ACTION FOR SOUTHERN AFRICA
Charity number: 1174757
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)
Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
Campaigning & Advocacy work this lies at the core of what we do. We support local actors in southern Africa and lobby key stakeholders in the UK to push for change and secure rights, equality and development for the region. Advancing education of the public on Southern Africa, by highlighting the causes of underdevelopment, poverty and conflict and exposing the destructive legacies of apartheid
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 31 December 2024
Total income: £216,994
Total expenditure: £205,205
People
7 Trustee(s)
24 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
No trustees receive any remuneration, payments or benefits from the charity.
What, who, how, where
What the charity does:
- Education/training
- Disability
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
Who the charity helps:
- The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
Where the charity operates:
- Throughout England And Wales
- Angola
- Botswana
- Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Eswatini
- Lesotho
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mauritius
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Seychelles
- South Africa
- Tanzania
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Governance
Registration history:
- 20 September 2017: CIO registration
Organisation type:
CIO
Other names:
- ACTSA (Working name)
Gift aid:
Recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
- Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
- Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
- Complaints handling
- Complaints policy and procedures
- Conflicting interests
- Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
- Financial reserves policy and procedures
- Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
- Internal risk management policy and procedures
- Investing charity funds 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
7 Trustee(s)
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| CHITRA KARVE | Chair | 20 September 2017 |
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| Marc Patrick Green | Trustee | 10 June 2025 |
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| John Vass Muir | Trustee | 05 September 2020 |
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| Zita Holbourne | Trustee | 05 September 2020 |
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| BENJAMIN JAMES WHITAKER | Trustee | 20 September 2017 |
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| DAVID BOWEN KENVYN | Trustee | 20 September 2017 |
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| Sarvothum Seetharam Kamath | Trustee | 20 September 2017 |
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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 | £157.82k | £120.28k | £111.47k | £141.15k | £216.99k | |
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Total expenditure | £160.51k | £120.86k | £125.27k | £121.64k | £205.21k | |
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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 | £45.43k | £28.04k | 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 | 29 October 2025 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2024 | 29 October 2025 | On time | |
| Annual return | 31 December 2023 | 29 October 2024 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2023 | 29 October 2024 | On time | |
| Annual return | 31 December 2022 | 23 October 2023 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2022 | 23 October 2023 | On time | |
| Annual return | 31 December 2021 | 31 October 2022 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2021 | 31 October 2022 | On time | |
| Annual return | 31 December 2020 | 20 October 2021 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2020 | 20 October 2021 | On time |