Sub-sahara Advisory Panel

Our mission is to inspire and inform policy and practice which lead to the reduction of poverty and the achievement of sustainable livelihoods in Africa, with a particular focus on sub-Saharan Africa. We do this through practical policy advice, policy-focused dissemination, debate and applied research. We also work with partners in the public and private sectors across Wales and UK generally.

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

Elsewhere

• Throughout England and Wales
• Algeria
• Angola
• Benin
• Botswana
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Comoros
• Congo
• Djibouti
• Egypt
• Equatorial Guinea
• Eritrea
• Ethiopia
• Gabon
• The Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea-bissau
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Lesotho
• Liberia
• Libya
• Madagascar
• Malawi
• Mali
• Mauritania
• Mauritius
• Morocco
• Mozambique
• Namibia
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Rwanda
• São Tomé and Principe
• Senegal
• Seychelles
• Sierra Leone
• Somalia
• South Africa
• Sudan
• Eswatini
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Tunisia
• Uganda
• Congo (democratic Republic)
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe
• Mayotte
• Réunion
• Saint Helena
• South Sudan

Area of benefit in its governing document: Sub-saharan Africa

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £823,655 and spent £813,548.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

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Income over time

Up 287%, from £212,977 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £823,655 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 99% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.

Money from government

31% of its income in the year to 31 March 2023 came from government grants and contracts (£69,652).

Largest funder

Welsh Government gave £363,944 in the year to 31 March 2025, 44% of that year's income.Read by AI from the charity's accounts.

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 31 March 2025: £363,944 from 1 grant. 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.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 March 2025, the charity named 13 funders who gave £789,041 between them. £673,074 of that came from public bodies.

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Funders that publish to 360Giving list 15 grants to this charity since 2019, worth at least £943,896.

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.

Public bodies' published spending shows 10 payments to this charity worth £872,500 between 23 May 2024 and 24 April 2026.

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Senedd and Welsh Government records that name this charity, gathered by OpenSenedd. Newest first.

• 6 December 2023

  Named by Nia Williams in the Senedd

  …in the operating model that we've adopted in terms of our engagement work, that is an exhibition that's been developed jointly with the Sub-Sahara Advisory Panel and jointly with the national museum producers, a group of young people between 18 and 24. We're working with them as activists within th…

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• 26 October 2022

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: Min for Economy

  Purpose: Hub Cymru Africa & Sub-Sahara Advisory Panel.

  Hub Cymru Africa & Sub-Sahara Advisory Panel

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• 9 November 2021

  Named by Jane Hutt in the Senedd

  …Wales-Africa community, I mentioned the diaspora, and we work very closely together with the Wales and Africa Health Links Network, the Sub-Sahara Advisory Panel and Fair Trade Wales, and, just to give you one example, last month, Hub Cymru Africa received £40,000 from the Wales and Africa programm…

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10 trustees run the charity.

• Donald Timothy Mlewa DrChairAppointed 18 April 2018
• Abisola BabalolaAppointed 28 October 2025
• Agnes Mwihaki lokoroAppointed 28 October 2025
• Donald Tatenda MutaleAppointed 11 December 2021
• Dr Eno Ekaete UsorohAppointed 28 October 2025
• Hannah Afoluke AdedapoAppointed 11 December 2021
• Molly Mwila SextonAppointed 11 December 2021
• Mutale Merrill OBEAppointed 5 December 2022
• Richmond Asante AppahAppointed 10 May 2023
• Tarig SanousiAppointed 27 January 2018

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

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

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Charity number

1159990

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

19 January 2015

Governing document

CIO - Association Registered 19 Jan 2015 as amended on 30 Nov 2023

Company number

08704204This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.ssap.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Cardiff

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Funding from accounts: the charity's filed accounts, read by OpenEconomy's AI accounts reader on 1 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Payments from public bodies: each body's own published spending data, matched to the charity by OpenEconomy. 5 public bodies' data is included so far.
• In the Senedd and Welsh Government: records gathered by OpenSenedd and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 5 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

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