THE MESERANI PROJECT

Registered charity 1135670 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Meserani Project is a unique home-grown charity with a primary focus on providing secondary, further and higher education for young people in an area of Tanzania where such opportunities are not accessible to them due to poverty and family circumstances. We are a relatively small-scale project, but we currently support 142 young people through secondary, further and higher education.

Objects

* TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF PUPILS IN IDENTIFIED AREAS OF TANZANIA AND KENYA BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES AND RESOURCES NOT CURRENTLY BEING PROVIDED BY THE LOCAL EDUCATION AUTHORITIES* TO RELIEVE THE POVERTY AND SUFFERING OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND THEIR FAMILIES IN IDENTIFIED AREAS OF TANZANIA AND KENYA BY THE PROVISION OF RESOURCES THAT THEY COULD NOT OTHERWISE AFFORD, IN ORDER TO ENABLE THEM TO DEVELOP PHYSIOLOGICALLY AND SOCIALLY* TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF PUPILS IN IDENTIFIED AREAS OF TANZANIA AND KENYA BY PROVIDING NECESSARY FEES AND COSTS TO ATTEND SECONDARY SCHOOL, WHICH THEY COULD NOT OTHERWISE AFFORD THROUGH LACK OF MEANS* TO PROVIDE EXCEPTIONAL AND LIFE-CHANGING EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IN IDENTIFIED AREAS OF TANZANIA AND KENYA, WHICH THEY COULD NOT OTHERWISE AFFORD THROUGH LACK OF MEANS

Area of benefit: TANZANIA AND KENYA

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated at a deficit for the year, with expenditure of £127,010.49 against income of £47,262.55, reducing unrestricted reserves from £130,947.38 to £51,199.44. The trustees note that future fundraising is vital to fund ongoing support, as they expect to have no funds available for the school by the end of 2025 apart from specific event proceeds.

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.

• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Meserani Project (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• PETER SWAN M Edchair
• DIANE SWAN M SC
• ELAINE LEE
• LAURA WHALEY
• Lisa Connor
• NICOLA FERGUSON B A HONS
• RUTH DELANY

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

Operates in: Kenya · Middlesbrough · Stockton-on-tees · Tanzania

Income and spending

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