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Chipembele Trust

RegisteredRegistered charity number 1107698AbingdonOverseas aid and international
Income£76k2025-12-31
Spending£61ksame year
Spent / received116%5-year average
Size in its cause70th pctOverseas aid and international
Registered2005Other
Employees–latest return

Analysis

Chipembele Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Abingdon. It was registered in January 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, overseas aid/famine relief, animals and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. It says it makes grants to organisations, provides other finance and provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Chipembele Trust reported income of £76k and spending of £61k, spending 80% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £58k to £76k (+31%), an average of +7.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2024, when income rose by 26%. Over the whole period it spent 116% of the income it received.

Among 1,223 England and Wales charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Chipembele Trust sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Fellowship of Reconciliation (For) (£76k), African Enterprise UK Ltd (£77k) and Bethel Evangelical Church Gorseinon (£76k).

Income and spending

£0£30k£60k£91k£121k2021 Income: £58,2862021 Spending: £120,81620212022 Income: £63,7552022 Spending: £39,53720222023 Income: £59,8072023 Spending: £81,40820232024 Income: £75,1712024 Spending: £85,38620242025 Income: £76,4872025 Spending: £61,3712025
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Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

Supporting the Chipembele Wildlife Education Trust (CWET) Centre for the advancement of the education of children and young people in Zambia in the conservation and preservation of the environment and its wildlife. Also supporting CWET's Chipembele Pupil Sponsorship Scheme which enables orphaned and vulnerable children to attend school.

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