ANNO'S AFRICA

Registered charity 1131645 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · filing overdue (register status)

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.

Objects

THE DIRECTORS SHALL HOLD THE TRUST FUND AND ITS INCOME UPON TRUST TO APPLY THEM FOR THE FOLLOWING OBJECTS ("THE OBJECTS") PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN AFRICA, NAMELY:-TO ADVANCE IN LIFE AND RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE (WHO REQUIREBY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES) THROUGH: ATHE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL ARTISTIC AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES PROVIDED IN THEINTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE, DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE; B) PROVIDINGSUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS MATURE INDEPENDENT AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS; C) THROUGH ADVANCING EDUCATION. ( 3 ) TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT: BYPREVENTING THEM FROM 'BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSEYOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY.

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.

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Registered contact address: Gwynedd, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

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

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

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2021 (received 03/11/2022, 3 days after the 31/10/2022 due date).

1 further annual return is past its due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

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.

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

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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 AFRICAN CHILDREN'S FUND LTD.

• AFRICAN CHILDREN'S FUND LTD income £239k
• EAST AFRICA CHILDREN'S PROJECT income £91k
• Change a Child's Life income £80k
• ALL OUR CHILDREN income £45k
• AWAKEN LOVE FOR AFRICA income £297k
• OUT OF AFRICA income £89k

Side by side with its peers

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