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Able Child Africa

Able Child Africa is a registered charity (number 326859) based in London, governed by 9 trustees. Latest income £939k (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

Also known as U S D C, Able Child (Charity Commission)

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £939k (2025)
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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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty and 3 more
Where
Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and more
Website
www.ablechildafrica.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Able Child Africa
Registered
1985

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£939k£1.0m
  • 2024£947k£960k
  • 2023£1.0m£909k
Earlier years
  • 2022£689k£738k
  • 2021£957k£910k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 5%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO RELIEVE CHARITABLE NEED, PROMOTE HEALTH, ADVANCE EDUCATION AND PROMOTE THE SOCIAL INTEGRATION OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, WITH A FOCUS ON (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) PROMOTING SUCH DISABLED CHILDREN ACHIEVING THEIR HUMAN, SOCIAL, CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC RIGHTS (AS SET OUT IN THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN ("UNCRC"), UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS ("UDHR") AND SUBSEQUENT UNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATION AND IN REGIONAL CODES OF HUMAN RIGHTS WHICH INCORPORATE THE RIGHTS CONTAINED IN THE UNCRC, THE UDHR AND THOSE SUBSEQUENT CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS) BY ANY MEANS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION CHOOSE AND IN PARTICULAR BY RAISING AWARENESS AS TO THE NEEDS OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES AND ADVOCACY AS TO HOW THOSE NEEDS CAN BEST BE MET.

Grants received

9 grants · £2,017,965 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.

9 trustees on the board

4y median 3y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (2)

8
company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 9Disability 8Education/training 8Overseas Aid/famine Relief 1The 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.

Health and social care 9Finance 2Other services 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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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£939k 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.

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

11 from 9 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
326859
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 06/11/1984AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07/02/1985AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/04/1985AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/02/1991AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11/05/2007AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 31/05/2007 as amended on 14 Apr 2020
Companies House
Company number 01861434 · Active
Contact on the register
02077336006 · info@ablechild.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
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