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Registered charity (CIO) · London

Africa Advocacy Foundation

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £1.4m (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, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty and 2 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Belgium, France, Italy and more
Website
www.africadvocacy.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2015

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.4m£1.4m
  • 2024£1.2m£1.2m
  • 2023£1.3m£1.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.1m£1.0m
  • 2021£1.0m£779k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 30%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE: (A) TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND SICKNESS IN COMMUNITIES EXPERIENCING DISADVANTAGE BOTH IN THE UK AND OVERSEAS (B) TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE HEALTH AND TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF THOSE SUFFERING FROM POOR HEALTH (C) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION BY PROVIDING RESOURCES AND PLATFORMS FOR LEARNING (D) TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE (E) TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF THE ELDERLY AND DISABLED

Grants received

26 grants · £3,025,909 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

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.

6 trustees on the board

6.8y median 7.5y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (1)

1
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 6Disability 5The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 5Economic/community Development/employment 1Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 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.

Health and social care 1

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£1.4m latest income
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.

2.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 0.0 in 2021

13 from 10 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
1164778
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - Foundation Registered 09 Dec 2015 as amended on 27 May 2025
Contact on the register
02086984473 · info@africadvocacy.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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