FARM AFRICA LIMITED

Registered charity 326901 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FARM-AFRICA, FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH MANAGEMENT, FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH MANAGEMENT LIMITED

Farm Africa is an international non-governmental organisation whose vision is of a prosperous rural Africa. Our aim is to reduce poverty permanently by unleashing African farmers' abilities to grow their incomes and manage their natural resources sustainably.

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that Farm Africa reported a surplus of £0.4m for 2024, with total income rising to £16.9m primarily due to increased programme grants and legacy income. However, unrestricted reserves of £1.4m remain below the trustees' stated target of £2.5m, as the charity is in transition to a sustainable financial model aimed at generating a surplus from 2027.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe UK LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Farm Africa (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• Waitrose Foundation — “Since 2017, Waitrose Foundation and Farm Africa have been working together to improve the lives of over 20,000 farmers and workers in vegeta…” (source page)
• Farmer J — “Farmer J , a health-focused quick service restaurant chain, is supporting Farm Africa through sales of fieldbowls across all their restauran…” (source page)
• Sainsbury’s — “Sainsbury’s will support Farm Africa through the sale of green beans in its stores across the UK. The retailer will donate 10p to Farm Afric…” (source page)
• S’ABLE Labs — “S’ABLE Labs, a multifaceted wellbeing initiative founded by Sabrina and Idris Elba, is supporting the charity Farm Africa through the sales …” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~1.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/09/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amar Inamdar
• Anna Olivia Akinyi Onyango
• Caroline Maisie Miller Smith
• Francois Jay
• Jane Ngige
• Julian David Marks · trustee of 1 other charity
• Keith William Pickard · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kenneth Mathieson Caldwell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nick Allen
• Victoria Unwin

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

Operates in: Congo (Democratic Republic) · Ethiopia · Kenya · Tanzania · Uganda

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 FARMERS OVERSEAS ACTION GROUP.

• FARMERS OVERSEAS ACTION GROUP income £101k
• AFRICAN AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION income £21.3m
• SELF HELP AFRICA (UK) income £3.2m
• ForAfrika income £438k
• SHAREAFRICA income £599k
• ADVANTAGE AFRICA income £359k

Side by side with its peers

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