Common questions about African Agricultural Technology Foundation's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is African Agricultural Technology Foundation a good charity? +
African Agricultural Technology Foundation scores 69 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 86% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are late. That reflects how transparent and financially healthy it looks on paper — it does not measure the real-world impact of its work, so treat it as one factor alongside the cause you care about. CharityCompare never tells you where to donate.
Is African Agricultural Technology Foundation a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists African Agricultural Technology Foundation as a registered charity (charity number 1107507). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1107507&subId=0. Check the current entry and the identity of anyone requesting money. Registration does not verify a particular appeal; Clarity Score summarises filing transparency, not programme impact.
What is African Agricultural Technology Foundation's charity number? +
African Agricultural Technology Foundation's charity number is 1107507. Check that number on the official register (Charity Commission, OSCR or CCNI) or this CharityCompare profile before you donate — scammers sometimes reuse real numbers on fake appeals.
What is African Agricultural Technology Foundation's charity rating? +
African Agricultural Technology Foundation scores 69 out of 100 on CharityCompare (3 stars — Needs improvement). The Clarity Score (method v1.1) sums four pillars from UK regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 pts), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10). Stars use the same bands as those labels — 90+ is 5★ Exceptional. It is not an impact ranking.
Does African Agricultural Technology Foundation have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for African Agricultural Technology Foundation. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (2 red flags on this profile: late accounts filing; poor filing history). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches African Agricultural Technology Foundation? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 86% of African Agricultural Technology Foundation's total spending went to charitable activities (3-yr avg across disclosed years). That is the closest official figure to "how much of your donation reaches the cause" — it is an average across all spending in the filing, not a pound-by-pound breakdown of an individual gift.
What are African Agricultural Technology Foundation's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 14% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 15% of expenditure (2022–2024, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at African Agricultural Technology Foundation. African Agricultural Technology Foundation's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 16 employees paid more than £60,000, including 14 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £200,001–£250,000 (1 employee). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does African Agricultural Technology Foundation receive? +
African Agricultural Technology Foundation reported £21m total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are African Agricultural Technology Foundation's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: late (last filing 2025-12-10). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is African Agricultural Technology Foundation based? +
African Agricultural Technology Foundation's register entry is at United Kingdom. It tells the regulator it operates in Angola, Australia, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, with a focus on international aid.
How much is African Agricultural Technology Foundation's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. African Agricultural Technology Foundation's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 16 employees paid more than £60,000, including 14 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £200,001–£250,000 (1 employee). Charities normally disclose the chief executive's pay, or the pay of their highest-paid staff, in the remuneration note of the trustees' annual report and accounts.
Where does African Agricultural Technology Foundation's money come from? +
African Agricultural Technology Foundation reported £21m total income for the year ending 31 December 2024. The largest sources were donations and legacies £19m (90%), other income £1.6m (8%), investments £421k (2%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to African Agricultural Technology Foundation? +
The register does not record African Agricultural Technology Foundation as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid. Ask the charity before assuming a donation can be Gift Aided.
Are African Agricultural Technology Foundation's trustees paid? +
African Agricultural Technology Foundation's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was African Agricultural Technology Foundation registered as a charity? +
African Agricultural Technology Foundation was entered on the register on 7 January 2005. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 04645806).
How does CharityCompare score African Agricultural Technology Foundation? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in African Agricultural Technology Foundation's regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 points — filing history, trustees, policies), Financial Health (30 — reserves, income trend, debt), Financial Efficiency (20 — cause spend and fundraising cost, on a graduated scale) and Community Support (10 — volunteer-to-staff ratio). An open statutory inquiry scores 0. The score measures reporting on paper, not programme impact. CharityCompare is free for donors, takes no commission on donations, and scores cannot be bought.
How often is this page updated? +
This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and African Agricultural Technology Foundation's most recent accounts cover 2024. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.