TRANSFORMATIONAL ENTERPRISE NETWORK

Registered charity 1194973 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We are a Christian-based network of volunteers with business skills and resources that we use to help create or develop businesses aiming to alleviate poverty. Activities include business start up training, mentoring and other support. We are currently especially involved in projects in Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda but members' are involved in other countries in Africa and Asia.

Objects

THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, BY THE PROVISION OF TRAINING AND SUPPORT ON THE CREATION OR DEVELOPMENT OF BUSINESSES AND OTHER ENTERPRISES TO INDIVIDUALS OR ORGANISATIONS AND CHARITIES WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY, AS A PRACTICAL EXPRESSION OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH.

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cheshire West and Chester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated with total incoming resources of £54,911 and total resources expended of £56,221, resulting in a net decrease in funds. The unrestricted fund balance decreased from £6,701 to £8,809 (note: this is an increase, let's re-read). Unrestricted funds c/f 8,809 vs b/f 6,701. Restricted funds c/f 2,581 vs b/f 6,000. Total funds c/f 11,390 vs b/f 12,701. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £8,809. The trustees confirmed the charity is entitled to exemption from audit.

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.

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.

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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jeremy Charles Arthur Marshall MA DipMchair
• Dr Irene Banda Ph.D
• Gillian Margaret Dandy
• Ian Timothy Pounce · trustee of 1 other charity
• NICHOLAS JOHN HOUGHTON · trustee of 4 other charities

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

Operates in: Burundi · Kenya · Madagascar · Malawi · Throughout England And Wales · Uganda

Income and spending

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