Positive Women

We establish projects and programs that eradicate poverty and empower women in Swaziland.Our empowerment work with women not only helps eradicate poverty in their local communities but gives them the skills and confidence to fight for a better life. We will fund women led small businesses, send aids orphaned children to school and help pioneer legal cases to protect women and children.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

Elsewhere

• Eswatini
• Angola
• Cameroon
• Malawi
• Mozambique
• Nigeria
• Rwanda
• Senegal
• Tanzania
• Uganda
• Ukraine
• Zimbabwe
• Throughout England and Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: Africa, in Particular Swaziland, and Uk

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

The register has no income or spending figures for this charity.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Up 300%, from £2,555 in the year to 17 October 2021 to £10,219 in the year to 17 October 2024.

Spending against income

It spent 43% of its income in the year to 17 October 2024. It spent more than its income in 1 of the 4 years shown.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 17 October 2024: Not reported. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

No grants to this charity appear in 360Giving data.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

The register lists no trustees for this charity.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 4 arrived by the deadline.

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Charity number

1111952

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

7 November 2005

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 29TH JULY 2005 AS AMENDED 17TH OCTOBER 2005, 28 AUGUST 2010 AND 2 OCTOBER 2010.

Website

www.firstyearafrica.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Swansea

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 18 April 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there, as loaded by OpenEconomy.

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