Registered charity · South Yorkshire
Serve Afghanistan
- 7 trustees
- Income £1.9m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief and 1 more
- Where
- Afghanistan
- Website
- www.serveafghanistan.org (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Serve Afghanistan
- Registered
- 2004
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£1.9m£1.9m
- 2024£1.4m£1.5m
- 2023£1.6m£1.8m
Earlier years
- 2022£1.8m£1.8m
- 2021£1.0m£784k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
(A) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SUFFERING AND DISTRESS AMONG THE NEEDY, THE SICK, THE AGED, THE HANDICAPPED, THE HOMELESS AND DISPLACED PERSONS IN AFGHANISTAN AND ANY OTHER PLACE IN THE WORLD;(B) THE PROMOTION OF AND PROVISION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING BY WHATEVER MEANS MAY BE APPROPRIATE IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES IN AFGHANISTAN AND THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AND IN PARTICULAR, BY;(I) ACQUIRING, FOUNDING AND DEVELOPING SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES FOR THE EDUCATION OF EITHER SEX;(II) PROVIDING, ASSISTING AND FACILITATING THE PROVISION OF SUCH EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS CARRIED ON BY OTHERS; AND (III) PROVIDING, ASSISTING AND FACILITATING TRAINING AND INSTRUCTION IN ALL BRANCHES OF LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE, CITIZENSHIP, HYGIENE, ARTS AND CRAFTS OF ALL KINDS, INCLUDING MENTAL AND PHYSICAL TRAINING;(C) THE PROMOTION AND UPHOLDING OF THE PRINCIPLES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN GENERAL.
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.
7 trustees on the board
- Bruce Clark since 2025
- Dr Sara Varughese since 2021
- Jennifer Mary Collins since 2019
- Judith Helen Powell Thomas since 2023
- Mark Larson since 2017
- Matthew Wade since 2022
- Peter John Vander Meulen since 2019
Trustees past 6 years
- Jennifer Mary Collins since 2019
- Mark Larson since 2017
- Peter John Vander Meulen since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (6)
- Dr Sara Varughese since 2021
- Jennifer Mary Collins since 2019
- Judith Helen Powell Thomas since 2023
- Mark Larson since 2017
- Matthew Wade since 2022
- Peter John Vander Meulen since 2019
Portfolio (1)
- Bruce Clark since 2025
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
2.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 3.7 in 2020
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1105086
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 9 MAY 2003 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 16 JUNE 2004.
- Companies House
- Company number 04759091 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 07928178580 · info@serveafghanistan.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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