MAKE EVERY WOMAN COUNT

Registered charity 1144255 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

MEWC provides timely and accurate information, resources and tools to support and strengthen the work of African women's rights advocates and activists; and to promote the participation of African women in all areas of social, political and economic development.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE EQUALITY OF WOMEN WITH MEN, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY AFRICAN WOMEN AND GIRLS, IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DETERMINE. THE ASSOCIATION SHALL BE NON-PARTY IN POLITICS AND NON-SECTARIAN IN RELIGION.THE BENEFIT AREA SHALL BE UK AND AFRICA.

Area of benefit: UK AND AFRICA

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held £49,785 in total funds at the end of 2025, with unrestricted reserves of £54,431 offsetting a restricted fund deficit. The trustees report that total funds are adequate to ensure the organisation can continue to operate as a going concern, citing secured new projects and pending grant applications as grounds for confidence in its financial health.

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
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Make Every Woman Count (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anouka van Eerdewijk
• Catherine Wambui Kiama
• Ester Faith Macheke
• Joy Indekhwa Anangwe
• Melissa Ann Woodward
• Shannon Sutton

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

Operates in: Guinea

Income and spending

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