STARFISH MALAWI

Registered charity 1130350 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We are committed to follow the example of Jesus Christ in his compassion for the poor, vulnerable and marginalised by alleviating poverty through education, vocational training and use of sustainable resources. We support a number of projects in Malawi, link schools in Malawi to schools in the UK, sponsor secondary school students in Malawi among other activities.

Objects

(A) TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF BELIEFS APPEARING IN THE SCHEDULE HERETO IN MALAWI AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT;(B) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES BY SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY CONSIDER APPROPRIATE INCLUDING BY MEANS OF ESTABLISHING AND OPERATING ANY EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT OR ESTABLISHMENTS AND BY ESTABLISHING AND SUPPORTING VOCATIONAL TRAINING SCHEMES ESPECIALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY FOR WOMEN THE DISABLED AND THE DISADVANTAGED IN MALAWI OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT;(C) TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND TO PROMOTE AND PRESERVE GOOD HEALTH BY THE PROVISION OF FUNDS, GOODS OR SERVICES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING THROUGH THE PROVISION OF HIV/AIDS AWARENESS PROJECTS AND THE CARE OF ORPHANS IN SUCH PARTS OF MALAWI OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT AND TO FULFIL SUCH OTHER PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND ARE CONNECTED WITH THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE TRUST.

Area of benefit: MALAWI

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £39,488 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £187,238 to £147,750. The trustees confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future on a going concern basis. Total unrestricted funds stood at £39,078 against restricted funds of £108,672.

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 4 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 policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Starfish Malawi (matched by registered charity number).

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/09/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/12/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/01/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/11/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHRISTOPHER KNOTTchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Bridget Jackson
• MARGARET ANNE MITCHELL
• PETER ALAN BELL
• Robert Sharpe
• TERRY PICKFORD · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bexley · Bradford City · Bromley · East Sussex · Kent · Malawi

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with STARFISH ZAMBIA.

• STARFISH ZAMBIA income £33k
• SALTMALAWI TRUST income £31k
• CHANGING STARS, MALAWI income £122k
• MALAWI RELIEF FUND UK income £2.8m
• MALAWI ASSOCIATION FOR CHRISTIAN SUPPORT CIO income £110k
• STARFISH ASIA income £655k

Side by side with its peers

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