Our partners

The St. James’s Place Foundation is the charitable arm of the St. James’s Place Wealth Management Group. The Foundation has been supporting those in need since 1992, making a positive and lasting difference to people’s lives by awarding grants to charities registered in the UK to assist them in the incredible work they do every day.

St. James’s Place Foundation have provided a lifeline to children at risk by supporting AfriKids’ work in child protection, including providing a safe home for children without one.

Pacha Soap Co. is a purpose-driven company, they create handcrafted, natural, artisanal soaps. Their mission is to challenge the standards for what it means to be an ethical business by taking radical steps to empower communities around the world with long term, sustainable solutions. Pacha have been amazing supporters of women’s livelihoods in northern Ghana, supporting AfriKids to deliver microfinance, village savings & loans programmes, and in training women in soap making.

People’s Postcode Lottery manages multiple society lotteries supporting a range of good causes. Players of People’s Postcode Lottery have raised millions of pounds for charities and good causes across Great Britain and internationally.

The generous support of players of the People’s Postcode Lottery to AfriKids has been transformational for children and families in northern Ghana. This flexible and engaged partnership has brought AfriKids into a family of charities that support and learn from each other and provided expertise and funding that support all of our work in education, child protection and healthcare.

“Support from players of People’s Postcode Lottery continues to help AfriKids transform the lives of some of the world’s poorest children. I am proud that players are able to make a difference to AfriKids incredibly important programmes.”
Clara Govier – Head of Charities at People’s Postcode Lottery

Sir Paul and Lady Jill Ruddock are among AfriKids’ founding Ambassadors and through their family foundation have played a huge role in changing young lives with AfriKids. Dedicated partners for more than a decade, The Ruddock Foundation has helped get children off the streets and into school, established an award-winning primary hospital and helped abolished the “Spirit Child Phenomenon” – educating and supporting communities to abandon a harmful traditional practice.

Mama Laadi is one of AfriKids’ local heroes who is particularly close to Sir Paul and Lady Jill’s hearts. This remarkable lady was a community health nurse who once fed and cared for children on the streets out of a single room. Today, thanks to the Ruddock family and AfriKids, she runs a happy, healthy foster home for children without a safe home. Mama Laadi handles some of the most challenging and distressing of AfriKids’ cases, but her restorative home has transformed the lives of hundreds of children and supported them not only to secure their own futures, but to give back to their communities as they grow older.

“In Ghana I saw AfriKids’ local team in action, they are a force to be reckoned with! Passionate and tenacious, the impact they are having is remarkable and they won’t stop until every child has the rights they deserve. They have our fullest support.”
– Sir Paul Ruddock

The Martin and Eugenia Ephson Educational Trust is a family trust that supports the education and training of children and young people in Ghana.

For a number of years, the Trust has supported the education of children living at the Next Generation Home in Bolgatanga, in northern Ghana. The NGH provides a safe and nurturing home to some of the area’s most at-risk children who do not have a home, including many who have lived and worked on the streets from a young age. Working with AfriKids, The Martin and Eugenia Ephson Educational Trust has supported children to attend kindergarten, primary and junior high school, laying the foundations for them to secure employment and lead independent lives when they grow up.

Lansdowne Partners’ charitable giving aims to improve the lives of the most disadvantaged in the UK and overseas, whilst also building an awareness of our ecological footprint and protecting our planet. They have supported AfriKids in all areas of our work, keeping children happy, healthy and learning.

Set up by Sir Brian and Lady Elizabeth Souter, the Souter Charitable Trust assists projects engaged in the relief of human suffering in the UK and overseas. They have been supporting AfriKids for a number of years and have helped support some of northern Ghana’s children in the most challenging circumstances.

The Coles-Medlock Foundation is a grant making organisation focused on alleviating poverty and hardship by supporting charitable projects across the developing world. Working with UK registered charities and their international partners, they focus on funding sustainable development in education, food provision, infrastructure, healthcare and independent financial progress. Through their support of AfriKids, the Coles-Medlock Foundation have given young people in northern Ghana a brighter future and ensured girls have access to a quality education.

