DEEP LEARNING INDABA LIMITED

Registered charity 1204771 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Deep Learning Indaba Limited is an educational charity whose mission is to Strengthen African Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. We do this by building communities, creating leadership, and recognising excellence in AI across Africa. We achieve our mission through several programmes and partner with donors and organisations wherever they are to support this important need.

Objects

4. THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ('OBJECTS') ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:(1) TO ADVANCE, ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD BUT PRIMARILY IN AFRICA AND OTHER PLACES WHERE SUCH DISCIPLINES ARE UNDER-DEVELOPED AND WHICH ARE UNDER-REPRESENTED IN INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL WORK IN THESE DISCIPLINES, THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SUBJECTS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING AND RELATED FIELDS, IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION IN THE SCIENCE, APPLICATIONS AND ETHICS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BY: (A) HOSTING, ARRANGING AND SUPPORTING (AND SUPPORTING OTHERS TO HOST AND ARRANGE) CONFERENCES, LECTURES, WORKSHOPS AND OTHER VIRTUAL AND PHYSICAL EVENTS TO PROMOTE KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE SUBJECT INCLUDING RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE FIELD, AND TO STIMULATE USEFUL DISCUSSION AND EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION ABOUT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING AND RELATED FIELDS; AND(B) PROVIDING GRANTS AND OTHER FORMS OF SUPPORT TO ENCOURAGE AND PROMOTE ACADEMIC STUDY IN THE FIELDS OF MACHINE LEARNING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AND (2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION INTO THE PRACTICAL USES OF MACHINE LEARNING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN SOCIETY, AND IN PARTICULAR HOW MACHINE LEARNING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CAN BE USED FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT FOR EXAMPLE IN AREAS OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, BY PROMOTING RESEARCH INTO THE ABOVE SUBJECTS AND PUBLISHING OR DISSEMINATING THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.

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 FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £125,103 for the year ended 31 March 2024, with total income of £814,174 against total expenditure of £689,071. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £83,425, and the trustees consider that the charity has very few running costs and does not require significant reserves to be held.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (64% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Shakir Mohamedchair
• Dr Ulrich Paquet
• Kathleen Siminyu
• Prof Vukosi Ntsakisi Marivate

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

Operates in: Algeria · Benin · Cameroon · Congo (Democratic Republic) · Eswatini · Ethiopia · Ghana · Ivory Coast · Kenya · Madagascar · Malawi · Mali

Income and spending

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