About Turbo Ghana

Aims

Turbo Ghana is a micro charity whose aims are:

  • To relieve financial hardship in Ghana.

  • To improve health, in particular but not exclusively by providing safe and clean water.

  • To promote education, including but not exclusively by providing school materials, including laptops and phones.

Currently we are focussed on Aframano, a village in Ghana.

Donations, salaries, administration costs

When we raise money for specific donations, 100% of the money raised (including the element we recoup from Gift Aid) is spent on the project. We do not use any of that money for admin or other costs.

We don’t pay any salaries (we are too small to employ anyone). We do have some small admin costs related to accountancy, web hosting, regulation compliance, etc., but these are paid from donations by our trustees, not by money we raise for projects. Likewise, all the expenses incurred by our trustees (flights, accommodation, etc. for visits) are more than covered by donations from the trustees.

Registrations

Turbo Ghana is registered with the UK Charity Commission, and with HMRC for the purposes of Gift Aid. Turbo Ghana is also registered as a legal entity in Ghana, called “TG Ghana LBG”.

Board members

Mark Ryan
Mark Ryan is Professor of Computer Science at University of Birmingham. Before setting up Turbo Ghana, he worked with another charity in Ghana doing similar work. He visits Ghana once or twice a year to take first-hand responsibility for the work we do.
Michele Foot
Michele Foot has worked in administration in the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College, London, since 2004. She is also a trustee of E17 Puppet Project. Michele is interested in helping people achieve their goals and she has a Life Coaching Diploma.
Natasha Ryan
Natasha Ryan is with UNICEF Zimbabwe working on legal reform. During her time there she has worked extensively with several NGOs to deliver access to justice for children, and she has raised funds for Let’s Give Them Hope in Zimbabwe. She has also worked with Juventas Ungdomsjour, a women’s shelter and girls’ organisation in Sweden.
Kwasi Alare
Kwasi Alare is the Assembly representative of Aframano and its surrounding settlements. He was first elected by his community at the age of 23, and he has been re-elected a further three times since then. He is very well respected and liked by his community, and on behalf of that community he works tirelessly with Turbo Ghana. Kwasi is training to become an accountant.

PAD trusteeship

Turbo Ghana is participating as trustee in a computer science research project about data privacy and transparency.

Contact

Turbo Ghana is based in London and Birmingham, UK. You can send a message to info@turboghana.org.