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Farm Africa Limited

Farm Africa Limited is a registered charity (number 326901) based in London, governed by 10 trustees. Latest income £17m (2024). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

Also known as Farm-Africa (Charity Commission)

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £17m (2024)
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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
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and more
Website
www.farmafrica.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Farm Africa Limited
Registered
1985

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£17m£16m
  • 2023£11m£14m
  • 2022£15m£15m
Earlier years
  • 2021£12m£12m
  • 2020£10m£13m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(1) TO RELIEVE THE POVERTY OF FARMERS, AGRICULTURAL WORKERS AND HERDERS BY ENABLING THEM TO IMPROVE THE EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF THEIR NATURAL RESOURCES (2) TO PROMOTE THE IMPROVEMENT OF AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, FOOD PRODUCTION, STORAGE AND DISTRIBUTION AND CONDUCT RESEARCH AND TO DISSEMINATE KNOWLEDGE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC TO ENCOURAGE SKILL AND INDUSTRY IN HUSBANDRY. (3) TO PROMOTE THE IMPROVEMENT OF LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY AND THE PREVENTION AND ERADICATION OF DISEASE THEREIN. (4) TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN, AND THE FURTHERING OF THE INTERESTS OF AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, AGRICULTURE, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND INDUSTRIES ALLIED THERETO. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES).

Grants received

6 grants · £1,419,894 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

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £489,5972015-04-29
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £8,9252013-12-18
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £470,9612012-08-01
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,2312011-11-24
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £440,1802008-04-16
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.

10 trustees on the board

4.2y median 4y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

15.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (3)

10
company-linked trustees

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

Environment/conservation/heritage 9Overseas Aid/famine Relief 9The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 9Education/training 2Arts/culture/heritage/science 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.

Business services 38Finance 29Professional services 17

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£16.9m 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.

1.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months

246 from 223 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
326901
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 29/05/1985, AMENDED ON 05/10/1989, 10/10/1995, 13/04/1999, 17/12/2002 AND 23/06/2004 AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 11/08/2015
Companies House
Company number 01926828 · Active
Contact on the register
0207 430 0440 · info@farmafrica.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
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