LIFE FOR AFRICAN MOTHERS

Registered charity 1140183 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Life For African Mothers has been inactive for 3 months and is in the process of closing down, our remaining funds have been donated to a charity with similar aims to ours, all our trustees are in agreement that we need to close.We are closing due to lack of long term funding, difficulties in managing a service in Africa at arms length, and trustees no longer having the time to continue.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT PRIMARILY THROUGH THE PROVISION OF MEDICINES FOR THE TREATMENT OF PREGNANCY-RELATED CONDITIONS TO REDUCE MATERNAL MORTALITY RATES IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN COUNTRIES. FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF MEDICAL STAFF PRIMARILY IN THE MOST EFFECTIVE USE OF THE MEDICINES SUPPLIED AND BEST PRACTICE CARE DURING CHILD-BIRTH AND PREGNANCY.

Area of benefit: SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN COUNTRIES

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported total unrestricted reserves of £4,452 against a stated policy target of twelve months of expenditure. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties disclosed. The charity is entitled to audit exemption under small company provisions.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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 07474050

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Life For African Mothers (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.

• PYRAH BARNES, Sally Ann — director, appointed 01/01/2025not on trustee list
• AYLOTT, Martin — director, appointed 01/09/2019not on trustee list
• LINDSAY, Peter — director, appointed 01/01/2018not on trustee list
• AYLOTT, Martin — secretary, appointed 25/08/2021

Official officers record.

Register events

• Transferred assets to another charity (08/10/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Operates in: Cameroon · Congo (Democratic Republic) · Liberia · Sierra Leone

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 LIFE MINISTRIES TRUST.

• LIFE MINISTRIES TRUST income £170k
• LIFE SUPPORT income £381k
• THE AFRICA TRUST income £1.5m
• Mothers' Union income £3.4m
• Heartbeat Africa income £29k
• ForAfrika income £324k

Side by side with its peers

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