ACT (AFRICAN CHILD TRUST)

Registered charity 1158266 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

African Child Trust (ACT) is working to relieve poverty among disadvantaged children and women-led households in Africa. We are educating children and orphans and empowering widows and women-in-need through training and income generation for sustainable livelihood to support their families. We are engaging UK youths in global citizenship awareness and international development experience.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE POVERTY AND ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE CHILDREN OF WIDOWS IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES IN AFRICA THROUGH SUCH CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE UK, AFRICA AND WORLDWIDE AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT AND GUIDED BY CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES.

Area of benefit: WITHIN THE UK, AFRICA AND WORLDWIDE

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 · 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 reported a net deficit of £19,079 for the year ended 30 April 2025, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £178,758 to £159,679. The trustees maintain a reserves policy requiring between £85,000 and £90,000 to cover operational running costs and educational commitments, while the actual unrestricted reserves stood at £71,313. The charity confirms it has no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• Investment
• 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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/06/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• GWENNETH HOWESchair
• Abiola Olufeyimi
• CHIMA AMIAKA · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr OLUKUNLE ONABOLU
• Jack Beadle
• Nwabueze Amiaka

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

Operates in: Burkina Faso · Congo (Democratic Republic) · Kenya · Malawi · Nigeria · Tanzania · Throughout England And Wales · Uganda · Zambia

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with AFRICAN CHILDREN'S FUND LTD.

• AFRICAN CHILDREN'S FUND LTD income £283k
• AFRICAN CHILDRENS EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £111k
• ACCOMPLISH CHILDREN'S TRUST CIO income £127k
• THE AFRICA TRUST income £1.5m
• THE BETHANY CHILDREN'S TRUST income £143k
• WATOTO CHILD CARE MINISTRIES income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

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