KNOWLEDGE FOR CHANGE

Registered charity 1146911 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as K4C

We aim to improve the standard of healthcare provision in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and the UK through the training of staff and students in both regions. We run undergraduate student exchange programmes between SSA and UK, and also place professional UK volunteers within healthcare facilities in SSA on long and short-term basis in order to provide training and facilitate knowledge exchange.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PRESERVATION OF THE HEALTH OF PATIENTS OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA AND THE UNITED KINGDOM IN PARTICULAR THROUGH CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES IN HEALTHCARE CENTRES THROUGHOUT SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES, SUPPORT SERVICES, EQUIPMENT NOT NORMALLY PROVIDED BY THE STATUTORY AUTHORITIES AND ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES / ACTIVITIES.TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE HEALTH WORKERS OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA AND THE UNITED KINGDOM BY PROMOTING EDUCATION, KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE AND PERSONAL EXPERIENCE.

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £511,059 against total expenditure of £501,823, resulting in a surplus of £9,236. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £187,506, which the trustees describe as providing a high level of sustainability despite cuts to government aid budgets.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2023 (received 09/12/2024, 39 days after the 31/10/2024 due date); year ending 31/12/2022 (received 10/01/2024, 71 days after the 31/10/2023 due date); year ending 31/12/2021 (received 07/11/2022, 7 days after the 31/10/2022 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~4.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (67% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/11/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor Louise Ackerschair
• Allan Ndawula
• Dr Chris Coey
• Dr James Ackers-Johnson
• Dr Melanie Stephens
• Dr Nicola Morrell-Scott
• Dr Robert Ssekitoleko
• Jamie Edward Bettles

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

Operates in: India · Tanzania · Throughout England And Wales · Uganda

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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 EDUCATION SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA.

• EDUCATION SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA income £4.2m
• AIM FOR CHANGE income £51k
• KNOWLEDGE TO ACTION income £67k
• EDUCATION FOR HEALTH income £1.5m
• PARTNERS FOR CHANGE ETHIOPIA income £92k
• SWANLAND EDUCATION AFRICA TRUST income £103k

Side by side with its peers

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