AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT TRUST

Registered charity 1157822 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ADT

ALTHOUGH ITS MISSION IS TO WORK ALL AFRICA, ADT IS OPERATING IN SOMALIA PARTICULARLY IDP CAMPS IN MOGADISHU AND ITS SUBURBS. THE MAIN ACTIVITIES OF THE ORGANIZATION INCLUDE: - WATER AND SANITATION DEVELOPMENT - PROVISION OF EMERGENCY HEALTH CARE (MOBILE CLINICS)- BASIC EDUCATION - EMERGENCY FOOD DISTRIBUTION- ORPHAN SPONSORSHIP- SEASONAL PROJECT (QURBANI AND RAMADAN)

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net deficit of £13,456 for the year, with total expenditure of £638,815 against incoming resources of £625,359. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves have decreased to £49,994, and the charity maintains funds sufficient to operate as a going concern for at least one year.

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — African Development Trust (ADT) (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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: 17.5% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/01/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALI AHMED WARDEREchair
• AHMED BARUD · trustee of 3 other charities
• Abdullah Ahmed
• Faiza Hussein

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

Operates in: Ethiopia · Kenya · Somalia

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with AFRICA HEALTHCARE DEVELOPMENT TRUST.

• AFRICA HEALTHCARE DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £114k
• THE AFRICA TRUST income £1.6m
• EAST AFRICA WELFARE AND DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION income £143k
• ACT (AFRICAN CHILD TRUST) income £204k
• THE A123 TRUST income £158k
• THE ADFAL TRUST income £130k

Side by side with its peers

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