WAMBA COMMUNITY TRUST

Registered charity 1138173 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Wamba Community Trusts main activity is to provide education for children and young people of Wamba, a remote town in Samburu, North Kenya. Education is so vital in making a significant difference to the quality of their lives, promoting equality, enabling them to understand their basic human rights, and disrupting the poverty cycle.

Objects

1) TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF YOUNG PEOPLE LIVING IN THE WAMBA DISTRICT OF KENYA, BY:(A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION;(B) THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY; AND(C) THE PROMOTION AND PRESERVATION OF GOOD HEALTH.2) TO ADVANCE IN LIFE AND RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH THE PROVISIONOF EDUCATION, SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS."

Area of benefit: KENYA

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: Herefordshire, County of, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£26k
Latest spending
£34k
Registered
2010
Accounts read
FY2026

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity had unrestricted reserves of £49,357.72 at the end of the financial year, which exceeds its total income of £25,965.67. The trustees report that the charity has no paid staff and relies on volunteer efforts and donations to fund its projects.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2026

  • Volunteers: 4

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

  • Volunteers: 6

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

  • Volunteers: 6

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Kenya

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2026£26k£34k
31/03/2025£39k£25k
31/03/2024£42k£19k
31/03/2023£25k£36k
31/03/2022£23k£19k

Common questions

Is WAMBA COMMUNITY TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2026 accounts: The accounts state that the charity had unrestricted reserves of £49,357.72 at the end of the financial year, which exceeds its total income of £25,965.67. The trustees report that the charity has no paid staff and relies on volunteer efforts and donations to fund its projects. Its FY2026 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds WAMBA COMMUNITY TRUST?

Funders whose own accounts filings name WAMBA COMMUNITY TRUST as a grant recipient include THE TULA TRUST LIMITED, THE ASHWORTH CHARITABLE TRUST, THE CARMELA & RONNIE PIGNATELLI FOUNDATION, THE OAKDALE TRUST, DIDYMUS.

Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with OPPORTUNITY THROUGH EDUCATION.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
WAMBA COMMUNITY TRUST£26k—0unclear—no doubt
OPPORTUNITY THROUGH EDUCATION FY2025£56k—0unclear—no doubt
SAMBURU TRUST UK FY2025£36k—0unclear—no doubt
THE NAYAMBA TRUST FY2025£49k—0within—no doubt
WYNAUD TRUST FY2025£46k—0unclear—no doubt
EDUCATION EAST AFRICA FY2025£54k£18,5000unclear—no doubt

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