Tertiary Education Scholarship Trust for Africa

Analysis

Tertiary Education Scholarship Trust for Africa is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Guildford. It was registered in June 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending June 2025, Tertiary Education Scholarship Trust for Africa reported income of £77k and spending of £74k, spending 96% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2021 to June 2025, income fell from £209k to £77k (-63%), an average of -22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income dropped by 31%. Over the whole period it spent 75% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Tertiary Education Scholarship Trust for Africa sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% 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 Basford, Bestwood & Bulwell Foodbank (£77k), Faith Temple Church of God(Pentecostal) (£77k) and Medway Vineyard Church (£77k).