AFRINSPIRE

Registered charity 1163774 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Afrinspire supports African development initiatives and poverty reduction through a network of African partner organisations. We engage in women's adult literacy, gender empowerment, transferring technology, water harvesting, sustainable agriculture, education, training and capacity building. Afrinspire supports local community development initiatives at their own pace.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income surplus of £13,369 for the year, with total income of £608,742 and expenditure of £595,373. Free unrestricted reserves increased to £16,555, which is above the stated policy target of £7,500. The trustees confirm the charity remains a going concern based on its committed donor base.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.3 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/12/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• IAN SANDERSONchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• CLARA THOMPSON-HARE
• Charles Ferguson
• Francesca Siobhan O'Hanlon
• GEOFF DING
• PETER LAST
• Richard Ewers

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Uganda · Zambia

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 Inspira (01).

• Inspira (01) income £5.7m
• THE INSPIRE FOOTBALL FOUNDATION income £128k
• AFRICAN FRENCH SPEAKING COMMUNITY SUPPORT income £292k
• AFRICAN FOUNDATION FOR DEVELOPMENT AFFORD income £386k
• SHAREAFRICA income £599k
• INSPIRE SOUTH TYNESIDE income £225k

Side by side with its peers

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