TREND IN AFRICA

Registered charity 1186066 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN THE FIELD OF NATURAL SCIENCE

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN THE FIELD OF NATURAL SCIENCE, IN PARTICULAR ON THE AFRICAN CONTINENT BY….’(1) FACILITATING IN THE CONDUCTION OF RESEARCH IN NATURAL SCIENCE(2) ORGANISING AND RUNNING TRAINING COURSES AND SEMINARS IN NATURAL SCIENCES FOR AFRICAN-BASED RESEARCHERS AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS.(3) ORGANISING AND RUNNING SCIENCE OUTREACH EVENTS ON THE AFRICAN CONTINENT FOR ALL MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, INCLUDING SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS, TEACHERS, PARENTS, PROFESSIONALS AND DECISION MAKERS. (4) ORGANISING THE COLLECTION, SHIPMENT AND DISTRIBUTION OF DONATED LABORATORY EQUIPMENT AND REAGENTS FOR AFRICAN-BASED RESEARCHERS.

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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Registered contact address: Brighton and Hove, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing of resources of £7,743 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £90,059. The trustees consider 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 4 of 6 completeness components.

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2024 (received 27/03/2025, 55 days after the 31/01/2025 due date); year ending 31/03/2023 (received 27/03/2025, 421 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 14/03/2023, 42 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor Thomas Baden FRSBchair
• Dr Jelena Aleksic
• Dr Laura Lucia Prieto Godino
• Dr Pauline Essah

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

Operates in: Algeria · Angola · Benin · Botswana · Burkina Faso · Burundi · Cameroon · Cape Verde · Central African Republic · Chad · Comoros · Congo (Democratic Republic)

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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