ANNO'S AFRICA

Registered charity 1131645 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To offer an alternative arts education to orphans and vulnerable children in Kenya's most deprived city slums. We link up with charity schools and orphanages to provide workshops in Music, Dance (inluding Ballet), Art, Drama and Circus. We now also provide the aforementioned workshops in Malawi in addition to Kenya.

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Latest income

£38k

Latest spending

£34k

Registered

2009

Accounts read

FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is winding down its operations, having closed the Malawi programme and planning to cease its own direct activities in Kenya by December 2025. Per the trustees' report, the charity's total funds decreased from £656 to £4,487 due to a net income of £4,487, but the organization is preparing to hand over remaining programmes to a local partner.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Related-party transaction: Trustees or closely related persons donated £3,061 to the charity.

“During the year, certain Trustees, or those closely related to them, donated, in aggregate, amounts totalling £3,061 (2023: £10,100) to the charity.” — page 14

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Anno's Africa (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).

One Fine Day — “We were joined in 2009 by One Fine Day, a German foundation who are now a sister organizaton and partner us in the Kenyan programmes. They h…” (source page)

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

Register events

Received assets from another charity (12/05/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

ANDREW TIMOTHY BIRKINchair
CATHERINE ANN NYGH
Lia Craig
Susan Frederica Chandler

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

Operates in: Kenya · Malawi

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2024	£38k	£34k
31/12/2023	£45k	£43k
31/12/2022	£37k	£41k
31/12/2021	£30k	£35k
31/12/2020	£33k	£33k

Common questions

Is ANNO'S AFRICA financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the charity is winding down its operations, having closed the Malawi programme and planning to cease its own direct activities in Kenya by December 2025. Per the trustees' report, the charity's total funds decreased from £656 to £4,487 due to a net income of £4,487, but the organization is preparing to hand over remaining programmes to a local partner. Its FY2024 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds ANNO'S AFRICA?

Funders whose own accounts filings name ANNO'S AFRICA as a grant recipient include OLD POSSUM'S PRACTICAL TRUST, JAC TRUST.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
OLD POSSUM'S PRACTICAL TRUST	FY2024	£4k
JAC TRUST	FY2023	£2k	Arts programme for underprivileged children in sub-Saharan Africa