About Turbo Ghana
Aims
Turbo Ghana is a micro charity whose aims are:
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To relieve financial hardship in Ghana.
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To improve health, in particular but not exclusively by providing safe and
clean water.
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To promote education, including but not exclusively by providing school
materials, including laptops and phones.
Currently we are focussed on several communities in the Ashanti region of Ghana. The communities are remote, and most of the community members farm crops for their own needs (and, if they have a surplus, they sell it at the market).
Donations, salaries, administration costs
From 2018 to 31 March 2024, every penny of money received from non-trustee donors (including any Gift Aid element) was spent directly on projects. That’s because all admin expenses (including flights and accommodation for monitoring, fundraising costs, government registration, banking, and website) were covered by donations from the trustees. Now that we are growing, this is harder to achieve. But we guarantee that for the year 2024/25, admin expenses will not exceed £5K or 7.5% of donations, whichever limit is smaller.
Registrations
Turbo Ghana is registered
with the UK Charity Commission, and with HMRC
for the purposes of Gift Aid.
Turbo Ghana trustees
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 has worked in administration in the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial
College, London, since 2004. She was a trustee of
E17 Puppet Project from 2013 to 2024.
Michele is interested in helping people achieve their goals and she has a Life
Coaching Diploma.
Natasha Ryan is advocating for women’s rights and representation of women in leadership positions at the Women’s Foundation in Hong Kong. Previously, she was with UNICEF in Zimbabwe, partnering with government partners and NGOs to deliver access to justice for children. During her time there, she raised funds for
Let’s Give Them Hope in Zimbabwe. She started her social justice work in 2006 with a women’s shelter and girls’ organisation in Sweden.
Christopher Williamson is a theoretical computer scientist and traveller who has worked with Turbo Ghana and its founder on several projects. He visited Ghana in 2025 and intends to return to continue learning about Ghanaian society.
Alex Swinton works in fundraising at
Dementia UK, and is a graduate of Social Anthropology from the University of Durham. His charity experience started at 16, as a volunteer for 42nd Street, and he has worked for and volunteered with multiple charities since, with a particular focus on health and education.
TG Ghana LBG
We are also registered as a separate legal entity in Ghana, called “TG Ghana LBG”.
The board members of TG Ghana LBG are: Mark Ryan, Michele Foot, Kwasi Alare, and Isaac Acheampong.
Kwasi Alare was the Assembly representative of Aframano and its surrounding settlements from 2011 to 2023. He was first elected by his community at the age of 23, and he was 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.
Isaac Acheampong has recently graduated from Ghana Muslim Mission school in Beposo. He wants to travel, and plans to apply to join the army in Ghana. He has supported Turbo Ghana by hosting visitors and introducing service providers. He has also taken many of the photographs on Turbo Ghana’s website.
PAD trusteeship
Turbo Ghana is participating as trustee in a computer science research
project about data privacy and transparency.
This website
This website is built using Hugo, with a lot of custom-made Go templating and CSS wrangling by our trustees ☻. The website doesn’t serve cookies, so we don’t need to annoy you with cookie warnings. The website doesn’t load any fonts, scripts, styles or anything else from any external website, so your viewing is not being tracked in any way.
Turbo Ghana is based in London and Birmingham, UK. You can send a message to
info at turboghana.org.
