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Registered charity · Buckingham

Ripple Africa

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £2.8m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

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

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Environment/conservation/heritage, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Malawi
Website
www.rippleafrica.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Ripple Africa
Registered
2004

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.8m£2.1m
  • 2024£2.6m£2.0m
  • 2023£1.8m£1.9m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.4m£1.2m
  • 2021£892k£823k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants 10%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN IN MALAWI AND GREATER AFRICA IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE PROVISION OF SCHOOLS, VOLUNTEER TEACHING ASSISTANTS, EQUIPMENT;2. TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE GOOD HEALTH OF PEOPLE IN MALAWI AND GREATER AFRICA;3. TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT IN MALAWI AND GREATER AFRICA, AND TO PROMOTE BETTER METHODS OF AGRICULTURE AND MANAGEMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES;4. TO RELIEVE POVERTY BY HELPING PEOPLE IN MALAWI AND GREATER AFRICA TO START THEIR OWN SUSTAINABLE BUSINESSES.

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.

5 trustees on the board

10.4y median 10y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

16.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

5
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 5Environment/conservation/heritage 5The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 5

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Professional services 6Business services 4

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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£2.8m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

7.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 4.1 in 2021

224 from 140 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1103256
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 07/07/2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04/09/2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29/03/2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16/01/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 03/03/2012 as amended on 23 Jan 2018
Companies House
Company number 04823686 · Active
Contact on the register
01280822891 · info@rippleafrica.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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