRUST FOR AFRICA

Registered charity 1124600 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of Financial Aid for tertiary education of bright but needy scholars in Ghana, Malawi, Uganda and Tanzania via a network of local Trusts.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF NEEDY STUDENT FROM AFRICA BY FUNDING SCHOLARSHIPS FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDY AT PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES AND POLYTECHNICS IN AFRICAN COUNTRIES.

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: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Guildford, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds decreased to £965,055 from £1,003,509 in the prior year due to a decline in the value of quoted investments. The charity maintains a reserves policy of covering five years of grant expenditure, and current unrestricted reserves of £79,703 are below the implied target derived from the total reserves figure. The trustees note that fundraising has been challenging and have reduced scholarship awards to match long-term income forecasts.

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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

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 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2024 (received 17/05/2025, 17 days after the 30/04/2025 due date); year ending 30/06/2023 (received 10/05/2024, 10 days after the 30/04/2024 due date); year ending 30/06/2022 (received 14/05/2023, 14 days after the 30/04/2023 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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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (31/12/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr NICHOLAS BROWNchair
• DAVID TRAVERS
• Dr Favour Mandanji NYIKOSA
• Dr Franziska Meinck
• Dr KEITH LLOYD
• Dr Natasha Said ALI
• Emmanuel Maluwi Abalo
• JOANNA MARGUERITE TRAVERS
• KIM ERIK LLOYD

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

Operates in: Ghana · Malawi · Tanzania · Uganda

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SWANLAND EDUCATION AFRICA TRUST.

• SWANLAND EDUCATION AFRICA TRUST income £103k
• RAFIKI THABO FOUNDATION income £383k
• RURAL AFRICA CHILDRENS EDUCATION TRUST income £76k
• EDUCATION EAST AFRICA income £54k
• AFRICAN CHILDREN'S FUND LTD income £239k
• AFRICA EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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