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Registered charity · Norfolk

The Gambian Pencil Project

  • 3 trustees
  • Income £32k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Economic/community Development/employment, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
The Gambia
Website
www.thegambianpencilproject.com (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2001

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£32k£33k
  • 2024£2k£2k
  • 2023£7k£7k
Earlier years
  • 2022£3k£6k
  • 2021£4k£4k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

(A) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION BY ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF A NURSERY SCHOOL, AND ADVANCING THE EDUCATION OF THE CHILDREN ATTENDING THE NURSERY SCHOOL BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR EDUCATION NOT NORMALLY PROVIDED BY THE LOCAL EDUCATION AUTHORITY. (B) TO RELIEVE POVERTY BY THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO PARENTS WHO ARE UNABLE TO AFFORD EDUCATION FOR THEIR CHILDREN, TO HELP THEM PAY TOWARDS ADVANCING THE EDUCATION OF THEIR CHILDREN.

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

3 trustees on the board

1y median 1y
average tenure
1y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
0.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

0
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Economic/community Development/employment 3Overseas Aid/famine Relief 3The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 3

Gaps to watch

  • Small board - little cover if a trustee leaves

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£32k latest income

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1088420
Status
Registered
Governing document
DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 31 JULY 2001 AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 17 JULY 2010
Contact on the register
01263 826373 · mail@thegambianpencilproject.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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