BOOKS TO AFRICA INTERNATIONAL
Charity Number: 1152599
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)
Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN AFRICA BY THE PROVISION OF BOOKS, EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS AND SCHOLARSHIPS OR AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DETERMINE
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 31 December 2024
Total income: £336,563
Total expenditure: £314,532
People
9 Trustee(s)
20 Volunteer(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
No employees have total benefits over £60k for this charityFundraising
No information available
Trading
This charity does not have any trading subsidiaries.
Trustee payments
One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for another benefit.
What, who, how, where
What the charity does:
- Education/training
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Amateur Sport
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Recreation
Who the charity helps:
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People With Disabilities
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Provides Human Resources
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Services
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
Where the charity operates:
- Throughout England And Wales
- Algeria
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Cameroon
- Chad
- Comoros
- Congo
- Djibouti
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Ghana
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Mayotte
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Réunion
- Rwanda
- Saint Helena
- São Tomé And Principe
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- South Africa
- Tanzania
- The Gambia
- Togo
- Uganda
- Zambia
Governance
Registration history:
- 26 June 2013: Standard registration
Organisation type:
Charitable company
Other names:
- BOOKS TO AFRICA OR BTA (Working name)
Company number:
Gift aid:
Recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
- Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
- Complaints handling
- Complaints policy and procedures
- Conflicting interests
- Financial reserves policy and procedures
- Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
- Internal risk management policy and procedures
- Paying staff
- Risk management
- Safeguarding policy and procedures
- Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
- Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
- Social media policy and procedures
- Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
- Trustee expenses policy and procedures
- Volunteer management
Land and property:
This charity does not own and/or lease land or property
Trustees
Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service
9 Trustee(s)
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| Dr TONSON SANGO | Chair | 14 May 2013 |
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| Sara Bell | Trustee | 11 October 2021 |
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| Prince Ikeru | Trustee | 11 October 2021 |
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| Langa Mpofu | Trustee | 11 October 2021 |
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| Arshita Nandan | Trustee | 21 October 2019 |
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| Alexandra Kieffer | Trustee | 21 October 2019 |
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| Dr PRECIOUS SANGO | Trustee | 14 May 2013 |
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| GIDEON SANGO | Trustee | 14 May 2013 |
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| CHUMANG SANGO | Trustee | 14 May 2013 |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
| Income / Expenditure | 31/12/2020 | 31/12/2021 | 31/12/2022 | 31/12/2023 | 31/12/2024 | ||
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Total gross income | £266.96k | £421.97k | £322.61k | £298.25k | £336.56k | |
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Total expenditure | £281.44k | £445.51k | £386.84k | £313.54k | £314.53k | |
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Income from government contracts | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income from government grants | £25.00k | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Accounts and annual returns
This table shows the charity's record of submitting annual returns, accounts and trustees' annual report (TAR) for the last five financial periods.
| Title | Reporting year | Date received | Received | Download |
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| Annual return | 31 December 2024 | 30 April 2025 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2024 | 30 April 2025 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 December 2023 | 31 October 2024 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2023 | 31 October 2024 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 December 2022 | 31 October 2023 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2022 | 31 October 2023 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 December 2021 | 31 October 2022 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2021 | 31 October 2022 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 December 2020 | 28 September 2021 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2020 | 28 September 2021 | On Time | Download Open in new window |