RWANDA ACTION

Registered charity 1124634 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RWANDA AID

Relief of need and suffering through healthcare, education and training, housing and general welfare.

Objects

The objects of the Charity are to relieve poverty in Rwanda, particularly in the Western Province, to advance education and to provide relief in the country to those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability or financial hardship. The Charity aims to achieve this by working with the government and local communities in Rwanda to identify the most pressing challenges and then piloting sustainable initiatives to address those challenges. In particular the Charity promotes effective education, vocational and farm training and enterprise. It also supports inclusivity particularly for those on the margins of society, especially street children and young people living with disability.

Area of benefit: RWANDA

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing resource of £38,855 for the year ended 30 June 2025, reducing its total unrestricted funds to £178,182. The trustees have established a reserves policy requiring undesignated funds to cover between 6 and 9 months of expenditure. Per the trustees' report, there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Rwanda Action (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Booragoon Rotary Club — “Trusts & Foundations Booragoon Rotary Club” (source page)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/06/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Wright
• Deanne Thomas
• Dr John Alan Giles
• EMMA ELIZABETH MESSIAS
• Jane O'Brien
• Patrick Henchoz
• William Gelling OBE

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

Operates in: Rwanda

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TREND IN AFRICA.

• TREND IN AFRICA income £34k
• HOMELESS ACTION income £3.8m
• KNOWLEDGE AND ACTION FOUNDATION income £44k
• RWANDA RESTORED income £59k
• REFUGEE ACTION KINGSTON income £580k
• RWANDESE ABAGIMIGAMBI income £71k

Side by side with its peers

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