Who We Are

The African Oyster Trust is a small charity founded and run by a small team of volunteers and helpers principally based in Warwickshire and the West Midlands.

All our funds are raised by individual and corporate donations and through fund-raising events – and all the money we raise goes directly to projects on the ground. 

We pride ourselves on not wasting money on unnecessary administration, with the majority of administration costs and responsibilities being covered by the unpaid directors, friends and volunteers.

The director board comprises:

• Lady Kira Dalton: a long-standing Trust director, Kira is the driving force behind our many projects in the Gambia.
  
• Steve Emery: a finance manager with a major British plc by profession, Steve has had a strong family involvement with the Trust since its earliest days.
• James Holden (chair): as founder of the Trust, James brings decades of entrepreneurial and business experience as well as his passion for the charity's mission.
  

Our Gambian management team comprises (left to right in photo):

• Ansumana Manjang: Clinical & Health.
  
• Sainey Dampha: Accounts & Finance.
• Kemo Bah:  Education & Secretary. 
• Fanding Manjang:​ General Manager.
  

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Among the other members of the team, Marc Sanderson manages this website on behalf of the Trust. 

To contact any of these individuals, please use the form on the contact us page in the first instance.

And to discover more about the founding of the African Oyster Trust, the people involved and the projects they support, you can also read Happy! Happy! Happy! the book written by Dee Bixley in 2015. Click here to read.

Lady Kira Dalton

Steve Emery

James Holden

Gambian Management Team

James Holden

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