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Registered charity · Bath

Ripple Effect International

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £13m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief and 3 more
Where
Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda and more
Website
www.rippleeffect.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Ripple Effect International
Registered
1988

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£13m£12m
  • 2024£9.0m£8.6m
  • 2023£9.9m£8.8m
Earlier years
  • 2022£7.5m£7.9m
  • 2021£6.7m£6.8m
Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE PRIMARILY TO RELIEVE POVERTY AMONGST THOSE OF ALL FAITHS AND NONE IN COUNTRIES OF LOW PER CAPITA INCOME, PARTICULARLY THROUGH TRAINING IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND BY THE PROVISION OF LIVESTOCK AND/OR OTHER RESOURCES. A FURTHER OBJECT IS TO EDUCATE AUDIENCES AND ADVOCATE FOR EFFECTIVE DEVELOPMENT. THESE OBJECTS ARE TO BE PURSUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLES AND VALUES OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH.

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.

9 trustees on the board

3.3y median 3y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (3)

9
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 9Disability 8The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 7Animals 2Environment/conservation/heritage 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.

Agriculture 10Retail and trade 4Health and social care 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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£12.6m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

0.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 1.8 in 2021

283 from 233 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
299717
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 25/08/1988AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 10/06/1999AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 19/02/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18/09/2013NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 18/09/2013AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 08/10/2013 as amended on 22 Jun 2022
Companies House
Company number 02290024 · Active
Contact on the register
01225874222 · info@rippleeffect.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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