APT ACTION ON POVERTY

Registered charity 290836 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q132472126 · also known as APT ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT

Action on Poverty's vision is a world where everyone can work with pride for a better future. We work in partnership with people in East and West Africa to build livelihoods and transform lives; addressing barriers to safe and lasting work, hunger and injustice. These changemakers access vital skills and resources needed to earn a living and address the root causes of poverty.

Objects

THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND IN PARTICULAR TO RELIEVE POVERTY AMONGST PEOPLE LIVING IN THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES WHO ARE POOR BY REASON OF BEING UNABLE TO EARN THEIR LIVING, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF GENERAL AND TECHNICAL ADVICE ON THE ESTABLISHMENT (INCLUDING THE OPERATION) OF BUSINESS AND NON-PROFIT ENTERPRISES, THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION, TRAINING AND RE-TRAINING IN THE SKILLS REQUIRED FOR EMPLOYMENT AND SELF EMPLOYMENT , THE PROVISION OF RAW MATERIALS AND OTHER GOODS, AND THROUGH THE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT APPROPRIATE FOR USE IN AREAS OF NEED, AND THE PROMOTION OF SUCH DESIGNS, BY ALL SUITABLE MEANS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £24,541 for the year, reducing its free unrestricted reserves to £161,290. This reserve level is within the trustees' stated policy target of 6-12 months' running costs, ensuring the charity can continue operating as a going concern. The charity holds no pension deficits and has no trading subsidiaries.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Knox Cropper LLP. 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — APT Action on Poverty (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (86% 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: 7.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• JAKE BHARIERchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Abidemi Yvonne Sanni
• Amber Beth Honey
• Benjamin Cumming
• David Andrew Elliott
• Dr Brian Stephen Capper · trustee of 3 other charities
• Enitan Anuoluwapo Olowookere
• Helen Jane Altshul

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

Operates in: Kenya · Sierra Leone · Tanzania · Uganda

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHURCH ACTION ON POVERTY LIMITED.

• CHURCH ACTION ON POVERTY LIMITED income £430k
• ACT 4 AFRICA income £88k
• ACTION ON DISABILITY income £1.4m
• ACT (AFRICAN CHILD TRUST) income £204k
• PEOPLE AGAINST POVERTY income £104k
• Action Against Hunger UK income £25.9m

Side by side with its peers

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