UFULU MALAWI LTD

Registered charity 1184782 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as UFULU

Ufulu is a UK charity whose aim is to end period poverty among women and girls in Malawi. We run educational workshops on menstrual hygiene and provide free sanitary products, namely reusable menstrual cups. We educate young girls on menstrual and feminine hygiene and provide ongoing support networks for both women and girls.

Objects

1. THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY AMONG WOMEN AND GIRLS ANYWHERE IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, STARTING IN MALAWI, BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF SANITARY PRODUCTS SUCH AS MOONCUPS OR SUSTAINABLE, WASHABLE, REUSABLE PADS WHERE THEY ARE NEEDED. 2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN MALAWI AND SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA IN THE SUBJECT OF MENSTRUATION AND SANITARY PROTECTION AND TO PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO THE ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF PERIOD POVERTY IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA AND TO MAKE RESULTS OF THIS RESEARCH AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC.FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS CLAUSE ÔPERIOD POVERTYÖ MEANS A LACK OF ACCESS TO SANITARY PRODUCTS DUE TO FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS.

Area of benefit: OVERSEAS

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £20,297 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted funds of £19,855. The trustees maintain a reserves policy targeting two months of annual operating expenditure, which the current balance appears to exceed given the low expenditure levels. The charity is prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 11858727 · Financial health read from its filings

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• ROUSSEAU, Michele Louise — director, appointed 25/04/2023on trustee list
• GRAY, Annabel Mary Philipson — director, appointed 14/10/2019on trustee list
• CROSBIE, Nicola Frances — director, appointed 22/04/2019on trustee list
• ROBINSON, Louise Jane — director, appointed 22/04/2019on trustee list
• WOOLSEY, Alexia Cassandra — director, appointed 04/03/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Alexia Woolsey
• Annabel Gray
• Louise Jane Robinson
• Michele Rousseau
• Nicola Frances Crosbie · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Malawi

Income and spending

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Known funders

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