The Malawi Schools Project

Analysis

The Malawi Schools Project is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in West Sussex. It was registered in August 2018, 8 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty, human rights/religious or racial harmony/equality or diversity and other charitable purposes, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending June 2025, The Malawi Schools Project reported income of £14k and spending of £17k, spending 117% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2021 to June 2025, income grew from £7,156 to £14k (+103%), an average of +19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 150%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Malawi Schools Project sits at the 38th percentile: it is larger than about 38% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 38th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Eket Community Union of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland (£14k), Birah Trust (£14k) and The Greenwich Charity (£14k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.