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Zambian Education and Medical Support

RegisteredRegistered charity number 1162951Bury St EdmundsHealth and saving lives
Income£44k2025-12-31
Spending£42ksame year
Spent / received95%5-year average
Size in its cause50th pctHealth and saving lives
Registered2015CIO
Employees–latest return

Analysis

Zambian Education and Medical Support is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bury St Edmunds. It was registered in July 2015, 11 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, the prevention or relief of poverty and overseas aid/famine relief, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Zambian Education and Medical Support reported income of £44k and spending of £42k, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £46k to £44k (-3.6%), an average of -0.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2025, when income rose by 78%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Zambian Education and Medical Support sits at the 50th percentile: it is larger than about 50% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 59th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Grassroots Enterprise for Social Inclusion and Poverty Relief-Gesipr (£44k), Nottingham Hot Property Trust (£44k) and Tiferes Zvi Charitable Trust (£44k).

Income and spending

£0£12k£23k£35k£47k2021 Income: £46,0772021 Spending: £46,60120212022 Income: £46,0772022 Spending: £46,60120222023 Income: £30,2542023 Spending: £24,09320232024 Income: £24,9912024 Spending: £23,98120242025 Income: £44,4222025 Spending: £41,6802025
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Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

ZEMS collect donations for support of various projects mainly in Lusaka, Zambia, but also in other areas of Africa as the need arises. Details are updated regularly on our website

Similar-sized charities, same cause

CharityLocationIncome
Grassroots Enterprise for Social Inclusion and Poverty Relief-GesiprLeeds£44k
Nottingham Hot Property TrustNottingham£44k
Tiferes Zvi Charitable TrustLondon£44k
The Saints' Projects TrustHertfordshire£44k