FRIENDS OF IBBA GIRLS SCHOOL, SOUTH SUDAN

Registered charity 1146220 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The UK charity supports and funds a school for girls in Ibba, South Sudan. The school opened to its first intake of 40 girls in 2014. Each year about 40 more girls have joined, so that the school is now full with 360 girls in 2023. The school employs 40 people as teachers, matrons, cooks, cleaners, etc. The charity continues to raise funds to finance school buildings and operating costs.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT - 3.1 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) BY PROVIDING FINANCIAL AND OTHER FORMS OF SUPPORT FOR THE BUILDING, ESTABLISHMENT AND RUNNING OF A GIRLS SCHOOL IN IBBA, SOUTH SUDAN TO PROVIDE HIGH QUALITY EDUCATION ROOTED IN CHRISTIAN VALUES; 3.2 TO PROVIDE FUNDING AND SUCH OTHER FORMS OF SUPPORT TO ENABLE ACCESS FOR CHILDREN OF ALL FAITHS (AND NONE) WHATEVER THEIR BACKGROUND, STATUS OR FINANCES; 3.3 TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES SO THAT THE SCHOOL MAY SERVE THE NEEDS NOT ONLY OF IBBA VILLAGE AND IBBA COUNTY BUT WESTERN EQUATORIA STATE AS WELL; AND 3.4 TO FULFIL SUCH OTHER PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND ARE CONNECTED TO THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE CHARITY AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bath and North East Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £189k, increasing total funds to £379,554. The trustees report that unrestricted reserves of approximately £115k are sufficient to meet around four months of unfunded expenditure, which falls within their stated policy of holding three to six months of reserves. The going concern basis is adopted with no material uncertainties identified.

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 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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

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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 10.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/01/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher John Trottchair
• Dame Rosalind Marsden · trustee of 1 other charity
• Eleanor Mary Elizabeth Caine
• Gwen Marie Byrom
• JULIA SANDERS
• John Forde · trustee of 1 other charity
• Justin Nyieer Gordon Muortat
• Kristine Atong Malok
• PROFESSOR JEAN FRASER HARTLEY
• Sarah Harding · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: South Sudan

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Known funders

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