ALMA MATER EDUCATION

Registered charity 1159983 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The building and management of rural schools in Ghana and management of organic farms for school feeding and to subsidise the school

Objects

The objects of the CIO are, for the public benefit:a) To advance education, in particular (but not exclusively) by establishing and operating schools in rural Africa, beginning in Ghana, that provide high-quality secondary education designed to enable progression to tertiary education.b) To promote the health and well-being of children and young people, particularly girls, through the provision of pastoral care, safeguarding, empowerment programs, and access to nutritious food and clean energy.c) To relieve poverty by equipping students with the knowledge, skills, and support necessary to improve their long-term economic prospects and contribute to the development of their communities.

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Kensington and Chelsea, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported total reserves of £420,323, but its unrestricted free reserves were only £8,086, representing less than one month of running costs. The trustees are in the process of approving a new reserves policy targeting six months of running costs, equivalent to approximately £103,000. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis 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 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 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Alma Mater Education (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Bielenberg
• Constance Agyeman
• Francis Ahene-Affoh
• John Parkinson
• John Paterson
• Katharina Bielenberg · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robert Mitton

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

Operates in: Ghana

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ALPHA PREPARATORY SCHOOL, LTD.

• ALPHA PREPARATORY SCHOOL, LTD income £1.7m
• MATERNAL AID ASSOCIATION income £236k
• THE ELMA FOUNDATION (UK) income £7.3m
• THE AMAR INTERNATIONAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £1.1m
• The ALMA Foundation income £28k
• THE ALMA GREEN CHARITY CIO income £56k

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