SMILE WITH GAMBIA

Registered charity 1190723 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Smile With Gambia started off with an initial project of building a Mosque and a few classrooms. The positive feedback encouraged us to run a Ramadan initiative in April 2020 to provide food packs to the poor and needy. Since then with your support we have grown to deliver a number of projects and hope to continue to serve those who needs us.

Objects

THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN GAMBIA BY PROVIDING: GRANTS, ITEMS AND SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND/OR CHARITIES, OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY.

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 net expenditure of £10,518.40 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds. The trustees' report indicates that the current level of unrestricted reserves is considered appropriate to meet current and future commitments, despite the policy of not holding reserves.

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

What the accounts disclose

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.

• 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
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Smile With Gambia (SWG) (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/07/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 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 (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mohammed Hassan Ejazchair
• Fahad Khamkar
• Tarek Rahman

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

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 GIFT A SMILE.

• GIFT A SMILE income £141k
• GAMBIA SCHOOL SUPPORT income £157k
• HELPING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE income £334k
• HELP FOR EDUCATION AND LOCAL PROJECTS IN THE GAMBIA income £132k
• SMILE INTERNATIONAL income £143k
• SMILESTAR income £286k

Side by side with its peers

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