EDUCAID SIERRA LEONE

Registered charity 1163161 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

EducAid is a UK-registered charity that promotes and provides high quality, holistic education among the underprivileged young people of Sierra Leone. Our vision is a democratic, dignified and globally-engaged Sierra Leone, where poverty is eliminated by educated citizens who are able to develop their personal, social and economic wellbeing.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF PERSONS LIVING AND STUDYING IN SIERRA LEONE.

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

Causes: Education/training · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Hackney, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that EducAid Sierra Leone reported a surplus of £149,544 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total income growing by 41.87% to £1,961,050. The charity maintains unrestricted free reserves of £162,997, which the trustees consider slightly above their stated target level of £155,000. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified regarding its going concern status.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by SCB (Accountants) Ltd. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £70,001 - £80,000 (FY2024) to £70,000 to £80,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• 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

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Educaid Sierra Leone (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (83% 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: 4.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/08/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Yvonne Marie Watkinschair
• Alhaji Abu Komeh
• Alison Iyatunde Lara French
• Dr JAMES BOARDMAN
• Dr Veronique Desnain
• Hannah Jean Lewis
• Jack Howard Robinson
• John Richard Heine

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

Operates in: Sierra Leone

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SIERRA LEONE EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT TRUST.

• SIERRA LEONE EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £86k
• RESEED income £136k
• EDUKAID income £259k
• MELLON EDUCATE (UK) income £529k
• THE DAVID SCHOOL TRUST income £49k
• SEDCU income £68k

Side by side with its peers

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