AFRICA ADVOCACY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1164778 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AAF

1. Sexual &Reproductive Health (Prevention, testing, peer support)2. Violence Against Women & Girls (Specialist counselling, therapeutic arts, mentorship, casework)3. Long Term Conditions (Awareness, health checks, support- CVD, hypertension, diabetes, mental health, kidney health, cancers)4. Training (Community champions, lived experiences, professionals)5. Policy, Advocacy, Research

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE: (A) TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND SICKNESS IN COMMUNITIES EXPERIENCING DISADVANTAGE BOTH IN THE UK AND OVERSEAS (B) TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE HEALTH AND TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF THOSE SUFFERING FROM POOR HEALTH (C) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION BY PROVIDING RESOURCES AND PLATFORMS FOR LEARNING (D) TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE (E) TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF THE ELDERLY AND DISABLED

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£1.4m
Latest spending
£1.4m
Registered
2015
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £804 for the year, with total incoming resources of £1,414,743 and resources expended of £1,415,547. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves were £589,691, which the trustees consider sufficient to maintain operations for approximately three months in the event of a significant drop in funding.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three months' expenditure (held: £590k)
“For this year they decided that the current level of reserve should be maintained at least at a level equivalent to approximately three months' expenditure.” — page 12
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Ashford Louis. 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Total income
£1.4m
Total spending
£1.4m
Reserves (reported)
£287k
Employees
13

Reported reserves equal ~2.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Austria · Belgium · Cyprus · Denmark · France · Germany · Greece · Ireland · Italy · Kenya · Luxembourg · Netherlands

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£1.4m£1.4m
31/03/2024£1.2m£1.2m
31/03/2023£1.3m£1.3m
31/03/2022£1.1m£1.0m
31/03/2021£1.0m£779k

Common questions

Is AFRICA ADVOCACY FOUNDATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £804 for the year, with total incoming resources of £1,414,743 and resources expended of £1,415,547. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves were £589,691, which the trustees consider sufficient to maintain operations for approximately three months in the event of a significant drop in funding. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Ashford Louis.

Who funds AFRICA ADVOCACY FOUNDATION?

Funders whose own accounts filings name AFRICA ADVOCACY FOUNDATION as a grant recipient include DEPTFORD CHALLENGE TRUST LIMITED.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
DEPTFORD CHALLENGE TRUST LIMITEDFY2022£28k

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund31/01/2024£596kHidden Voices
City Bridge Foundation01/07/2022£275kGrant to Africa Advocacy Foundation
City Bridge Foundation08/06/2021£25kGrant to Africa Advocacy Foundation
Barrow Cadbury Trust07/10/2020£50kCOVID-19 - Africa Advocacy Foundation
UK government22/09/2020£90kCoronavirus Community Support Fund
The National Lottery Community Fund02/03/2020£333kUzima Project
City Bridge Foundation26/09/2019£74kGrant to Africa Advocacy Foundation
UK government12/10/2018£75kPrEP & Prejudice
City Bridge Foundation18/03/2016£107kGrant to Africa Advocacy Foundation
The National Lottery Community Fund19/08/2010£10kSenior Buddies Project
The National Lottery Community Fund11/04/2007£190k'Utunzi' Young African Carers Project
The National Lottery Community Fund15/03/2007£10kAfrican Seniors in Touch
The National Lottery Community Fund07/02/2006£19kTransfer of ML/2/010112326
The National Lottery Community Fund13/07/2004£35kReturn to Employment Project

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE AFRICA CENTRE LIMITED.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
AFRICA ADVOCACY FOUNDATION£1.4m——unclear—no doubt
THE AFRICA CENTRE LIMITED FY2025£643k——unclear—material uncertainty
AFRICAN FOUNDATION FOR DEVELOPMENT AFFORD FY2025£386k—0below—no doubt
AFRICA RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FUND FY2025£1.0m——unclear—no doubt
Women's Inclusive Team FY2025£647k—0unclear—no doubt
ADVOCACY FOR ALL FY2025£1.4m——unclear—no doubt

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