GAMBIA SCHOOL SUPPORT

Registered charity 1176136 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Working with the Ministry of Basic & Secondary Education and local communities, we are helping to improve the quality and quantity of Early Child Development education provision in The Gambia. We assist schools provided they meet agreed standards. Our projects are overseen by an implementing partner staffed by experienced locals. All teachers attend our training program to enhance their skills.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH AND ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF CHILDREN IN BRUFUT, THE GAMBIA, WEST AFRICA, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY HELPING WITH NURSERY SCHOOL PROVISION BY WORKING WITH NURSERY SCHOOLS, THE LOCAL COMMUNITY, LOCAL GOVERNMENT BODIES AND OTHER CHARITIES TO PROVIDE GOOD EDUCATION, SPORTING FACILITIES, HEALTHCARE AND NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS FOR THE CHILDREN.

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £146,546 at the end of the period, which exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of holding a reserve of £100,000. The charity reported a net surplus of £25,461 for the year, funded primarily by diversified donations from trusts, foundations, and individuals.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/07/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Josh Dale-harrischair · trustee of 1 other charity
• EDWARD PETER DALE-HARRIS
• NICK STEVENSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nicola Kelly
• ROBERT JOHN WHITCOMBE
• Timothy Lodge

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

Operates in: The Gambia

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GIVING OPPORTUNITIES TO ACHIEVE AND LEARN FOR THE GAMBIA.

• GIVING OPPORTUNITIES TO ACHIEVE AND LEARN FOR THE GAMBIA income £75k
• The Gambian Schools Trust income £37k
• HELP FOR EDUCATION AND LOCAL PROJECTS IN THE GAMBIA income £132k
• BACE income £48k
• SCHOOLGAMBIA income £31k
• THE SCHOOL CLUB ZAMBIA UK income £79k

Side by side with its peers

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