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Registered charity · Sutton

Education SUB-Saharan Africa

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £4.2m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, Economic/community Development/employment, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
Where
Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon and more
Website
www.essa-africa.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Education SUB-Saharan Africa
Registered
2016

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£4.2m£2.1m
  • 2024£1.5m£1.7m
  • 2023£1.3m£1.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.3m£1.1m
  • 2021£795k£872k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY IS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA.

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

4.4y median 3y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

7
company-linked trustees

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

Economic/community Development/employment 7Education/training 7Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 7

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 8Professional services 6Business services 3

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£1.5m 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.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 0.6 in 2020

27 from 6 in 2020
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
1166958
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 04 APR 2016
Companies House
Company number 10101086 · Active
Contact on the register
+447551742384 · info@essa-africa.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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