ENTERPRISE FOR DEVELOPMENT

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Shareholders' funds

£554,761

Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31

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What it does

Achievements and PerformanceThe highlight of the year was the completion of first financial close for the Resonance Enterprise Investment fund, a groundbreaking social investment vehicle in the UK. EfD committed 100000 GBP as a Type 2 mezzanine investor alongside Ceniarth Foundation (300000 GBP) and Unity Trust Bank (1.2 million GBP), with additional support from Access Foundation grants and a British Business Bank guarantee. This investment marks a new chapter for EfD, extending our model of financially sustainable, scalable interventions to benefit those on lower incomes beyond Africa. The fund has already begun deploying capital to innovative UK social enterprises including EMERGE Recycling, Ivybridge Brewing Company, Impera Analytics, TLC Palliative, and Wolves Play Cafe.Although investing in the UK represents a departure from our traditional geographic focus, the investment is justified by the potential for learning that can be adapted to further EfD goals in Africa, while maintai

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Overview

Company type
PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)
Incorporated
2011-08-15
Employees
1 (2025 accounts)
Registered office
The Farm, Rettendon Place, Chelmsford, Essex, England, CM3 8DR
Postcode
CM3 8DR
Accounts category
Total Exemption Full

Accounts

Last made up to
2025-12-31
Next due by
2027-09-30
Financial year end
31 December

Confirmation statement

Last statement dated
2026-05-13
Next due by
2027-05-27
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Nature of business (SIC)

  • 82990 Other business support service activities not elsewhere classified

Officers 5 current · 3 resigned

Appointed 2021-04-22
Appointed 2020-01-01
Appointed 2017-03-02
Appointed 2011-08-15
Appointed 2011-08-15

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Registered charity

ENTERPRISE FOR DEVELOPMENT — charity number 1143851

Registered 2011-09-19 Income £128,883 Spending £64,285 FY to 2025-12-31

Source: Charity Commission for England and Wales register, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contact details

Website
enterprisefordevelopment.org

Enterprise for Development

Previous registered addresses 3

AddressChanged on
PEER HOUSE (C/O AGDEVCO) VERULAM STREET, GROUND FLOOR, LONDON, WC1X 8LZ, ENGLAND2017-08-07
C/O AGDEVCO - S. VILUS-COOPER, PEER HOUSE 4TH FLOOR, 8 14VERULAM STREET, LONDON, WC1X 8LZ2017-03-17
ST NICHOLAS HOUSE ST NICHOLAS ROAD, SUTTON, SURREY, SM1 1EL, UNITED KINGDOM2013-08-01

Among its peers

Top 10%

by shareholders' funds, of 1,835 similar companies in CM

Trading since 2011.

Competitors Chelmsford

This company ranks 153 among other business support service activities not elsewhere classified in Chelmsford.

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The class of 2011

21%

of the 24,629 companies in this sector incorporated in 2011 are still active today; 77% have since been dissolved.

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