THE BUSOGA TRUST

Registered charity 288388 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Busoga Trust is a UK based, Christian charity which has as its principal aims the raising of money for water development projects in the rural areas of Uganda with a major emphasis on sanitation and health education.

Objects

1. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AND PARTICULARLY BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING IN THE BUSOGA REGION OF UGANDA, 2. THE PROMOTION OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN UGANDA AND THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.

Area of benefit: THE WORLD

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Islington, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £3,862 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £57,412. The trustees consider reserves in the range of £100,000 - £150,000 to be appropriate, indicating that current reserves are below the stated policy target. The going concern assessment confirms adequate resources for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainties.

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.

• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Icelandic Embassy — “Partners: Icelandic Embassy” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (96% 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: 3.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anthony Sharp
• Dr Jennifer Margaret Freeman
• Jonathan Franklin · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev ANDREW GEORGE CAMPBELL PEARSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rob Smith

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

Operates in: Uganda

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BUMBA FOUNDATION.

• BUMBA FOUNDATION income £67k
• MISSION4WATER income £66k
• BUGANDA UK income £32k
• TESO DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £78k
• THE AFRICA TRUST income £1.5m
• JENGA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OUTREACH (UK) income £450k

Side by side with its peers

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