Registered charity · Birmingham
Raffa International Development Agency
- 11 trustees
- Income £38k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Bishop Wilton Ralph OBE PowellChair
- Bishop Basil RichardsTrustee
- Jonathan LaingTrustee · since 2020
- Llewellyn Fitzroy GrahamTrustee
- Maxine DouglasTrustee · since 2018
- Michelle LaingTrustee · since 2020
- Monica CokeTrustee · since 2013
- Rev Michael WilsonTrustee
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- Rev Raymond VeiraTrustee · since 2013
- Susan GrahamTrustee · since 2018
- Tedroy Milton PowellTrustee · since 2016
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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People on this board also serve on 2 other charities:
- Nilaari Agency · 1 shared trustee
- Council of Black Majority Churches · 1 shared trustee
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty and 3 more
- Where
- Dominican Republic, Georgia, Ghana, Haiti and more
- Website
- www.raffa.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Raffa International Development Agency
- Registered
- 2008
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£38k£38k
- 2024£75k£76k
- 2023£29k£43k
Earlier years
- 2022£66k£47k
- 2021£7k£7k
Charitable objects
THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED ARE TO BE EFFECTED WORLD-WIDE("THE AREA OF BENEFIT") AND ARE AS FOLLOWS3.1 THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OF PEOPLE LIVING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES BY MAKING GRANTS OF MONEY FOR PROVIDING OR PAYING FOR ITEMS SERVICES OR FACILITIES
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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.
11 trustees on the board
- Bishop Wilton Ralph OBE Powell Chair
- Bishop Basil Richards
- Jonathan Laing since 2020
- Llewellyn Fitzroy Graham
- Maxine Douglas since 2018
- Michelle Laing since 2020
- Monica Coke since 2013
- Rev Michael Wilson
- Rev Raymond Veira since 2013
- Susan Graham since 2018
- Tedroy Milton Powell since 2016
Trustees past 6 years
- Maxine Douglas since 2018
- Monica Coke since 2013
- Rev Raymond Veira since 2013
- Susan Graham since 2018
- Tedroy Milton Powell since 2016
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (9)
- Bishop Wilton Ralph OBE Powell Chair
- Bishop Basil Richards
- Jonathan Laing since 2020
- Llewellyn Fitzroy Graham
- Maxine Douglas since 2018
- Michelle Laing since 2020
- Monica Coke since 2013
- Susan Graham since 2018
- Tedroy Milton Powell since 2016
Portfolio (2)
- Rev Michael Wilson
- Rev Raymond Veira since 2013
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.
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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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1123089
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES (INCORPORATED) 24 OCTOBER 2006 AMENDED BY RESOLUTION 13 FEBRUARY 2008
- Companies House
- Company number 05976094 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 07957144956
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th September 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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