EDUCATION SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

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Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Crowe U.K. LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“On this basis, the trustees are satisfied that it is appropriate to prepare the 2023/24 financial statements on a going concern basis.”

Group structure

1. EDUCATION SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA · parent
   1. Education Sub Saharan Africa LBG 1% · Ghana · Education

Significant events

• “Big focus this year has been on strengthening partnerships and building new ones that would help us use evidence and data to drive change in education outcomes across Sub-Saharan Africa. Through our Enhancing Education Research in Africa (EERA) initiative, in collaboration with Southern Hemisphere, we worked alongside more than 600 African researchers to develop eight evidence-based solutions that will help reshape the future of education on the continent.”
• “Made important strides with our Demographics of African Faculty initiative, providing critical data on the shortages of faculty across the East African Community.”
• “Hosted Grant Proposal Writing Workshops in Nairobi and Accra, delivered by INASP and APHRC. Forty-six researchers from 13 African countries learned essential skills to secure funding for their work.”
• “Welcomed new team members in Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda, as well as two exceptional new trustees - Professor Hellen Inyega and Abdelrahman Hassan.”
• “The team has grown from 26 to 28 members, further strengthening capacity to deliver on critical priorities.”
• “The board met in person over two days to reflect on delivery against its 2021-2026 strategy. Based on nearly three years of lessons, the board resolved to adapt the strategy by taking a more country-focused approach and doubling down on focus areas.”
• “ESSA hosted two virtual consultative workshops in April 2024, engaging over 100 participants from Anglophone, Francophone, and Lusophone regions.”
• “In November 2023, ESSA launched Phase 2 of the Demographics of African Faculty in the East African Community (DAF EAC) project, funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York.”
• “One of our most impactful collaborations was with T-TEL Ghana, alongside other partners in the Secondary Education Reform (Leaders in Teaching) programme.”
• “In February, ESSA, alongside VVOB and ADEA, gathered in Kenya to discuss and plan for the Implementation Phase of the African Centre for School Leadership (ACSL)... The Mastercard Foundation approved the grant which was critical to strengthening and extending our partnership with both ADEA and VVOB.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

11

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

last 12 months

Officers resigned

1

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  -50.4%

  £31,600 → £15,671

• Cash

  +6.2%

  £721,322 → £765,841

• Net assets

  -24.6%

  £998,576 → £753,169

• Employees

  +55.6%

  18 → 28

• Profit before tax

  -269%

  £121,032 → -£204,553

• Wages

  +24.5%

  £627,239 → £780,933

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers