African Adventures Foundation

Registered charity 1153361 · since 2013africanadventures.co.uk/foundation·Ghana, Kenya, The Gambia·Updated 29 October 2026

Key takeaways

The work fits best if your project is about children's education in schools in The Gambia, Ghana, Kenya or Zanzibar, which are its priority areas, and falls under one of its four themes: food security, school infrastructure, water, sanitation and hygiene, or school equipment.
The annual report gives no annual giving figure and no grant range, so you cannot judge a realistic size from it.
Its described one-off grants for items such as desks, learning materials and kitchen utensils point towards specific, modest requests, but check this with the funder.
No application process is published, so the sensible first step is to use the contact shown to ask how it takes requests, before writing a full proposal.
Its support is delivered through partner schools, so a project that is not already linked to one may find the connection harder to make; the annual report and its website do not say how schools join or how competitive its giving is.

Overview

African Adventures Foundation is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1153361).

African Adventures Foundation is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1153361), which exists to provide more children with a quality education and better opportunities in life. It provides grants to further education and training, health, poverty relief, amateur sport and community development. Its strategy focuses on four key programmes across 29 partner schools: food security, infrastructure, equipment and resources, and Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH). Its priority areas are The Gambia, Ghana, Kenya and Zanzibar.

What they fund

Priority Areas

The foundation supports partner schools in developing areas of The Gambia, Ghana, Kenya and Zanzibar, seeking to improve children’s education and opportunities. Its four core programmes cover food security, infrastructure, water, sanitation and hygiene, and key equipment. It funds meals at partner schools, building projects such as classrooms, kitchens and sanitation facilities, and essential classroom resources and kitchen equipment. Its WASH work combines better facilities with hygiene and menstrual-health education and sanitary products. The charity also provides partner schools with one-off grants for items needed to run a school, ranging from desks and learning materials to kitchen utensils and IT hardware. Its support is delivered through partner schools and is intended to help them improve the education and essential services available to children.

Themes

Food security
School infrastructure
Water, sanitation and hygiene
School equipment

Geographic Focus

Priority: The Gambia; Ghana; Kenya; Zanzibar.

How to apply

No application process is published in the charity's annual report, its register entry, its website or other pages about it. The contact shown is for getting in touch.

Where they fund

Where it says it funds

Ghana
Kenya
The Gambia

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Five years of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 31 October 2021	£135,557	£129,379	—	Accounts for year to 31 October 2021
year to 31 October 2022	£151,323	£162,536	—	Accounts for year to 31 October 2022
year to 31 October 2023	£218,814	£187,039	—	Accounts for year to 31 October 2023
year to 31 October 2024	£279,396	£293,078	—	Accounts for year to 31 October 2024
year to 31 October 2025	£330,633	£307,631	—	Accounts for year to 31 October 2025

Figures from the charity’s filed accounts and its register entry. The document icon links to the charity’s entry on the Charity Commission register, where its filed accounts can be found.