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Registered charity · London

African Development Trust

  • 4 trustees
  • Income £625k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability and 2 more
Where
Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia
Website
www.africandt.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
African Development Trust (ADT)
Registered
2014

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£625k£639k
  • 2024£616k£748k
  • 2023£833k£671k
Earlier years
  • 2022£678k£792k
  • 2021£608k£516k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:1) TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THOSE LIVING IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT BY THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS AND TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT GOOD HEALTH;2) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION; AND3) THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY AMONGST THOSE WHO ARE REFUGEES OR WHO ARE OR HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY CIVIL OR MILITARY ACTION OR NATURAL DISASTER AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DETERMINE.

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.

4 trustees on the board

6.5y median 5.5y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

Portfolio (1)

3
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 4General Charitable Purposes 4The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 3The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 1

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 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£625k latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

0.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

5 from 4 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.
Qualified
Auditor's opinioniAuditor's opinionThe accounts_qualified flag on the latest filed annual return is True - the auditor qualified their opinion. A register flag, shown as filed.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1157822
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 08/06/2006AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 29/09/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 28/04/2014
Companies House
Company number 05841438 · Active
Contact on the register
02073543355 · info@africandt.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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