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Annual Report and Financial Statements 2022–23

Ashinaga UK is part of the global Ashinaga Africa Initiative, which recruits high-potential orphaned youth across 49 African countries and supports them through international university degrees and leadership training. Their 2022–23 report covers 159 current scholars across the UK, Japan, France, Brazil and USA, with all 2022 graduates securing employment or further study. Scholar stories include a biomedical student from Sierra Leone who electrified his village and founded a non-profit, and a mining engineer from Benin sponsoring 100+ primary school students.

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International university scholarships for orphaned African youth, leadership development programme, tsudoi annual gathering, university partnership programmes, Rise and L'Oréal grant management, alumni support in Africa

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 £557,000+ secured in 2022–23, including £438,000 from university partners
Key Metric 2 159 current AAI scholars globally; 79 graduates by March 2023; 16 alumni active on the ground in Africa
Key Metric 3 88% of scholars at a top 500 university (THE); 67% achieved a 2:1 or higher; 33% achieved a First

Key Outcomes

  • All 2022 graduates secured employment or full scholarships for further study, including one Commonwealth Scholarship at University of Sussex
  • Scholar from Sierra Leone provided electricity access to 80% of his village and founded Young Africans Alliance Academy supporting 300+ school dropouts
  • Partnerships secured with Rise (Schmidt Futures/Rhodes Trust) for Ashinaga Uganda and L'Oréal for girls' education in Senegal; leadership programme delivered at University of Bristol for third consecutive year

Geography

International

Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
440,000+ young people aged 4-18 active members across 7,000 Groups
Key Metric 2
140,000 volunteers supporting the movement across the UK
Key Metric 3
373 Sections opened or re-energised in England between April 2024 and March 2025
0.3% overall growth in young people (ages 4-18), driven by 31% increase in Squirrel Scouts (5,200 young people)
Impact Snapshot
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55,000 foster carers and 370 fostering service providers as members across the UK
Key Metric 2
45 new Fostering Friendly Employers recruited, bringing the scheme to over 680,000 employees across the UK
Key Metric 3
95 Fostering Wellbeing Pioneers in Wales offering peer support and mentoring to fellow foster carers
191 children and young people engaged in outdoor adventure weeks through the Fostering Attainment and Achievement programme in Northern Ireland
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
91,000 young people supported across 24 countries in 2024/25, including 67,368 in the UK
Key Metric 2
Over 70% of the 25,500 young people who completed Employment and Enterprise programmes achieved a positive outcome
Key Metric 3
Education programmes engaged 63,000 young people (69% of the total), the largest share of delivery
In the UK, 71% of Employment and Enterprise completers achieved a positive outcome, including 39% into employment or self-employment
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
851 students supported through the In2STEM programme in 2024, from 2,036 applications
Key Metric 2
27,447 hours of in-person STEM placement experience provided to participants
Key Metric 3
94% of participants know what it means to work in STEM after the programme, up from 69% beforehand
97% of alumni who applied to university were successfully offered a place, based on UCAS data from 1,760 alumni