TRANSFORM BURKINA

Registered charity 1136457 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Our Mission Statement:To work in partnership to give every life we touch the opportunity to reach its full potential. We aim to achieve this throughsupporting high quality projects to improve:Education, skills and vocational trainingHealth and nutritionWater supply and sanitationLivelihoods, access to micro credit and savings.

Objects

A TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND TO PROMOTE AND PRESERVE GOOD HEALTH BY THE PROVISION OF GOODS OR SERVICES OF ANY KIND IN SUCH PARTS OF BURKINA FASO OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FITB TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN SUCH PARTS OF BIRKINA FASO OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME 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 CHARITY

Area of benefit: BURKINA FASO OR THE WORLD

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Coventry, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total incoming resources were £199,426 against total expenditure of £166,073, resulting in a net income of £33,353. Closing unrestricted reserves stood at £5,344, which the trustees note represents approximately two months of administration costs, falling short of their stated policy target of three months. The charity operates on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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 5 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07211790

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Transform Burkina (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• THOMSON, Claire Louise — director, appointed 26/04/2025on trustee list
• BUWERT, Stephen — director, appointed 18/05/2019on trustee list
• WALKER, Judith Margaret — director, appointed 14/01/2017on trustee list
• RICHARDS, Colin — director, appointed 01/04/2010on trustee list
• MCCULLAGH, Robert William — director, appointed 01/04/2010on trustee list
• WEST, Jennifer Mary — director, appointed 01/04/2010on trustee list
• WEST, Jennifer Mary — secretary, appointed 05/05/2018

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ROBERT WILLIAM MCCULLAGHchair
• CLAIRE LOUISE THOMSON
• COLIN RICHARDS
• JENNIFER MARY WEST
• Judith Margaret Walker
• Stephen Buwert

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

Operates in: Burkina Faso

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BREAKTHROUGH - TRANSFORMATION TRUST.

• BREAKTHROUGH - TRANSFORMATION TRUST income £3.7m
• AID TO BURKINA income £134k
• TRANSFORMING LIVES income £62k
• TRANSFORM TRAINING LTD income £170k
• IQRA BLACKBURN income £128k
• TRANSFORM DRUG POLICY FOUNDATION income £272k

Side by side with its peers

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