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Registered charity · Wokingham

Brass for Africa

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £916k (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Liberia, Uganda
Website
www.brassforafrica.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Brass for Africa
Registered
2012

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£916k£865k
  • 2023£923k£870k
  • 2022£503k£561k
Earlier years
  • 2021£367k£407k
  • 2020£568k£315k
Charitable objects

THE CHARITY’S OBJECT ARE TO RELIEVE SICKNESS, TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT GOOD HEALTH AND ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE SUBJECT OF MUSIC BY SUPPORTING PROJECTS AND WORK AT THE GOOD SHEPHERD HOME AND THE BETHLEHEM ORPHANGE IN KAMPALA AND ELSEWHERE AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT, WITH A VIEW TO SUPPORTING THEIR DEVELOPMENT IN ACHIEVING THEIR FULL PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS.

Board analysis for researchers

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.

10 trustees on the board

6.4y median 3y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (2)

9
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 10Economic/community Development/employment 10Education/training 10

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

Education 12Tech and media 2Arts and leisure 1

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£916k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
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.

1.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 8.5 in 2020

45
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
1149863
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 17 OCT 2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 20/11/2012
Companies House
Company number 08256267 · Active
Contact on the register
07503197064 · info@brassforafrica.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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