PROMOTING EQUALITY IN AFRICAN SCHOOLS

Registered charity 1126550 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PEAS

PEAS founds and manages sustainably financed secondary schools in Africa in response to massive excess demand for affordable secondary education. We also support governments to improve 100s of schools in the countries we work. PEAS schools fund running costs from a mixture of very low fees, income generating projects and government subsidy. As of 2024, we run 36 schools across Uganda and Zambia.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that PEAS closed FY2025 with a surplus, having increased total income by 17% to £11.3m while managing expenditure growth. The trustees report that unrestricted free reserves are at the target level of approximately three months of operating costs, providing sufficient financial resilience to support ongoing operations and strategic growth.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — PEAS - Promoting Equality in African Schools (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Fay Hodza — Chief Programme Officer (source)
• Fay Hodza — Global Senior Director of Programmes (source)
• Elizabeth Amuge — Head of Operations (source)
• Henry Senkasi — Country Director (source)
• David Boateng — Country Programme Manager (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (63% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 3.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Apollo Babone Gabazirachair
• Aissatou Bah
• Alexandra Walker
• Andrew Jurczynski
• Bridget Gyamfi
• James Adams
• Reshma Patel

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

Operates in: Ghana · Uganda · 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 HELPING UGANDA SCHOOLS (HUGS).

• HELPING UGANDA SCHOOLS (HUGS) income £266k
• AFRICAN PROMISE income £39k
• EDUCATION SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA income £4.2m
• AFRICAN CHILDREN'S FUND LTD income £283k
• SOS AFRICA income £992k
• TEACHER AID income £119k

Side by side with its peers

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