The ITSA Digital Trust

Registered charity 1146157 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as IT SCHOOLS AFRICA, ITSA

THE CHARITY RUNS ITS PROGRAMME UNDER ITS MAXIM OF TRANSFORMING LIVES THROUGH ACCESS TO E-LEARNING BY PROVIDING COMPUTERS AND DIGITAL SKILLS TO SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES IN AFRICA AND THE UK.

Objects

(A) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN AND THE WIDER PUBLIC IN THE SUBJECT OF THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN THE DEVELOPING COMMUNITIES OF THE WORLD AND IN PARTICULAR ON THE CONTINENT OF AFRICA AND(B) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE, UNEMPLOYED PERSONS AND THOSE SEEKING RE-TRAINING IN THE SUBJECT OFINFORMATION TECHNOLOGY.

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

Causes: Education/training · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cheltenham, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £141,521, while the charity reported a bank overdraft of £31,306 and reliance on trustee-associated business support. The trustees consider the current level of accumulated reserves and funding streams to be adequate to support the charity's principal activities.

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 handling
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/05/2023 (received 03/04/2024, 3 days after the 31/03/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: ITSA EDUCATION LIMITED Companies House 06521535
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07611398 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — ITSA Digital Trust (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.

• BATES, Andrew Charles — director, appointed 06/06/2024on trustee list
• ASHLEY, Simon John — director, appointed 04/06/2024on trustee list
• DIAZ, Mark Richard — director, appointed 01/06/2024on trustee list
• FRASER, Emily — director, appointed 27/03/2024on trustee list
• HILL, Joanna Sarah — director, appointed 08/02/2016on trustee list
• RATCLIFFE, Michael Richardson — director, appointed 21/04/2011on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Michael Richardson Ratcliffechair
• Andrew Charles Bates
• Emily Fraser
• Joanna Sarah Hill · trustee of 2 other charities
• Mark Richard Diaz
• Simon John Ashley

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Cardiff · Gloucestershire · Hampshire · Kenya · Malawi · Staffordshire · Worcestershire · Zambia · Zimbabwe

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHARITY DIGITAL TRUST.

• CHARITY DIGITAL TRUST income £2.7m
• COMPUTERAID INTERNATIONAL income £2.2m
• BOOKS TO AFRICA INTERNATIONAL income £414k
• THE CYBER TRUST income £27k
• ACTS 435 income £1.2m
• Digital Poverty Alliance income £1.8m

Side by side with its peers

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