ETHIOPIAID

Registered charity 802353 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5403530 · Wikipedia

Ethiopiaid supports partner organisations across Ethiopia. These partner organisations focus their work on providing increased access to quality education, improved maternal health care and prevention services and the improvement of community infrastructure. We focus on delivering positive change for the most marginalised and impoverished.

Objects

TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND SICKNESS, TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT HEALTH AND TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AMONG THE PEOPLE OF ETHIOPIA WHO ARE IN NEED.

Area of benefit: ETHIOPIA

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bath and North East Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted general reserves were £1,191,658, which the trustees consider to be in line with their target policy of six months of running costs and partner grant commitments. The charity reported a net income increase of £555,874 for the year, supported by significant legacy income, and maintains adequate cash resources to continue operations without material uncertainty.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Godfrey Wilson Limited. 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
• 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 — Ethiopiaid (matched by registered charity number).

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 7.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/05/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALEX CHAPMANchair
• ALEX FENN
• Dr Alemayehu Asfaw Gebreyes
• Edith Prak · trustee of 1 other charity
• Helena Smith
• Nicola Bullock
• Patrick Reed
• Vanessa Catterall

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

Operates in: Australia · Canada · Ethiopia · Ireland

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

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 PARTNERS FOR CHANGE ETHIOPIA.

• PARTNERS FOR CHANGE ETHIOPIA income £92k
• AFRICAN CHILDRENS EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £111k
• OPEN WAY income £47k
• Together We Learn income £360k
• HOSPICE ETHIOPIA UK income £73k
• AFGHANAID income £16.2m

Side by side with its peers

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