Common questions about Promoting Equality in African Schools's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Promoting Equality in African Schools a good charity? +
Promoting Equality in African Schools scores 70 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 96% 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 Promoting Equality in African Schools a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Promoting Equality in African Schools as a registered charity (charity number 1126550). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1126550&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 Promoting Equality in African Schools's charity number? +
Promoting Equality in African Schools's charity number is 1126550. 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 Promoting Equality in African Schools's charity rating? +
Promoting Equality in African Schools scores 70 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 Promoting Equality in African Schools have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Promoting Equality in African Schools. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (one red flag on this profile: late accounts filing). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches Promoting Equality in African Schools? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 96% of Promoting Equality in African Schools'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 Promoting Equality in African Schools's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 4% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 4% of expenditure (2022–2024, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Promoting Equality in African Schools. Promoting Equality in African Schools's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 5 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (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 Promoting Equality in African Schools receive? +
Promoting Equality in African Schools reported £9.7m total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Promoting Equality in African Schools's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: late (last filing 2025-09-19). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Promoting Equality in African Schools based? +
Promoting Equality in African Schools's registered contact address is in London (SE1 3GN). It tells the regulator it operates in Uganda, Zambia, Ghana, with a focus on international aid.
How much is Promoting Equality in African Schools's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Promoting Equality in African Schools's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 5 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (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 Promoting Equality in African Schools's money come from? +
Promoting Equality in African Schools reported £11m total income for the year ending 31 December 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £7.1m (63%), charitable activities £4.1m (36%), other income £97k (1%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Promoting Equality in African Schools? +
The register records Promoting Equality in African Schools as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid, so a UK taxpayer can usually add 25p to every £1 they give by making a Gift Aid declaration.
Are Promoting Equality in African Schools's trustees paid? +
Promoting Equality in African Schools's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was Promoting Equality in African Schools registered as a charity? +
Promoting Equality in African Schools was entered on the register on 4 November 2008. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 06552715).
How does CharityCompare score Promoting Equality in African Schools? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Promoting Equality in African Schools'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 Promoting Equality in African Schools'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.