DISABILITY AFRICA

Registered charity 1172163 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Disability Africa improves outcomes for disabled children through inclusive community development.We raise awareness of the rights and needs of disabled children and deliver services to meet their needs.From 31/03/18 this new CIO adopted all previous activities of the old charity called Disability Africa 1143704 which is now unregistered. Past reports are here www.disability-africa.org

Objects

1) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND PROMOTE AND PROTECT HEALTH AMONG PEOPLE LIVING IN AFRICA, INPARTICULAR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF GRANTS, ITEMSAND SERVICES AND BY SUCH OTHER MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DETERMINE.2) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FORRECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BYREASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCESWITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

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 · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Recreation · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Spelthorne, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity remained in a strong financial position with a significant surplus for the year. Unrestricted reserves stood at £179,530, which is below the newly adopted policy target of twelve months' running costs (£204,139). The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's 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
• 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 — Disability Africa (matched by registered charity number).

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/09/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/06/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew James Nowakchair
• ADAM EDWARDS M.A.
• ADRIAN ABBOTT
• ALARIC LAW
• Michael Steven Carr
• PENNY SOUTHCOTT nee GIBSON FRCPCH
• Susan Haworth-Edwards

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

Operates in: Eswatini · Kenya · The Gambia · Uganda · Zambia

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Able Child Africa.

• Able Child Africa income £939k
• DIMOBI CHILDREN DISABILITY TRUST income £118k
• ADVANTAGE AFRICA income £359k
• DISABILITY STOCKPORT CIO income £1.5m
• KNOW AFRICA CIO income £47k
• THE AFRICA TRUST income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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