AFRIKIDS LIMITED

Registered charity 1141028 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q132471742

AfriKids is a grass roots child rights non-governmental organisation, working with families in Northern Ghana to improve life for their most vulnerable and disadvantaged children. Our philosophy it to: -Listen to what a community knows it needs.-Empower them to make the necessary changes themselves.-Ensure absolute sustainability

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND RELIEVE THE NEED, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS OF PERSONS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY CHILDREN, LIVING IN THE UPPER EASTERN REGION OF GHANA, OR SUCH OTHER REGIONS AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT AND ANYTHING INCIDENTAL OR CONDUCIVE TO ANY OF THOSE OBJECTS.

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

Causes: Education/training · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Islington, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £34,432 for the year, resulting in total funds decreasing from £730,405 to £695,973. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £642,080, which the trustees consider sufficient to continue operations without material uncertainty.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sterling Partners. 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — AfriKids (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).

• UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office — “UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office” (source page)
• Austin Bailey Foundation — “Austin Bailey Foundation” (source page)
• Coles-Medlock Foundation — “Coles-Medlock Foundation” (source page)
• Educational Opportunity Foundation — “Educational Opportunity Foundation” (source page)
• Hult Business School — “Hult Business School” (source page)
• Medicor Foundation Liechtenstein — “Medicor Foundation Liechtenstein” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 25.2% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/09/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/11/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Avril Kudzi
• Dieudonnee Yakubu Ogede
• Genevieve Anne Easton
• Georgina Fienberg · trustee of 1 other charity
• Karim Dhalla
• Keith Anthony Stone
• Leonora Dowley
• Olivia Anne Jenkins
• Richard Pickard
• Sally Vivyan
• Sandra Scheerer

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

Operates in: Camden · Ghana

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.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Able Child Africa.

• Able Child Africa income £939k
• SAFE CHILD AFRICA income £74k
• AFRUCA - Safeguarding Children income £754k
• AFRICAN CHILDREN'S FUND LTD income £239k
• ACT (AFRICAN CHILD TRUST) income £204k
• BIGKID FOUNDATION income £583k

Side by side with its peers

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