The Cassel Trust is a small grant giving charity, which supports educational projects at home and overseas that address inequality of access to education or training.

The Cassel Trust has supported AfriKids’ work in education, including helping children who, under the pressures of living in poverty, have dropped out of or never been to school. With this support, AfriKids has helped them return to education and given them the opportunity to escape the cycle of poverty for good.

“The Cassel Trust has been pleased to support the work of AfriKids in Ghana for several years and remains impressed with their ethos and use of local expertise to deliver projects and benefits that have a ripple effect through the wider community.”
– Kathryn Hodges, Trust Secretary

The ALMT works with  organisations working towards its shared mission to mitigate the suffering of children worldwide.

The ALMT is one of AfriKids’ longest-standing partners, supporting our work in education and child protection for more than a decade. Our shared commitment to alleviating child suffering has transformed the lives of hundreds of children facing abuse, neglect and exploitation. With the ALMT we have rescued children out of mines, off the streets and out of danger; and provided them with safe homes, education and the support they need to secure a brighter future for themselves.

The Foreign, Commonwealth, & Development Office (FCDO) leads the UK government’s work to end extreme poverty. FCDO aims to tackle the global challenges of our time including poverty and disease, mass migration, insecurity and conflict. FCDO’s work aims to build a safer, healthier, more prosperous world for people in developing countries and in the UK too.

Support from FCDO has been critical to some of AfriKids’ largest and most complex projects. This support from the British people has helped thousands of children go to school and helped bridge the gap between Ghana’s policy for universal education and the reality faced by families living in poverty. More recently, support from FCDO has enabled us to tackle child marriage and harmful practices that are putting children – particularly girls, children without safe homes and children living with disabilities – at risk. This work is changing attitudes, practices and helping local people lead the changes needed to achieve a future where the rights of every child are valued, protected and met by all.

Please click here to view details of the data we publish to the International Aid and Transparency Initiative as part of our work with FCDO.

June Sarpong is one of the most recognisable faces in British television. Over the course of her 20-year career, Sarpong has interviewed countless politicians and celebrities and hosted events such as Make Poverty History and Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday celebrations.

Today she is a panellist on Sky News’ weekly current affairs debate show “The Pledge”, among others, and in 2019 she was appointed as the BBC’s first Director of Creative Diversity. As part of her role,  Sarpong will develop strategies to support both on-air and production talent representation and portrayal across the BBC, its platforms and its partners, to make the BBC more inclusive and representative of the broad and diverse audience it serves.

Sarpong is the author of two award-winning books, ‘Diversify: Six Degrees of Integration’ (2017) and ‘The Power of Women’ (2018).

Gower Street is a family trust which supports projects helping disadvantaged children in Sub-Saharan Africa and London to fulfil their potential through education.

Gower Street is a long-standing, valued partner to AfriKids’ work in education. This has included supporting children in rural communities to go to school for the first time or to return if they have dropped out due to pressures to work or marry instead. Gower Street has also enabled work with schools to improve the quality of education provided in northern Ghana, improving learning outcomes and increasing the number of children who progress to further learning.

CITAC are a specialist consulting company for the downstream, African, energy market. CITAC have helped AfriKids support local communities to tackle the challenges they face and helped to provide a brighter future for young people in northern Ghana.

Medicor Foundation is an independent and charitable foundation based in Liechenstein, focused on international development. Medicor Foundation aims to contribute to the sustainable improvement of the wellbeing and empowerment of vulnerable and disadvantaged people.

Medicor Foundation is the lead partner on our Opening Doors to Schools project, a major part of our work in education. This project is successfully improving enrolment, retention (staying in school) and academic achievement for thousands of children in 60 severely under-resourced schools in northern Ghana.